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8 unusual facts about National Museum of Natural History


Enter Life

Featuring anthropomorphic amino acids and cells and a light-hearted touch, with music by Elizabeth Swados, the film has shown considerable durability, still being shown on continuous loop at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, which sponsored the original production.

Jesús E. Maldonado

In 1998, he joined the Smithsonian Institution where he worked at the Genetics Program for the National Zoological Park and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

Laurence Skog

From 1973 to 2003 Skog was a curator and research scientist in the Botany Department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Lecithocera dondavisi

The species is named after Donald R. Davis, curator of lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, United States, an authority on the microlepidoptera of the world.

Lynn G. Clark

As a high school student, Clark worked summers with grass expert Thomas Soderstrom at the National Museum of Natural History.

Marie-Hélène Sachet

In 1966, she commenced work at the Smithsonian Institution, rising to the position of curator of botany at the National Museum of Natural History.

Rykel de Bruyne

He worked for the "National Institute for Fisheries Research" (Rijks Instituut voor Visserij Onderzoek, RIVO) at the Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, the former "Geological Survey" (Rijks Geologische Dienst), the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) and the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) in Amsterdam.

Yoon Kwang-cho

His works have been shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and are part of the regular collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.


Chalk Emerald

The ring was donated by Mr. and Mrs. O. Roy Chalk to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in 1972 and is part of the Smithsonian's National Gem and Mineral Collection.

Cumberland Bone Cave

Skeletons of the Pleistocene Cave Bear and an extinct Saber-toothed cat from the Bone Cave are on permanent exhibit in the Ice Age Mammal exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Frère León

After Baker left Cuba, León corresponded extensively with Nathaniel Lord Britton at the New York Botanical Garden, grass specialists A. S. Hitchcock and Mary Agnes Chase at the United States Department of Agriculture, and fern specialist William Ralph Maxon at the United States National Museum.

Joseph Bruno Slowinski

He performed postdoctoral work at the National Museum of Natural History and Louisiana State University, eventually taking a position as a professor of biology at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Meredith Leam Jones

He accepted a position as an associate curator in 1964, in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology of the National Museum of Natural History.

National Anthropological Archives

It is located in the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland and is part of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.

Vietbocap thienduongensis

This species was found by Phạm Đình Sắc (Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), an organ under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)) and Wilson Lourenço (Paris Museum of Natural History – National Museum of Natural History) inside Thiên Đường Cave, a cave located in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Bình Province and they announced their discovery in Comptes Rendus Biologies.

William C. Sturtevant

He served first as a research anthropologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology before being appointed Curator of North American Ethnology in the U.S. National Museum (later the National Museum of Natural History), Smithsonian Institution.


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Cairns Glacier

The feature was named by US-ACAN (2006) after Stephen Douglas Cairns, research zoologist, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1985-2006; Board of Associated Editors, Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, 1990-95.

Herman the Bull

Together with cloned cows named Holly and Belle, he lived out his retirement at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.

Mihai Băcescu

He won a scholarship to France in 1939 and worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, at the Marine Biological Stations at Banyuls-sur-Mer and at Roscoff.

Pearl Maxima

Since its arrival in the Netherlands it has been on display only twice; the most recent time was from 19 December 2008 until 23 February 2009 in the National Museum of Natural History "Naturalis" in Leiden, the Netherlands.