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New: The Lost Amazon: Exploring Plants and Understanding Cultures (new title)
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April 17, 2008 - Oct. 2008 (TBA)
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Black-and-white photographs of the Amazon River and adjacent regions -- including portraits of people, landscapes, and plants -- taken in the field in the 1940s by Dr. Richard Evans Schultes bring together natural history science and photographic art. Schultes was one of the most important ethnobotanists of the 20th century.
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New: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
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February 15, 2008 - New Permanent
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This exhibition shows how butterflies have evolved, adapted, and diversified with their plant partners over millions of years. Housed within this exhibition is be a special Butterfly Pavilion where visitors can walk among hundreds of live butterflies and pesticide-free plants to observe butterfly behaviors ranging from flying and sipping nectar at flowers to roosting and emerging from chrysalides. These butterflies will hatch from pupae raised on farms in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
Note: To maintain an environment conducive for butterflies, the temperature inside the Pavilion will be 80-85 degrees with high humidity.Note: On Sat., May 10, the Butterfly exhibition will open to the public at 12:15 PM due to a special event. Butterfly Pavilion Ticketing:
To cover operating costs and for crowd control, timed tickets for admission will be required daily. Timed tickets for entry on Tuesdays are free; see below for details.
• First timed ticket entry at 10:15 AM; last timed ticket at 5 PM.
• On heavy visitation days, line forms within the exhibition.
• Free Tuesdays:
Free, timed, same-day tickets required for individuals and groups and are distributed beginning at 10 AM on the day of visit only at the special Box Office within the exhibition. There is no limit to the number of tickets requested, but only 40 tickets are distributed for each 15-minute time slot. There must be one adult for every 10 children or students. • Individual tickets available as follows:
-- $6.00 Adults
-- $5.00 Youths (ages 2-12)
-- $5.50 Seniors (60+)
-- $5.00 Members: National, Resident, Contributing, Air and Space/Society members "in person" with valid membership card (limit 4 tickets per person)
-- $5.00 Add-an-IMAX Show (when purchasing a Butterfly ticket at full price) • Group tickets available by phone only: 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM)
-- $5.00 Groups of 10 or more, no complimentary tickets
-- $4.50 Groups of 10 or more with advance reservations (1 complimentary ticket allowed per 20 paid)
• Payment Options:
Cash, personal checks with proper I.D., travelers checks, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, JCB, and VISA. • Ticket Sales (Same Day and Advance):
Tickets can be purchased same day and up to 2 weeks in advance (except Tuesdays, see above) as follows:
-- In Person: At any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office and special Box Office within the exhibition
-- By Phone: Call 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM). A small handling fee applies.
-- By Web: At butterflies.si.edu/tickets. A small handling fee applies
• Pickup of Pre-Paid Tickets at Box Office:
Note: No tickets will be mailed, but can be picked up as follows:
-- Pre-paid tickets (same day or advance) for individuals or groups can be picked up at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office or special Box Office within the exhibition
Free brochure (available TBA)
See Smithsonian magazine, Dec. 2007, "From the Secretary" (p. 28) and Feb. 2006 (p. 10) Photography permitted
Wheelchairs permitted in Pavilion, but no strollers allowed
Web: www.butterflies.si.edu
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New: Research Case: Extinction of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper
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January 15, 2008 - May 30, 2008
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The Hawaiian Islands were one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans. The first people arrived on the islands between 1,300 and 1,000 years ago and brought major ecological changes: Forests were cleared for agriculture, and more recently, non-native species have been introduced, including the mongoose (which eats birds) and the mosquito (which carries avian malaria). These changes have led to the decline of Hawaiian native birds; at least 55 species have gone extinct since the arrival of humans. The Hawaiian honeycreepers exemplify this decline. Objects on view include:
• a specimen of a Hawaiian honeycreeper, Kaua'i'Akialoa (Hemignathus procerus), last seen alive in the 1960s
• an image of examples of Hawaiian honeycreepers
• a book about Hawaiian birds from 1890-99
• a journal article about a newly identified extinct honeycreeper from 2003
• an image of museum scientist Helen James, Division of Birds
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New: Nature's Best 2007 Photography Awards: Windland Smith Rice International Awards
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October 30, 2007 - April 27, 2008
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On view are winners in 15 categories from the 2007 Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice Awards and winners in 9 categories from the National Wildlife Photography Awards. The awards honor the best amateur and professional nature photographers from around the world.
