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Summary

From the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, new facilities and exhibitions are opened at the National Zoological Park: the Great Flight Cage, the Giant Panda House, the General Services Building, the Great Ape House, the Mann Lion/Tiger Exhibit (May 1976), Monkey Island (1982-83), Gibbon Ridge (1988), the Honey Bees Exhibit (1989), and the Wetlands Habitat (1989).

Subject

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Notes

  • Mergen, Alexa. From Bison to Biopark: 100 Years of the National Zoo. Washington, D.C.: Friends of the National Zoo, 1989.
  • Torch, 7/1976, p. 5

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

1956

Topic

Exhibitions

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