Celebrate the Holiday Season with the Museum’s Stunning Collection of Blue Specimens
Learn how this rare hue shows up in the natural world with some of the Smithsonian’s bluest specimens
From brilliant blues to fiery reds, discover how nature crafts diamonds in every color, and why some shades are rarer than the rest
From whale earwax to a shimmering ammonite shell, the “Objects of Wonder” exhibition spotlights some of the museum’s most intriguing specimens
Smithsonite honors the scientific legacy of mineralogist James Smithson