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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Highlights: Must-See Features and Attractions
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The National Museum of Natural History is located on the north side of the National Mall. It is one of the 16 museums in the Smithsonian museum system. Since its opening in 1910, it has collected more than 120 million exhibits, ranging from primitive dinosaur fossils to early human origins. Cultural relics, rare animal specimens and precious mineral gems around the world have well preserved the heritage of natural science and human culture. 1. The symbol of the museum - The African Wild Elephant Museum collects and exhibits various and precious animal specimens. The layout is so careful that even the living environment of the animals is truly reproduced, trying to restore the lifelike natural biological chain. Among them, the African wild elephant specimen in the center of the hall on the first floor is very large. This specimen vividly restores its original appearance on the African grassland, and is regarded as the symbol of the National Museum of Natural History. There are also separate themed pavilions for mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects and marine life. 2. The treasure of the town hall - the blue diamond "Hope Star" is located in the mine and gemstone exhibition hall on the second floor. It is famous for the blue diamond "Hope Star", which flashed by in the movie "Titanic" But left an indelible impression on the world. Rough diamonds that once weighed more than 112 carats were cut into blue diamonds that now weigh 45 carats. Once this so-called "cursed diamond" has been around the world for nearly 300 years, now it brings more than 100 million visits to the museum every year.
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Reviews: Insider Insights and Visitor Experiences
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One of the most beautiful Natural History Museum. There are a lot to see.
Running to the Smithsonian's Asian Museum, I happened to see the Wumen Painting School that I had always wanted to see. The "Chibi Fu" and "Martyrdom" written by Wen Zhengming are here. The bottom floor is the choir singing. The open atrium has sunlight and pools flowing. The sun is strong. The water waves are gentle, covered with white clouds, and this is what we call the light of humanism.
The Smithsonian Museum in the United States is the largest national museum in the United States, many of these museums are set up in the capital, Washington, most are free, and the exhibitions are constantly replaced, so there are often new things to see.
This museum is the largest natural history museum in the country. It contains numerous precious treasures, mineral specimens and natural compounds. The most regrettable thing is the hundreds of carats of town hall treasure - Sapphire Ocean Star.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is the largest museum of natural history in the world. There are museums, evolutionary history and Paleontology (e.g. ancient mammoths and dinosaurs). There is a physical exhibition of various minerals. The treasure of Zhenguan is a huge sapphire.
Exhibits include all kinds of animal specimens, mineral specimens, human skulls, dinosaur fossils... Museum of the popular supernet. Especially the famous gems and minerals in the exhibition hall, European royal jewelry, Napoleon gave the queen the crown and necklace, transparent, blue, yellow diamonds, sapphires larger than eggs, rubies, emeralds, cat eyes, pearls, crystals, are blind. The treasure of the town hall hopes that the most dazzling baby in the whole hall will be placed in a conspicuous position at the entrance, and it will slowly rotate in the large glass cabinet. I didn't bring a camera that day, and my mobile phone was shooting at it, and I couldn't catch the dazzling scene. I am most impressed that even two or three-year-old babies in strollers are pushed by adults. Visiting museums is a way of life for many Americans. Since it is impossible to visit the wild animals in the world in person, visit the Nature Museum, observe from multiple angles at close range, understand the earth's creatures, and establish the awareness of loving the earth from a young age, which is worth learning from domestic parents. The museum has free wifi, which is a unified signal for the Smithsonian Institution museum group. It can also be found outdoors, but it is easy to break after the distance is far away.