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To celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the museum showcases the rarely exhibited White House's copy of the Gettysburg Address.

Mei Xiang and Tian Tian can be seen in his habitat wrestling in the grass, sleeping in a tree, munching on stalks of bamboo, or lounging in a misty grotto. 

This exhibition is home to western lowland gorillas and orangutans.

See living, breathing, roaring Sumatran tigers and African lions and learn more about these endangered animals.

This interactive gallery explains the basic principles of air and space flight through hands-on activities.

See 55 dresses and more than 200 related items from the Plains, Plateau, and Great Basin regions in this exhibition of Native women's identity through traditional dress and its contemporary evolution.

The Insect Zoo focuses on live insects and their relationships with plants, animals, and humans.

This exhibition focuses on the similarities between the ways children and adults play and the creative skills and processes used by inventors.

This exhibition is home to dozens of invertebrate species -- the most abundant creatures on earth -- from sea stars to spiny lobsters, to giant African millipedes, to tarantulas, to a giant Pacific octopus.

This child-friendly exhibition reveals that most of the food we eat comes from a farm and allows visitors to lend a hand around the farm.

Travel to four continents to see some 274 mammals in lifelike poses in their natural habitat and learn about what they share in common and what makes them unique.

This gallery features famous airplanes and spacecraft that exemplify the major achievements in the history of flight.

Faced with the challenge of moving the mail quickly, the postal service looked to trains, automobiles, airplanes, and buses to deliver the mail.

Visit some of the newest members of the Zoo family.

Portraits of aviator Amelia Earhart tell the story of her career and pay special attention to her work on behalf of women's rights.

This exhibition on innovative book design highlights movable, pop-up, folding, and multiple-construction books from the year 1570 to the present day.

For both the serious collector and those who know little about the renowned hobby of stamp collecting, this gallery highlights some of the best philatic collections in the world.

Through objects, photographs, and video presentations, Playful Performers is the first exhibition to look at children's masquerades in Africa.

 Living plants, butterflies, and bees are used to explore pollination.

On view for the first time is the Smithsonian's own crystal skull.