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In the 2008 film Get Smart, the fictional spy organization CONTROL is located underneath the National Museum of Natural History. The giant squid from the National Museum of Natural History inspired the octopus that comes to life in 20th Century Fox's 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. [92]
View at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1909. The zoo first started as the National Museum's Department of Living Animals in 1886. [12] By an act of Congress on March 2, 1889, [13] [14] [15] for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people", the National Zoo was created.
[1] [2] [4] The Triceratops, named Uncle Beazley, becomes too big, so the boy brings him to the Smithsonian Institution. [2] Beazley is first kept at National Museum of Natural History, but is eventually transferred to the National Zoo's Elephant House because there is a law against stabling large animals in the District of Columbia. [1] [2]
National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center: Native American history and art: New York City Bowling Green: 1994 [19] [21] National Museum of Natural History: Natural history: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1858, 1911 [note 1] [22] National Portrait Gallery: Portraiture: Washington, D.C. Penn Quarter: 1968 [23] [24 ...
The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution. The project was initially led by Jim Edwards [4] and the development team by David Patterson.
The National Museum of Natural History, established in Paris in 1635, was the first natural history museum to take the form that would be recognized as a natural history museum today. [2] Early natural history museums offered limited accessibility, as they were generally private collections or holdings of scientific societies. [3]
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States , St. Pierre and Miquelon , Canada , Greenland , Bermuda , Mexico , Central America , and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants .
This is a list of natural history museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology. Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science.