What You Support
What You Support
Take Your Place in the Circle and Help Inspire Curiosity, Speed Discovery, and Share Learning.
Your support helps us:
- Keep today’s exhibitions current with tomorrow’s advances in technology and information
- Expand our virtual presence, providing instant online access to our treasures and resources
- Translate basic science into innovation
- Create interactive tools to get our educational message across and constantly infuse programs with exciting new content
- Underwrite the training of the next generation of scientists through a robust program of fellowships and visiting scholars.
Help Us Strengthen the Museum’S Future
Join the Leadership Circle today
“As a scientist and donor I support the critical research process which begins with our collections and builds knowledge about our natural world. From James Smithson’s first donation for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, an ever-increasing circle of supporters has helped to continue and sustain the process. Please join us.”
F. Christian Thompson, Adjunct Scientist, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History
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“As a scientist and donor I support the critical research process which begins with our collections and builds knowledge about our natural world. From James Smithson’s first donation for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, an ever-increasing circle of supporters has helped to continue and sustain the process. Please join us.”