History The museum, like the United States National Museum known, opened its doors to the public on 17 March 1910 to provide the growing Smithsonian Institution with more space for collections and research. [2] The building, which was not fully completed until 1911, was designed by Hornblower & Marshall. [3] The building, designed in neoclassical style, was the first on the north side of the National Mall built along Constitution Avenue, as part of the 1901 McMillan Commission plan. In 2000, Kenneth E. Behring donated $ 80,000,000, the museum and in 1997 donated $ 20,000,000 to modernize it.
In addition to exhibits, the museum has large collections of reference and research institutions. In the online collections collections.nmnh.si.edu
In 2005, the "Butterfly of Peace" was first jewel in the USA [5] In 2008, displayed an exhibition of 5,000 square feet (460 m2) dedicated to soil and its life-sustaining properties. Opened
Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals
The National Gem and Mineral Collection is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. The collection includes some of the most famous pieces of gems and minerals, including the Hope Diamond and the Star Sapphire of Asia, one of the largest sapphires in the world. Currently there are over 15,000 individual pieces of jewelry in the collection, as well as minerals and 350 000 300 000 samples of rock and ore specimens. [7] In addition, houses the Smithsonian's National Gem and Mineral] Collection about 35,000 meteorites known as one of the largest collections of its kind in the world [7th To see the museum as the National Mall, the old post office building in the distance, visible
The collection is in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, one of the many galleries in the Museum of Natural History displayed. Some of the major donors Washington Roebling, the man, the Brooklyn Bridge, which gave 16,000 copies of the collection built, Frederick A. Canfield, the 9000 showed copies of the collection, and Dr. Isaac Lea, who donated the basis of the collection of the Museum in 1312 Gems and minerals.
Hall of Human Origins
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins opens on 17 March 2010, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the museum. The hall is for David H. Koch, $ 15,000,000, which contributed $ 20,700,000 exhibition.
The hall is dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins, "and takes 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of exhibition space. The samples include 75 replica skulls, an interactive human family tree that six million years of evolution follows, and a change of the World gallery, which focuses on issues surrounding climate change and humans' impact on the world. The exhibition is downplaying the importance has been criticized by human-induced global warming, in exchange for the money by Koch [8]. Koch Industries, a private company in the industry of petroleum and other fossil fuels and chemicals is an important contributor to the climate change disinformation
The exhibition also features a complementary website humanorigins.si.edu, the diaries and offers podcasts directly from related research areas. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch Design International.
Dinosaur / Hall of Paleobiology
The museum has over 570,000 cataloged reptiles from around the world. The National Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles has 300% over the last 40 years (190,000 records sample in 1970 to over 570,000 records sample in 2008). [11] The Hall of Dinosaurs has fossilized skeletons, casting models, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops before off with the "Triceratops exhibit the first accurate dinosaur skeleton displays in virtual movement, achieved through the use of scanning and digital technology." The collection consists of 46 "full and important specimens" of the dinosaurs. The website has a virtual tour of the collection.
Hall of Mammals
The Hall of Reich + Petch Behring mammals by design is an award-winning gallery. The design is innovative and inviting. The mammal specimens are as works of modern art in strikingly presented low environmental. Visitors discover mammal evolutionary adaptations to very different contexts, and finally discover that they are also mammals.
The museum houses the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, almost twice as large as the next largest mammal collections, including historically important collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. [16] The collection was of C. Hart Merriam, and directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (later the Department of the Interior), which expanded in the 1890s-1930s.
Insect Zoo
The Insect O. Orkin Insect Zoo features live and exhibits about insects and entomologists. Different habitats have been created, the kinds of insects that live in different environments and how they adapted to a freshwater pond, house, mangrove swamp, showing desert and rain forest. The zoo is sponsored by Orkin, a pest control company.
Ocean Hall
The Sant Ocean Hall was opened on 27 September 2008, and is the largest renovation of the museum since it opened in 1910. The hall includes 674 marine specimens and models from the more than 80 million copies in the Museum's collection as a whole, creates the largest in the world. The hall is named for Roger Sant family, which donated $ 15,000,000 to endow the new hall and other related programs.
The Hall consists of 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2) of exhibition space and offers a replica of a 45-foot (14 m) long North Atlantic Right Whale, a 1,500-gallon aquarium, a 24-foot (7.3 meter) female giant squid, an adult coelacanth, and a Basilosaurus
The museum also offers the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, a complementary website oceanportal.si.edu updated regularly, the original contents of the museum research and collections provides and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content from more than 20 collaborating organizations, including the expected ARKive, Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Encyclopedia of Life, IUCN, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Geographic, NOAA, New England Aquarium, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, Pew Charitable Trusts, SeaWeb, Save Our Seas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, World Heritage Marine Programme.
African Voices
This hall and associated site "examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of African peoples and cultures over time in the areas of family, work, community and natural environment." [19] [Edit] Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
With a Live Butterfly Pavilion allows visitors to the many ways in which butterflies and other animals have diversified further developed, adapted and, together with its partners on the plant tens of millions of years. " The exhibition was seen by Reich + Petch designed.
Western Cultures Hall
"This hall explores a few examples from different cultures in the western world including northern Iraq, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and the recent discovery of the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy found in an Italian glacier."
Gallery Korea
The Korea Gallery is a special display case for Korean traditions to celebrate and to examine its unique influence and complex role in the world today.
The exhibition brings the continuity of the past by highlighting permanent features of Korean culture, the influence and resonance today. The exhibition makes use of the Smithsonian collection, and a ceramic-rich contect of photographs, devotional objects and traditional Korean carpentry to communicate and connect to both the local community and Korea an international audience. speaking traditional art forms such as ceramics and calligraphy with mythological figures, language, large feature photos and illustrations, a fascinating range of common historical memories that connect Koreans at home and abroad.
Personal stories of modern Korean, as I said, in her own voice, provide a context for some of the many problems that face to discuss the divided country today. Korea's incredible transformation of 'The Hermit Kingdom "is traced back to a world power through its impact on the arts, business and popular culture. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch.
Osteology: Hall of Bones
This exhibition shows a "large number of vertebrate skeletons grouped by their evolutionary relationships."
Temporary Exhibitions Discovering Rastafari!
2nd November 2007 - November 2010
To be explored with artifacts, rare photos and memorabilia of the origins and religious practices of the movement in Jamaica, this exhibition takes viewers beyond the popular Jamaican music known as reggae to the deeper roots of the Rastafari culture. video footage to speak with first-person testimony from male and female Rastafari of different ages, nationalities, race and class backgrounds and Rastafari of unity and the spread of the movement in the Caribbean and beyond over the past three decades
Dig It! The Secrets of the Soil
19th July 2008, 3 January 2010 The world of fungi, bacteria, worms and other organisms, this exhibition draws connections between soils and everyday life[In Bone] Written edit: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake
7th February 2009 - 6 February 2011
This exhibition explores the history of the 17th Century by bone biographies, including those of the colonists staggers on the edge of survival in Jamestown, Virginia, and the rich and established individuals of the St. Mary's City, Maryland.
Builders: the hidden life of the ants
30th May 2009 - 10th October 2009 This exhibition features large-format photographs of ants in their daily business, a cast of a subterranean ant city, and a live ant colony
The museum has an IMAX theater for movies and the Discovery Room, a family-and student-friendly hands-on activities room on the first floor.
In the lower level there is a bird show with all migratory birds and domestic birds in
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