Images documenting the construction of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History. In 1903 Congress authorized the Board of Regents to begin a new museum building, ...

Hours of exciting discoveries await at one of the biggest natural history museums on the planet.On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...