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The
Smithsonian
National
Museum
of
Natural
History,
located
on
the
National
Mall,
was
opened
in
1910
exclusively
to
house
the
national
collections
and
research
facilities.
Today,
the
Museum
main
building
is
1.5
million
square
feet,
houses
over
1000
employees,
and
has
collections
facilities
and
research
stations
world
wide.
With
a
growing
number
of
interactive
websites,
the
Museum
is
evolving
into
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The
San
Diego
Natural
History
Museum
traces
its
roots
to
a
group
of
amateur
naturalists,
who
formed
the
San
Diego
Society
of
Natural
History
in
1874.
Today
the
Museum
strives
to
help
visitors
interpret
the
natural
world
through
research,
education
and
exhibits.
Active
research
in
scientific
field
work
and
systematics
has
been
ongoing
since
the
Societies
inception,
and
current
fields
of
interest
include
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The
Birch
Aquarium
is
the
public
exploration
center
for
the
Scripps
Institution
of
Oceanography
at
University
California
at
San
Diego.
The
Aquarium
offers
a
full
spectrum
of
sea
life
exhibits,
gallery
exhibits,
annual
expeditions
to
the
Amazon,
and
interpretive
dives
where
divers
discuss
the
health
and
beauty
of
San
Diego's
ocean
ecosystem.
Exhibits
include
Earthquake!
Life
on
a
Restless
Planet,
Wonders
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The
guides
give
teachers
the
background
to
make
sense
of
regional
and
local
geology
in
terms
of
a
basic
sequence
of
historical
events
and
processes.
The
guides
help
teachers
to
meet
national
and
state
science
standards
by
providing
concrete
examples
of
geologic
processes
that
are
closer
to
home
than
many
classic
textbook
examples.
The
guides
explain
why
geological
features
occur
when
and
where
they
...
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Although
the
term
"museum"
usually
evokes
a
vision
of
long
halls
lined
with
exhibits,
the
University
of
California
Museum
of
Paleontology
is
more
like
a
library
representing
more
than
a
billion
years
of
life
on
Earth.
It
is
an
active
center
of
research,
housing
one
of
the
nation's
largest
fossil
collections
as
well
as
state-of-the-art
facilities
for
the
study
of
these
fossils.
Research
focuses
on
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