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The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute, but it’s also a museum complex that features some of the world’s most interesting exhibits. These are the top nine things you must do while you’re there.
Visit the Norman Rockwell exhibit, which features 50 paintings from the collections of famous movie directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Design a winning kite and compete in the Annual Smithsonian Kite Festival. It’s a beautiful display to watch and the engineering required to win is deserving of a place at the Smithsonian.
Follow Peter Solomon, the latest character from Dan Brown, and try to find your inner sleuth. While you’re pretending to be the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, you can venture across the nation’s capital and even try to debunk some of the popular myths about the Smithsonian Institution.
Gather with one million of your closest friends at the National Mall for the Smithsonial Folklife Festival. It’s more than two weeks designated towards the exploration of other cultures, and attendees are allowed the opportunity to immerse themselves in different cultures.
Use a Smithsonian exhibition as your inspiration to draw up an elaborate proposal, just like Captain Rob Plagmann.
Check out discoveries made by people just like you. A young girl who was visiting Dinosaur Park in Maryland found a vertebra; that discovery is now on display at the Smithsonian.
Look up into the heavens from a vantage point you’ve likely never seen. Check out the public observatory located in the National Air and Space Museum, which is part of the complex of museums at the Smithsonian Institution. This exhibit is most popular in the summer because the skies are clear.
Walk through the newest hall, the Hall of Human Origins, located inside the Natural History Museum. This section aims to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human?”
Check out the Hope Diamond, which has been part of the museum for 50 years.