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The Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846 ". It is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government.

Research centers:
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the associated Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Carrie Bow Marine Field Station (Natural History Museum)
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Center For Earth and Planetary Studies (Air and Space Museum)
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (National Zoo)
Marine Station at Fort Pierce (Natural History Museum)
Migratory Bird Center (National Zoo)
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Latino Center
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

Search highlights:
Potteries
Postage Stamps
American Art
Plains Indians
Southwest Indians
Southeast Indians

Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Greeley Abbot
Alexander Wetmore
Leonard Carmichael
Sidney Dillon Ripley
Robert McCormick Adams
Ira Michael Heyman
Lawrence M. Small
G. Wayne Clough

Contact:
Smithsonian Institution
1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC, United States ‎
+1 202-633-1000 ‎

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Old February 17th, 2015, 12:52 PM
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The Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846. This is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government.

Events Calendar

Time Event
IMAX Films
9:45am Special Members' Behind-the-Scenes Castle Tour
10am Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators (throughout the day)
10am Q?rius
10am Ride Simulators (throughout the day)
10am Flight Simulators: Fly or Ride! (throughout the day)
10am Flight Simulators: SpaceWalk or Wings (throughout the day)
10am imagiNATIONS Activity Center
10am Lelawi Theater - Who We Are
10:15am CANCELED - Butterfly Pavilion
10:15am Highlights Tours
10:30am Docent - led Tour
10:30am Interactive Carts (10:30am - 3:00pm)
10:30am Spotlight Tours (10:30am - 3:00pm)
10:30am Highlights Tour
10:30am Exhibition Tour: Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College
10:30am Highlights Tour
10:30am Castle Highlights Tour
10:30am ANIMATION CELEBRATION! 2015
11am Amazon Fish Feeding
11am Bird Enrichment Demonstration
11am Elephant Training Demo
11am Meet a Farm Animal*
11am Meet-a-Panda Keeper
11am Orangutans given access to the O-Line*
11am Highlights Tour
11:15am Hok-Noth-Da for Families
11:15am Seal or Sea Lion Talk and Feeding
11:15am Tour: Freer Highlights
11:30am Meet a Great Ape Keeper
11:30am Hall of Human Origins Tour
11:30am Live Tarantula Feedings
11:45am Highlights of the Portrait Gallery
11:45am ANIMATION CELEBRATION! 2015





List of Smithsonian museums

Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Part of the National Museum of Asian Art along with the Freer Gallery of Art)
Arts and Industries Building
Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
Museum Mile
Freer Gallery of Art (Part of the National Museum of Asian Art along with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Air and Space Museum
National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of American History
National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center
Bowling Green
National Museum of Natural History
National Portrait Gallery
Penn Quarter
National Postal Museum
NoMa
Renwick Gallery
Lafayette Square
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Penn Quarter
Smithsonian Institution Building
National Zoological Park (National Zoo)
Rock Creek Park

Address:
Smithsonian Institution

1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC, United States ‎
+1 202-633-1000

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