Sunday, February 1, 2009
National Museum of Natural History
I spent a few hours at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History yesterday and because the museum is so large and I wanted to take my time looking at the exhibits, I only saw about a fifth of it.
The gemstones and minerals exhibit featured the Hope Diamond, and I saw a large sheet of copper that could coat more than 2 1/2 million pennies. It was recovered in 1985 and is one of few that have ever been found, all of which were found in northern Michigan.
The great thing about D.C. is that all federal museums, and there are many of them, have free admission, seven days a week. My goal is to see all of them at least once while I'm here.
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