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Natural History Museum Smithsonian Institution National Mall Washington, D.C. United States Eleventh Most Visited Museum in The World

The National Museum of Natural History, administered by the Smithsonian Institution, is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and offers free admission. It was the most visited natural history museum in the world in 2016, with 7.1 million visitors, and houses over 145 million specimens across various categories. Opened in 1910, the museum features 1.5 million square feet of space and employs about 1,000 staff members, including 185 professional natural history scientists.

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Natural History Museum Smithsonian Institution National Mall Washington, D.C. United States Eleventh Most Visited Museum in The World

The National Museum of Natural History, administered by the Smithsonian Institution, is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and offers free admission. It was the most visited natural history museum in the world in 2016, with 7.1 million visitors, and houses over 145 million specimens across various categories. Opened in 1910, the museum features 1.5 million square feet of space and employs about 1,000 staff members, including 185 professional natural history scientists.

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The 

National Museum of Natural History is a natural history


museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located
on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has
free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2016, with 7.1
million visitors, it was the eleventh most visited museum in the
world and the most visited natural history museum in the
world.[2] Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was
one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to
hold the national collections and research facilities.[3] The main
building has an overall area of 1.5 million square feet
(140,000 m2) with 325,000 square feet (30,200 m2) of exhibition
and public space and houses over 1,000 employees.[3]
The museum's collections contain over 145 million
specimens[4] of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorit
es, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, the largest
natural history collection in the world.[5] It is also home to about
185 professional natural history scientists—the largest group of
scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history
in the world.

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