For example, “Deep Time” includes a tribute of sorts to its predecessor, with a vertically mounted fossil of a Stegosaurus that had been embedded for decades in the museum’s floor.

When it first opened in 1910, the Dinosaur Hall at the Smithsonian National ... who then gifted it to the Dickenson Museum Center, which then made it the star exhibit of what would become the ...

With a collection of more than 147 million items, this robust Smithsonian ... at this museum would be complete without stopping by the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – "Deep Time" exhibit ...