Ellen, Mabel and Annie Soo
A Chinese American Legacy
A small collection of photographs sheds light on a Chinese American story
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Clear glass drug bottle from turn of the century
Message From A Bottle
Finds from Exposition Park excavations reveal past lives.
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Ben-Hur costume in Becoming Los Angeles
A Shield at Hart
A piece of history linked to a blockbuster movie
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Pregnant Plesiosaur specimen in Dinosaur Hall
Mind-Blown Science: Dr. Luis Chiappe and NHM's Extraordinary Plesiosaur
Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of our Dinosaur Institute, explains why this giant marine reptile blows his mind.
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Assistant Conservator Marina Gibbons
Naturalist
Sewing for the Gold
Conservators really like weird, unique problems. We’re not happy that something deteriorates, but we’re really fascinated to find out how that's happening.
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Great Auk in NHM's collections
Naturalist
Auk-Ward
One story goes that, in just half an hour, hundreds of auks were herded onto a single ship
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woman in gem vault
Gems of the Americas
Travel back in time with one of NHM's most beloved gems, this video from our vaults. 
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mammoth exhibit tar pits mammoths and mastodons
Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth
A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro
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Silhouette of monster for Natural History of Horror exhibition
Naturalist
Museum-Made Monsters
The classic monster-movie artifacts that appeared in our Natural History of Horror exhibition are the result of one man’s uncanny foresight: Honorary Curator Earl Theisen.
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film camera taste of history
Lights, Camera, Action
When you work in the NHM History Collections, you can find some rather mysterious objects.
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