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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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...
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Global Natural History Initiative Builds Groundbreaking Database To Address 21st-Century Challenges

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...
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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 History after 14 years in the role, as he prepares to join the Denver Museum of ...