1. The Smithsonian Museums in Washington, DC
Oh The Places You’ll Go!
Summer trip 2014

2. What is the Smithsonian?

3. Castle Building Completed in 1855 Home of the Welcome Center
Museum Store located here too

4. Specimens inside the Castle include:
BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION:
29 - Western Indian Ocean
COLLECTOR:
Paul C. Lemon
PLACE:
Valley running through Botanical Garden, Victoria., Seychelles, Africa
COLLECTION DATE:
4 Jan 1972
SPECIMEN COUNT: 1
RECORD LAST MODIFIED:
22 Mar 2016
COMMON NAME:
double coconut
Coco-de-Mer
TAXONOMY:
Plantae Monocotyledonae Arecales Arecaceae
PUBLISHED NAME:
Lodoicea maldivica (J.F. Gmel.)

5. Interesting sea shells and bones:

6. Art Galleries Like the Freer Gallery
The Smithsonian Institution has two museums of Asian art: the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
The Freer Gallery houses one of the premier collections of Asian art, with objects dating from Neolithic times to the early 20th century, as well as the world's most important collection of works by James McNeill Whistler.

7. Asian Art in rooms chromologically:

8. Freer and Whistler Who was Charles Freer?
He was a tough businessman who became fabulously wealthy, and he enriched the nation with his gift of a stupendous art collection. 
Whistler’s White Symphony, Three Girls

9. Whistler’s Mother

10. Museum of Natural History
Live Butterflies and plants
Mummies
Live Coral Reef
The HOPE DIAMOND
Lions and elephants
Human Origins

11. Life Sized Animal Exhibits
Three floors of exhibits

12. Whale Food
The base of the entire marine food web.

13. Dinosaurs

14. Fossils and Bones
Evidence of Evolution

15. Dinosaur Shark: Megalodon

16. Ancient Sea Creatures

17. Life Sized-Elephants How big is an elephant?
largest elephant was an adult male African elephant who weighed approximately 24,000 pounds and stood 13 feet tall at the shoulder

18. Bats Close up: Explore Collections from the smallest bat:
Craseonycteris thonglongyai
To the largest bat:
Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox

19. Lots of real stuffed animals to look at

20. Real life-like Predator Prey Scenes
How tall is a giraffe?
14 to 17 feet tall

21. Hominid Skull Collection
Every detail of the skull and where it was found is recorded.
Cladogram showing common ancestors.

22. The World Now and Then Our Current Population at that moment.
More skulls of the hominids.

23. There were many different hominids that existed in time.
We are the surviving species of these hominids.

24. How are we different?
Our brains have gotten larger and our jaws have gotten smaller.

25. Study the brains in the brain cases.
Meet your ancestors.

26. Human Origins Explored and Explained

27. Your Family Tree with our common anscestors.

28. See where you are in the tree of life.

29. Lepidoptera Exhibit
Live Butterflies
Live cocoons

30. First of three Floors

31. Egyptian Exhibit is next to the Butterfly Pavilion.
Real Mummy Cats
Real butterflies you can touch.

32. Each Butterfly is unique
Each Butterfly is unique. They eat different types of food and have specific markings.

33. Butterfly Learning Center

34. The Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian is a must see for any science fan.

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