Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t ...

While the opening of the Hall of Human Origins was linked to the museum’s historic building, the exhibition’s impact has extended far beyond the National Mall over the past 15 years.

Paleobiologists at the Smithsonian study fossil animals, plants, and single-celled organisms to understand the biological and environmental history of Earth. The National Fossil Collection at the ...