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Philadelphia museums revisit how America was built on botany

The Academy of Natural Sciences and the Mütter Museum have exhibitions about the role of plants in nation building.

This Mütter Museum exhibit explores origins of American pharmacy in Philadelphia

An exhibit called Revolutionary Botany at the Mütter Museum explores the origins of the American pharmacy and Philly's role.
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Botanical Illustration Exhibition Highlights the Art Behind Conservation at the National Museum of Natural History

A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative ...
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Botany

The Department of Botany was established in 1947 as part of a reorganization in the United States National Museum (USNM). At that time, the Division of Plants, USNM became the new Department of Botany ...
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Garden of artistic delights / At the intersection of nature and humans, art meets botany in a revelatory show at the Sonoma County Museum

Plants, in the American Indian tradition, manifest a power closely intertwined with humans, touching on spiritual and physical health, culture and beauty. Of course, no culture has a lock on the ...