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77<span>01—06</span>
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81<div class="smithsonian-hero-cards" aria-label="A five-card Fossil Showdown preview with current fossil and special cards and a rotating amber discovery">
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88<span class="smithsonian-hero-game-label">Scavenger hunt · 90-card collection</span>
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90<div class="smithsonian-hero-index" aria-hidden="true">01 / 06</div>
91<a class="smithsonian-hero-open" href="/smithsonian-digital-twin/deep-time-hall-of-fossils/index.html">Start the hunt <span aria-hidden="true">↗</span>
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96<span>A fossil scavenger hunt</span>
97<strong>Fossil Showdown Scavenger Hunt</strong>
98<p>Find rotating amber, reveal 90 discovery cards, and build your fossil collection across 40 panoramic scenes.</p>
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104<div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>A fossil scavenger hunt</span><strong>Fossil Showdown Scavenger Hunt</strong><p>Find rotating amber, reveal 90 discovery cards, and build your fossil collection across 40 panoramic scenes.</p></div><div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>Museums, galleries &amp; connected stories</span><strong>Air &amp; Space</strong><p>Explore 19 connected tours across the National Mall and U.S. Air Force Museum. Udvar-Hazy is coming soon.</p></div><div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>Civil War landscape</span><strong>Civil War Field Atlas: Antietam</strong><p>The battlefield landscape, its monuments, and the objects that preserve the history of September 17, 1862.</p></div><div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>History and remembrance</span><strong>Vietnam War Commemoration</strong><p>Preserved exhibit spaces, documentary media, artifacts, and individual records.<

104/p></div><div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>Energy systems</span><strong>Inside Nuclear Power</strong><p>Controlled fission, turbines, cooling systems, the grid, and digital demand.</p></div><div class="carousel-caption-sizer" aria-hidden="true"><span>Travel and public history</span><strong>Virtual West Virginia</strong><p>Landscapes, historic places, community stories, maps, and routes across the state.</p></div>
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117<span>All experiences</span>
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123<p>All experiences · 14</p>
124<h1>Current <em>experiences.</em>
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134<p>Natural history · scavenger hunt · 90-card collection</p>
135<h2>Fossil Showdown Scavenger Hunt</h2>
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139<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#d9a441" href="/nps-project/">
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141<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/children-of-courage.png" alt="The Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home and the Children of Courage walking story"/>
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145<p>Civil rights history · 11-place walking story</p>
146<h2>Children of Courage</h2>
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151<figure class="air-space-preview"><div class="air-space-panel air-space-panel-1"><img src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/air-destination-moon.jpg" alt="Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit beside the One Small Step quotation in Destination Moon" loading="lazy" decoding="async"/></div><div class="air-space-panel air-space-panel-2"><img src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/air-udvar-hazy.jpg" alt="The SR-71 Blackbird at the Udvar-Hazy Center" loading="lazy" decoding="async"/></div><div class="air-space-panel air-space-panel-3"><img src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/air-wright-brothers-statue.jpg" alt="The seated bronze sculpture of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Stop 2 of the Wright Brothers gallery" loading="lazy" decoding="async"/></div><span>03</span></figure>
152<div><p>Aviation &amp; space · 19 tours · Udvar-Hazy coming soon</p><h2>Air &amp; Space</h2><i aria-hidden="true">↗</i></div>
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170<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/sightlines.jpg" alt="Art and community history in Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond"/>
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174<p>Smithsonian American Art Museum · 17 panoramic views</p>
175<h2>Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond</h2>
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181<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/deep-time-fossil-atlas.jpg" alt="Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops fossil mounts"/>
182<span>05</span>
183</figure>
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185<p>Natural history · 214 fossil and paleoart records</p>
186<h2>Deep Time Fossil Atlas</h2>
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190<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#00b8c8" href="/smithsonian-digital-twin/deep-reef-exploration-curasub-immersive-course/">
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192<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/deep-reef.jpg" alt="Deep-sea submersible and reef exploration imagery"/>
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194</figure>
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196<p>Marine science · panoramic field experience</p>
197<h2>Deep Reef Explorers</h2>
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203<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/civil-war-antietam.jpg" alt="A panoramic battlefield landscape at Antietam"/>
204<span>07</span>
205</figure>
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207<p>Civil War landscape · panoramic field atlas</p>
208<h2>Civil War Field Atlas: Antietam</h2>
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212<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#52b7a8" href="/smithsonian-digital-twin/outbreak-systems-lab/">
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214<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/outbreak-one-health.png" alt="One Health exhibition display"/>
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216</figure>
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218<p>Public health · One Health</p>
219<h2>Outbreak Systems Lab</h2>
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225<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/pentagon-vietnam.jpg" alt="Pentagon Vietnam War commemorative exhibit"/>
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229<p>History and remembrance</p>
230<h2>The Vietnam War: Service, Valor &amp; Sacrifice</h2>
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236<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/military-womens-memorial.jpg" alt="The Military Women’s Memorial at the ceremonial entrance to Arlington National Cemetery"/>
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238</figure>
239<div>
240<p>Architecture · service · remembrance · public history</p>
241<h2>Military Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery</h2>
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245<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#e5c955" href="/plant-vogtle-nuclear-power-immersive-course/">
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247<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/nuclear-power.jpg" alt="Cooling towers photographed at Plant Vogtle"/>
248<span>11</span>
249</figure>
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251<p>Energy systems · engineering</p>
252<h2>Inside Nuclear Power</h2>
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256<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#e4002b" href="/metropolitan-museum-art-history-immersive-course/">
257<figure>
258<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/metropolitan-museum.jpg" alt="A collage of empty galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"/>
259<span>12</span>
260</figure>
261<div>
262<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 20 gallery views</p>
263<h2>5,000 Years in 20 Rooms</h2>
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267<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#76a763" href="/virtual-west-virginia/">
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269<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/virtual-west-virginia.jpg" alt="The New River Gorge Bridge above a forested valley"/>
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271</figure>
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273<p>Landscape · travel · public history</p>
274<h2>Virtual West Virginia</h2>
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278<a class="foyer-card" style="--card-accent:#a9472c" href="/rio-vista-farm-bracero-history-community/">
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280<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/homepage-canonical-20260822/rio-vista.jpg" alt="Evening light across the historic buildings at Rio Vista Farm"/>
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284<p>Community history · bilingual record</p>
285<h2>Rio Vista: Past, Present &amp; Future</h2>
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