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The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
The Natural History Building (as the National Museum of Natural History was originally known) opened its doors to the public on March 17, 1910, in order to provide the Smithsonian Institution with more space for collections and research. [17] The building was not fully completed until June 1911. [18]
The station is a part of the National Museum of Natural History, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C. Its purpose is to be a field station which will draw scientists and students from the Smithsonian and other institutions from around the world, in which they will investigate animals , plants , and physical processes ...
It opened with the first four pods, plus offices, labs, and plans to expand into two additional pods. [3] The fifth pod was dedicated in April 2007 at the east end of the MSC, and now houses all of the National Museum of Natural History's biological collections (25 million specimens) preserved in fluids, known as the "wet collections." [3]
The National Anthropological Archives is the third largest archive in the Smithsonian Institution and a sister archive to the Human Studies Film Archive.The collection documents the history of anthropology and the world's peoples and cultures, and is used in indigenous language revitalization.
Open cabinets highlighting Department of Entomology collections at the National Museum of Natural History. Photo by Chip Clark. The Department of Entomology is a research department and collection unit of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), located in Washington, D.C.
In 2012 Johnson was selected to lead the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., one of the Smithsonian Institution’s most popular museums on the National Mall. [6] He is the host of the PBS Nova series , Making North America , which is a three-part series that describes the shaping of North America, which aired on November 4 ...
The new tree, trimmed back to 3 feet (0.91 m) for transplantation, thrived in its new location. This tree is considered, popularly if not legally, to be the full heir of the original tree. As such, it is sometimes referred to as the Son of The Tree That Owns Itself , although it is generally known by the same title as its progenitor.