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Washington –Tourist Attraction
National Museum of Natural History

Verified: Nastas Natalia

Elaborated: Ionascu Nicoleta

Chișinău 2021.
 National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum
administered by the Smithsonian
Institution, located on the National
Mall in Washington. It has free
admission and is open 364 (three
hundred and sixty-four)days a year. In
2016, with 7.1 million visitors, it was
the eleventh most visited museum in
the world and the most visited natural
history museum in the world.

Opened in 1910, the museum on

the National Mall was one of the
first Smithsonian buildings
constructed exclusively to hold the
national collections and research
facilities three hundred and sixty-
four

The museum's collections contain

over 145 million specimens[4] of
plants, animals, fossils, minerals,
rocks, meteorites, human remains,
and human cultural artifacts, the
largest natural history collection in
the world. It is also home to about
185 professional natural history
scientists—the largest group of
scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history in the
world.

The Smithsonian
Institution began
collecting natural
history in 1838
and continued to
collect it as a gift..
Natural history
appeals to all
ages and there
are so many
artifacts that you
can't see them all
in one visit.
Dinosaur exhibits are fascinating and wonderful for children but it has
a lot to intrigue all ages.