natural history museums

With the help of his son Rubens, the famous painter Charles Willson Peale finds a way to transport his natural history treasures to a new museum in Philadelphia's Philosophical Hall.

A young girl takes her grandmother on an outing to the natural history museum.

When the night guard arrives at the Ocean Hall at the Museum of Natural History, he wonders if he left the bathtub faucet on at home.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the work people do at a museum.

Katie and her third-grade class go on a field trip to the natural history museum where Katie finds herself magically transported into the body of their tour guide.

Presents an illustrated guide to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC and includes over two hundred color photographs of mammals, fossils, gems and minerals, and ancient cultures of the world.

Describes what one may find in a natural history museum and the work that goes on behind the scenes.

A guide takes a group of children on a tour of the natural history museum where they view reconstructions of dinosaurs, plant and wild animal displays, and an Indian earth lodge.