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African Bush Elephant & Rotunda

Henry the Elephant in the Rotunda — African Bush elephant in the Rotunda

African Voices

African chess board, stringed musical instrument, and ceramics — A selection of artifacts from the African Voices exhibit

Bone Hall

Marsupial and Hominid skeletons in cases — Skeletons from the Bone Hall

Butterfly Pavilion

butterfly poster and plants — Inside the Butterfly Pavilion

Cellphone: Unseen Connections

"Cellphone: Unseen Connections" Exhibit Virtual Tour Sample — Giant cellphones greet visitors to the exhibit

Constitution Avenue Entrance & Ground Floor

Scene from the Ground Floor Museum Shop

David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time

Tyrannosaurus rex biting a Triceratops — Tyrannosaurus rex attacking a Triceratops

David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins

Lucy the Australopithecus hominid — Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis

Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt

Painted mummy in a sarcophagus — Mummy from the Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt exhibit

Garden Lounge

Enjoy plants and recharge yourself while recharging your mobile devices. — Garden Lounge with plants, seating, and charging stations, where you can recharge your mobile devices and yourself

Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals

diamonds and sapphires — Precious gems

Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals

African lions — A pride of African lions and their prey

Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky

night landscape with halo of stars with image credit Babak Tafreshi, TWAN — Night landscape with halo of stars. © Babak Tafreshi, TWAN

O. Orkin Insect Zoo

Insects and their terrestrial relatives — A variety of arthropods: Insecta (insects), Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks), Chilopoda (centipedes), Diplopoda (millipedes) and Crustacea (sowbugs, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, and barnacles)

Q?rius, the Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center / Q?rius jr.

Study collections — Study collections in Q?rius

Sant Ocean Hall

Right whale — Phoenix the Right Whale

Museum Grounds

Natural History Museum Grounds — NMNH Grounds