The story of World War II is too big for a single gallery, so this one focuses on land-based fighter aviation.

The plaza and sunken sculpture garden include approximately 80 contemporary sculptures.

This hall provides a glimpse of the Ice Age, one of the most extraordinary times in earth's history and features skeletons of some of the largest Ice Age mammals, including the woolly mammoth.

Hundreds of skeletons of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians are shown in characteristic poses.

The sculpture Daguerre Memorial by Jonathan Scott Hartley, honoring Louis Daguerre, one of the fathers of photography, is on view outside on the 7th Street side of the building.

See Gwenfritz by Alexander Calder on the northwest grounds and Infinity by Jose de Rivera outside the museum's Mall entrance.

Built in 1776, the gunboat Philadelphia is the oldest American fighting vessel in existence.

This hall follows the development of the increasingly efficient power machinery that helped the United States become a world leader during the Industrial Revolution.

This dollhouse and its 800 miniature furnishings represent a romantic view of the life of a large and affluent American family in the early 1900s.