The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), located in Washington, D.C., USA, is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo.
The Department of Anthropology at the NMNH cares for over 2 million cultural artifacts in its ethnology and archaeology collections.
Visit the National Museum of Natural History on the web at http://www.mnh.si.edu/.
The RRN contains 6,033 items from the National Museum of Natural History. Items from the National Museum of Natural History have been available on the RRN since launch. Since then, their items have been viewed on the RRN 7,715,269 times. Data from the National Museum of Natural History was last updated April 13, 2025.