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National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Director Kirk Johnson To Depart for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Kirk Johnson announced today that he will step down as the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Fall at the National Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs, Neanderthals and Elmo!

Learn about the history of humans’ taste for tuna, Yellowstone’s iconic bison and much more at the museum this October and November ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Natural History Objects Represent Your State? You Can Find Out in This New Exhibition of More Than 600 Specimens and Artifacts

Inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is a room that brings together objects from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and five territories. In the stunning collection are a Menominee ...

Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down

Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by ...

Fashion & feather fashion show takes flight at Cleveland Museum of Natural History

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Bird feathers are the inspiration for a fashion show coming to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Friday, Oct. 2. The museum and Kent State University’s School of Fashion are ...
Science Friday

Are natural history museums going extinct?

The country’s oldest natural history museum, in Philadelphia, has closed its doors to visitors. Will other museums follow?

Harvard's Museum of Natural History cares for 26 million specimens; new exhibition brings dodo, extinct toad and 300-million-year-old fern into view

Tomorrow's Discoveries,’ brings some of the rarest, oldest and most beautiful of them into public view, many for the first ...