Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Store

It's a great time always at the Smithsonian Natural History museum. First time for my daughter, son and wife and they really had a blast seeing all the displays in the museum. Great place for the family and lots of things to see. Really really an Amazing place to visit with the family and kids. Highly recommend

Amazing place to visit and learn about the evolution of our great country through the integration of various cultures.

One of my favorite places to visit each time imI go there!! Is a really fun experience and a fun place to go!! You probably need alot of time to go visit the place and take your time to really enjoy every bit of the place since the place has like 5 ot five floors to visit !! Love everything is a self tour museum but its nice and obviously theres more places for you to visit!! Sometimes their under construction but if you get to go you will really enjoy all the time you be there!!

We had the best time walking around this museum. Highly recommend checking it out if you are in DC

Awesome museum! ...and it's free. Kid friendly, make sure to bring comfortable shoes as you will be walking quite a bit to the various areas. Best of all is that there is no fee for entry.

Enjoyed the museum! Lots to see and easy to spend several hours if you really take your time. But if your "in a hurry" I feel you'd get most everything out of the museum in about 2+ hours.

Beautiful museum with a great staff. There are so many wonderful exhibits. Looking forward to future visits.

It's beautiful. Takes easily good 4/5 hours to see leisurely. Good one to add to your itinerary.

Amazing museum, great for kids with lots of interactive exhibits. Cafeteria was relatively decent too, with lots of seating and selection of food.

I have no words to express how super awesome this place is, we took our 7 year old daughter and she had a blast, it's filled with a lot of history and they will learn a loooottttt. I recommend this museum if you come to Washington, this is a must visit. Spectacular!!!!!

The collection was so diverse, it would take a couple of days to see everything.
The fact that such a beautiful collection iChat is so informative is free is mind blowing

The store was awesome, there were so many great choices! I had to make a second trip so I could grab a magnet for my fridge

This has to be the best museum I've ever been too, so much to see

The Smithsonian museums are all free. They had so many exhibits for the kids to see and many of them are interactive. In one section they had over one thousand samples where kids can see close up, e.g. birds, fish, reptiles. You can put some samples under a microscope to learn more about them. A must see.

I was in absolute heaven here. Everything I love - butterflies, elephants, Egyptology, dinosaurs, photography - was here. I had limited time to spend but I was able to see everything I wanted to while finding time to sit and eat at the food court. At the time I went, the new dinosaur exhibition was still being made, so I thought I wouldn’t get to see dinosaurs...but I was so wrong. After the Egyptology section, I turned the corner...and saw the Tyrannosaurus Rex of my dreams. My jaw hung open for a good minute or two. It was humbling to see how large it was standing next to it.

Edit: Their new fossil hall just opened and it is definitely worth seeing! The giant sloth blew me away!!!

Always a great time at the Smithsonian Natural History museum. First time for my son and wife and they really had a blast seeing all the displays. Great place for the family and lots of things to see.

This place is really really big! It can get confusing where you have and haven't been already, but overall a great experience and full of information and some really interesting stuff!

Free to enter (map is $1) and great exhibits including a good number of interactive displays that children really engage with. Spent a morning here, barely scratched the surface of what this museum can offer (essentially the fossils, gems and geology sections but in some places at a bit of a canter), but did also find it very busy so almost had to leave for the sake of the kids. I’d certainly visit again if I get the opportunity.

This was a Great experience! Brought my family and extended family. We got there right at 10, walked straight in and was able to check everything out. The exhibits are very well put together and very informative. Even though more people stayed showing up round lunch time, there was still enough room to move about and read about the exhibits. Planning on checking out the other museum's later in the week!

This museum had a great variety of exhibits and something for everyone. There was even a new phone exhibit that i would recommend checking out. They had a bit of a wait so i would recommend getting tickets in advance. The gem exhibit was great and so was the animal and bone one.