Visit the American Trail, the Zoo's new home for seals, sea lions, and brown pelicans, which is modeled on the central California coast. Also located here are bald eagles, gray wolves, North American river otters, beavers, and ravens.

See Native American toys from all over North, Central, and South America and find out what life lessons and traditions they teach. 

Famous for her incisive photomontages, Barbara Kruger (American, b. Newark, NJ, 1945) creates this immersive site-specific piece that explores themes of democracy, doubt, and belief.

This banner exhibition highlights Native people who have been active participants in contemporary music for nearly a century.

See stereo-view (3-D) photographs from the Civil War to learn how Americans experienced the conflict.

Learn the ingredients essential for creating a successful urban bird habitat in your own backyard. 

View Korean tea bowls that were favored in the Japanese avant-garde tea ceremony known as wabicha.

Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists restore the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection.

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts by learning about the organization's history.

View interesting X-rays to learn how animals move, eat, and play.

Learn about the achievements of women in the late 18th century and see portraits of eight prominent American women of the period.

See more than 100 historic and cultural touchstones of American history from the museum’s vast holdings.

Studio portraits of Union military leaders from George McClellan and Ambrose Burnside to William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses Grant by photographer Mathew Brady are on view.

Learn about postal service aboard the Hindenburg and the Titanic, the largest flying and sailing post offices in history.

Learn about the history of snowboarding and see the Snurfer, one of the earliest snowboard prototypes.

View highly sophisticated ancient Iranian metalwork ranging from deep bowls to elaborate drinking vessels to objects in gold and silver.

See costumes worn by movie stars and other memorablia from Warner Bros. Studio.

Learn how mail travels from sender to recipient and how the process has changed over the last 200 years!

View two dozen dresses worn by former first ladies.

Learn about Egyptian burial ritual and cosmology and what they reveal about life in ancient Egypt.