National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) 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. with 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the most-visited museum in the United States.

This article is about the museum in Washington, D.C. For the museum in New York City, see American Museum of Natural History. For national museums in other countries, see National Museum of Natural History (disambiguation).
"NMNH" redirects here. For other uses, see NMNH (disambiguation).

National Museum of Natural History
Main facade
Established1910 (1910)
LocationNational Mall in Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates38.8913°N 77.0259°W / 38.8913; -77.0259
TypeNatural history museum
Collection size146,000,000 specimens
Visitors
  • 4,400,000 (2023)
  • 573,000 (2020)
  • 4,200,000 (2019)
  • 4,800,000 (2018)
DirectorKirk Johnson
Employees427
Public transit access at Federal Triangle
Websitenaturalhistory.si.edu

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. 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.

The museum's collections contain over 146 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, the largest natural history collection in the world. 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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