Past Exhibits | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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Please note: This is not a comprehensive tour of all past exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History. This is a tour of only a selection of past exhibits at NMNH.

Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine

Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine — Mine Rescue exhibit

Mine Rescue

Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization

ancient copper ingot from Cyprus — Ancient copper ingot from the Cyprus exhibit

Former Fossil Hall

Dinosaurs — Various dinosaurs from the old Fossil Hall

Genome

Reading Nature's Code — Display from the Genome exhibit

Iceland Revealed

photography exhibit Iceland Revealed — Iceland Revealed exhibit

Last American Dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus rex — Tyrannosaurus rex from the Last American Dinosaurs exhibit

Mud Masons of Mali

Entrance to Mud Masons of Mali exhibit — Mud Masons of Mali exhibit

Mud Masons of Mali

Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

Narwhal — Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

National Geographic: Into Africa

Display from Into Africa — Display from National Geographic: Into Africa

Nature's Best Photography Exhibits

Nature's Best Photography exhibit — Display from the 2012 Nature's Best Photography exhibit

Orchid Exhibits

Orchid display — Display from the 2008 Orchid exhibit

Q?rius Jr.

The Discovery Room — Display from Q?rius Jr.

Discovery Room

Soil

Soil display — Display of soils from the Soil exhibit

Universe

Universe photography exhibit — Photographs from the Universe exhibit

Western Cultures

Prehistoric men painting in a cave — Prehistoric cave painters from the Western Cultures exhibit

Wilderness 50

Wilderness 50 photography exhibit — Photographs from the Wilderness 50 exhibit

Written in Bone

Skeleton — Skeleton from the Written in Bone exhibit