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Past Exhibits
Please note: This is not a comprehensive tour of all past exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History. This is a tour of only a selection of past exhibits at NMNH.
For the best touring experience, please read the complete set of virtual tour tips below. [PDF]
Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine

Birds of DC

Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization

Dig It! Secrets of the Soil

Evolving Universe

Genome

Iceland Revealed

Last American Dinosaurs

Mud Masons of Mali

Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

National Geographic: Into Africa

Nature's Best Photography Exhibits

Objects of Wonder

- Where Do We Get Our Collections?
- Tsimshian Painted House Front / What Do Collections Tell Us? / Dazzling Diversity of Bird Eggs
- Linking Natura and Culture
- Tsimshian Painted House Front / Celebrating Creativity
- Dazzling Diversity of Insects
- Dazzling Diversity of Insects / For the Record
- Our Collections are Vast and Growing
Orchid Exhibits

Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
- Outbreak Entrance / One World, One Health
- The International Spread of Disease
- Spillovers & Outbreaks: Nipah, Hanta, HIV/AIDS, SARS
- Responding to Outbreaks: Ebola / Global Pandemics: 1918 Influenzas Pandemic and HIV/AIDS
- Working Together
- Searching for Solutions: Smallpox
- Those Who Survive, Those Left Behind: HIV/AIDS and Ebola
- What's Now, What's Next: Do Humans cause Epidemics?
Q?rius Jr.

Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas

Western Culture

- Origins of Western Culture: Toolmaking, Cave Painting, Plant and Animal Domestication
- Ali Kosh: An Early Farming Community
- From Village to City: Metallurgy
- Metallurgy / Ötzi: Frozen in Time: The Iceman
- The State: Ancient Egypt (Mummies) and Mesopotamia
- The State: Ancient Egypt (continued)
- Trade and Empire: The Levant, the Mediterranean, Greece, and Rome
Wilderness 50


