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This exhibition shows how butterflies have evolved, adapted, and diversified with their plant partners over millions of years.

Stroll along the walkways in the Butterfly Habitat Garden to see four habitats of native plants that attract a variety of colorful butterflies spring through fall. 

This photographic exhibition highlights the behind-the-scenes research that advances scientific knowledge and inspires the museum's public educational programs.

Cheetahs can be seen engaged in natural behaviors in a grassland setting similar to their natural savanna habitat.

Learn about COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, one of the first computer-programming languages to run successfully on different brands of computers, in this case.

This exhibition features the oldest surviving Anglo-American star map, hand-drawn by Simeon De Witt, surveyor for George Washington.

Jointly prepared by the Smithsonian and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the exhibition presents the cultures of Alaska and Siberia from the end of the Ice Age Era to modern times.

The history of Cyprus is revealed through a rich collection of antiquities, many of which are traveling outside the country for the first time.

This exhibition introduces the study of soil science and demonstrates the vital role soil plays in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability.

All of the old favorites are on view in the exhibition hall -- Diplodocus, T. rex, and Triceratops -- and more.

With precise, up-to-date images captured by high-tech satellites, geologists, meteorologists, and other scientists can now study how the Earth changes from day to day and year to year.

This exhibition of 60 photographs focuses on the later years of Thomas Edison's career.

This exhibition reveals how Thomas Edison's incandescent electric light bulb and other inventions transformed our world. 

A 4.2-acre rooftop park, named for its donor, features an embroidered parterre in a geometric design of plants and flowers rotated seasonally.

Learn what scientists think our universe is like, how the present scientific view of the universe came to be, how our universe is being shaped today, and what mysteries remain.

This exhibition highlights the history and achievements of planetary exploration, both Earth-based and by spacecraft.

This exhibition provides a look at life from an ant's point of view through large-format photographs of ants going about their daily business, a cast of an underground ant city, and a live ant colony.

This exhibition reviews the early history of submarines and their radical transformation after World War II.

This exhibition explains the important role the atmosphere plays in our lives and in the environment by examining its evolution and properties and its effects on plants, animals, and people.