National Zoo Opens New Exhibits
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PrintFrom 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).
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1956
Exhibitions