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New: Mexican Cycles: Festival Images by George O. Jackson de Llano
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September 26, 2007 - April 20, 2008 (new closing date)
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On view are approximately 150 color photographs of the religious festivals of 30 Indigenous communities from across Mexico taken by the Mexican-American photographer George O. Jackson de Llano between 1990 and 2001. These dramatic images illustrate the diversity of these festivals at the turn of the 21st century and the complex interplay of Indigenous and European cultural traditions expressed through them.
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June 8, 2007 - Indefinitely
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To celebrate the country's distinctive art, culture, and 2,000-year history, on view are some 85 objects, including Korean ceramics, wooden furniture, stone and wooden sculptures, paintings, and textiles.
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November 19, 1999 - Permanent (Refurbished)
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In an updated and refurbished diorama, the museum's African elephant is in a setting that re-creates the Angolan bush. Important ideas in botany, entomology, mineral sciences, and zoology, as well as information on the ancestors of modern-day elephants and the elephants' importance in African cultures, are discussed.
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December 15, 1999 - Permanent
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This exhibition examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work, community, and the natural environment. Included are historical and contemporary objects from the museum's collections, as well as commissioned sculptures, textiles, and pottery. Video interactives and sound stations provide selections from contemporary interviews, literature, proverbs, prayers, folk tales, songs, and oral epics.
Web: www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices
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Dinosaurs: Reptiles: Masters of Land
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December 4, 1981 - Permanent
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On view in the exhibition hall are all of the old favorites, such as the gigantic 90-foot long Diplodocus, the horned Triceratops, and the Stegosaurus model. Attractions include "Quetzalcoatlus," a huge dragon-like pterosaur with a 40-foot wingspan, posed in flight; and the fierce, meat-eating "Antrodemus" (also known as Allosaurus)--ten feet tall and 20 feet long, in full stride.
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Fossil Mammals: Mammals in the Limelight
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May 30, 1985 - Permanent
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This exhibition focuses on the spectacular evolution of mammals as the dominant class of vertebrates following the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
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Fossil Plants and Animals: The Conquest of Land
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April 17, 1980 - Permanent
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This exhibition focuses on the earliest plants and animals to evolve the complex adaptations needed to live on land. In an animated video, evoking television coverage of the first lunar landing, characters Frank Anchorfish and Arthur Pod explain the characteristics plants and animals needed to pioneer the harsh, dry terrestrial environment. Just beyond an arbor formed by a diorama of the first forests are still more fossils: specimens of a 16-foot fossil of an early tree, Callixyon; other fossil trees and smaller plants from the ancient coal forests of North America.
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May 18, 1990 - Permanent
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Fantastic marine fossils tell the story of evolution and extinction in the seas in three acts: the Paleozoic Era (540 to 250 million years ago), when odd prehistoric creatures such as trilobites abounded; the Mesozoic Era (250 to 65 million years ago), when marine reptiles such as mososaurs appeared; and the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to today), when the numbers and kinds of shelled animals increased, and when the primitive whale Basilosaurus took to the seas.
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- Permanent
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Hundreds of skeletons of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes -- ranging from the gigantic extinct Stellar sea cow to the tiny pocket mouse -- are shown in characteristic poses and grouped by order to illustrate their relationships. Exhibits show how bone structures evolved in adaptation to environment.
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Life-size displays illustrate the eating habits, defenses, and locomotion of a variety of snakes and amphibians. Reptiles on view include a preserved king cobra, reticulated python, and boa constrictors from the Malayan and Amazonian jungles; Galapagos marine iguanas; sea turtles; crocodiles; and lizards.
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The institutions, traditions and ideals of North American cultures are deeply rooted in those of western Asia, northern Africa, and Europe. This hall explores some examples from various cultures in the western world including northern Iraq, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and the recent discovery of the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy found in an Italian glacier.
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Last update: May 7, 2008, 10:58
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