In the world's largest and most popular natural history museum, you can touch the tooth of a saber-toothed tiger, be dazzled by a $250 million dollar blue diamond, and discover what you'd look ...

Director Kirk Johnson explains what goes on behind the scenes at the world’s largest natural history museum Abigail Eisenstadt Abigail Eisenstadt Abigail Eisenstadt Abigail Eisenstadt Abigail ...

Kirk Johnson is the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History where he oversees the world’s largest natural history collection. The museum hosts more than 6 million ...

With some 38 million specimens on hand (only a fraction of which are on display), the museum has the largest natural history collection in Europe behind those in Paris and London. Don't miss the ...

With over one million specimens and representing 95% of bird species, the bird collections are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Our bird collections span the entire history of ...