Talk:National Museum of Natural History

Better Marketing?
From National Museum of Natural History: The museum's collections total over 125 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, making it the largest such museum anywhere. It is the second most popular of all of the Smithsonian museums and 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.

From American Museum of Natural History The collections contain over 150 million specimens, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year.

At some point, these data should be verified, and any erroneous claims such as "largest" should be removed.

--MinstrelOfC (talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Assessment

 * This could easily be a B-class article. It just needs a bit more history, better integration of the photos, and a check to make sure the exhibit list is up to date. --M @ r ē ino 20:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Photos of the Museum
I have a bunch of photos I've taken with my camera (DSLR) when I visited the Natural History Museum. What kind of photos could improve the article? I have photos of the exterior, interior atrium, and the exhibits. The photos were taken 2012-02-24. Sumant.manne (talk) 03:11, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

History section: severe recentism
The History section seems very unbalanced: the majority of the text of the 150 year history concerns Cristián Samper's tenure from 2003-2012. Surely this is an extreme amount of recentism. And I find it hard to believe that nothing notable occurred between 1910 and 1980. Either the recent history- especially the Samper controversy- should be pared down or relocated, or the rest of the history should be expanded. --Animalparty-- (talk) 06:48, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Does the article date the first use of the term "National Museum of Natural History"?Lee De Cola (talk) 20:11, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

temporary exhibits section
in this section there are 8 temp exhibits mentioned (ca 2010) and all are sloppily referenced to a raw, unarchived link of "current exhibits", that of course no longer shows them. I am tempted to erase these all. I will change formatting to condense the lavish layout for now, and flag them.--Wuerzele (talk) 05:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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List
I’ve been considering creating a list of the sections with the animal halls. Should I go ahead? Firekong1 (talk) 19:06, 19 May 2024 (UTC)