See Article from Smithsonian describing the new exhibit. Highlights: The new hall, The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time, was created from a $35 million gift from David H. Koch. The new hall brings back the nation’s T. rex, now the centerpiece of a new 31,000-square-foot fossil hall. The exhibition is a journey through […]
Each year it is a tradition for me to go down to the Title Basin and take pictures of the cherry blossoms. This year I decided that I didn’t want to push and shove to get a few pictures! So it meant that I had to see the blossoms before they were fully in bloom. […]
With temperatures in the units this week, the Potomac River and the Tidal Basin were frozen over. After freezing to get some of these pictures, we spent the day in the Sackler and Freer Galleries (and mad a couple quick stops in the Hirshhorn and Air and Space Museums).
President Lincoln’s Cottage is a National Monument, National Historic Landmark, and site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It receives no federal operating support and is not operated by the National Park Service. Instead President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, a public charity runs the site.