From Art to Zoo, the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex, has something to interest kids and students of all ages. Plan ahead online with The Official Kids Guide to the Smithsonian Institution - an interactive guidebook just for kids. The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World November 25, 2014 - 2018 Museum: Natural History Museum Location: 2nd Floor, West Explore how we learn about past ecosystems and organisms through the study of their fossils and find what goes into making a large-scale fossil exhibition. Watch fossils being prepared in a working fossil preparation lab. As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games August 22, 2012 - Indefinitely Museum: American Indian Museum Location: 1st Floor, near Imaginations Activity Center All children play. Native American children play like any others, but their toys and games are more than playthings. They are ways of learning about the lives of grown men and women and ways of learning the traditions of their families and their people. The toys, games, and clothing come from all over North, Central, and South America, representing many tribes and many time periods. The First Ladies November 19, 2011 - Indefinitely Museum: American History Museum Location: 3rd Floor, Rose Gallery On view are more than two dozen gowns, including those worn by Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Four cases provide in-depth looks at Mary Todd Lincoln, Edith Roosevelt, and Lady Bird Johnson and their contributions to their husband's presidential administrations. Apollo to the Moon July 1, 1976 - Permanent Museum: Air and Space Museum Location: 2nd Floor, East Wing This gallery traces NASA's manned space program beginning with Project Mercury's Freedom 7 (1961); then the Gemini Project (1965 - 66); followed by the Apollo Program (1967 - 1972), with Apollo 17 as the last manned exploration of the moon. If you visit all the four locations, you can   _  .
see gowns once worn by Edith Roosevelt help prepare a dinosaur fossil exhibition learn about Apollo 17's space exploration play with children's toys from Central America