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Assateague's Wild Horses - National Parks Gallery

Assateague's Wild Horses - National Parks Gallery

Assateague's wild horses are well known, even to many people who have never been to the island. The "wild" horses on Assateague are actually feral animals, meaning that they are descendants of domestic animals ... More

The Lure of the Mountains - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

The Lure of the Mountains - Public Domain image, National Parks Galler...

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea foam, where the shrill wind whistle free, but a chosen band in a mountain land and the a life in the woods for me.

Tuskegee Airman Exhibit Panels - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Tuskegee Airman Exhibit Panels - Public Domain image, National Parks G...

Tuskegee Airman Exhibit Panels show photographs and text of the men that trained here.

Harpers Ferry Center - Water Above

Harpers Ferry Center - Water Above

These tactile models of rocks from the surrounding mountains and gypsum found at White Sands.

Seasons at Peaks of Otter - Public domain natural history illustration

Seasons at Peaks of Otter - Public domain natural history illustration

Native Americans saw the area as a rich hunting ground and entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century built hotels to accommodate the growing tourism industry.

Harpers Ferry Center - Lobby Overview

Harpers Ferry Center - Lobby Overview

Exhibits at the Harkers Island Visitor Center provide orientation to the diversity of landscapes in the park.

Harpers Ferry Center - Lobby Overview

Harpers Ferry Center - Lobby Overview

Exhibits at the Harkers Island Visitor Center provide orientation to the diversity of land-scapes and resources to be discovered in the park, as well inspire and motivate visitors to directly experience the park.

It's not so Bright at Night - Public domain natural history illustration

It's not so Bright at Night - Public domain natural history illustrati...

The exhibits include tactile models, several interactives and a number of audiovisual presentations.

North and south canyon sides - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

North and south canyon sides - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

Across from the station’s panoramic windows, visitors pass between floor-to-ceiling models depicting the north and south canyon sides.

Harpers Ferry Center - Double V

Harpers Ferry Center - Double V

Double V: Fighting for victory at home and abroad

Africa was - and is - home to a variety of cultures

Africa was - and is - home to a variety of cultures

Universal design and accessibility are major components of the interpretative media here including audio description of all the exhibits and audiovisual programs, wheelchair accessibility to all areas, tactile ... More

Alexander Hamilton: American Visionary

Alexander Hamilton: American Visionary

Visitors can examine various facets of Hamilton’s life through these exhibits.

Harpers Ferry Center - Discover More

Harpers Ferry Center - Discover More

A series of exhibits presenting the in-depth story of how the series of rocks were formed, uplifted, and eventually eroded. Landscape depictions, rock specimens, replicas of ancient life forms, and interactives... More

Bright White World - National Parks Gallery

Bright White World - National Parks Gallery

New state-of-the-art interpretive exhibits focus on the latest science regarding the plants and animals living amongst the dunes, the seemingly counter-intuitive story of water and its critical relationship to ... More

People of the Basin - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

People of the Basin - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

There are probably as many stories about the individuals who have come to the basin as there are grains in a handful of sand. Here are the stories of a few.

Harpers Ferry Center - Ocean Beach

Harpers Ferry Center - Ocean Beach

An exhibit about the creatures that make the beach their home.

Ties to the landscape - Public domain natural history illustration

Ties to the landscape - Public domain natural history illustration

The American Indian connection to Great Falls is depicted through arrowheads, a large petroglyph, illustrations, and artwork.

A Sudden Change - National Parks Gallery

A Sudden Change - National Parks Gallery

A detailed exhibit blends experience orientation with interpretation of the natural and unnatural forces that shape the island.

Harpers Ferry Center - Discovery Mural

Harpers Ferry Center - Discovery Mural

The Cape Lookout ecosystem from the sound side marshes and estuaries to the thin protective line of islands of the Outer Banks and the ocean depths beyond are featured in this mural.

Some of those bones are my mother's bones

Some of those bones are my mother's bones

From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York.

Reclaiming our History: The African Burial Ground in New York

Reclaiming our History: The African Burial Ground in New York

The Maerschalk plan of the City of New York is a historic map made in 1754 that clearly shows the African Burial Ground and its surrounding neighborhood

Yavapai Observation Station Overlook Exhibits

Yavapai Observation Station Overlook Exhibits

The historic Yavapai Observation Station overlooks the south rim of the Grand Canyon, providing visitors with a sweeping vista of the canyon.

Clearing the path - National Parks Gallery

Clearing the path - National Parks Gallery

St. Luke's Episcopal Church relocated Hamilton Grange and changed its appearance. They took off the porches and the front and rear entrance and essentially built a church right up next to it.

Are you a caver? - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Are you a caver? - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

New state-of-the-art, bilingual, interpretive exhibits at Carlsbad Caverns allow visitors to walk through the stories that make the park a site of national and international significance, from the geological fo... More

Maritime Forest Exhibit - National Parks Gallery

Maritime Forest Exhibit - National Parks Gallery

Where Assateague is widest and most stable and the salt spray weakest, a slightly higher elevation allows loblolly pines and other trees to grow.

Tourist Attraction - Pop up Exhibits

Tourist Attraction - Pop up Exhibits

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site and Harper Ferry Center’s staff planned, designed, contracted fabrication and installation of 13 pop-up style temporary exhibits for th... More

Tourist Attraction - Clinton Family History

Tourist Attraction - Clinton Family History

All work was completed in less than four months in preparation for the formal dedication of the site and opening of the Visitor Center by President Clinton and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar on April 16, 2011.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home Identity Sign

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home Identity Sign

On August 19, 1946, Virginia Blythe gave birth to her son, William Jefferson Blythe, III. Named for his father who died before he was born, he grew up to become William Jefferson Clinton - the 42nd president of... More

Bird-Brady House, Garage, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Garage, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, Jeffers...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1591 Survey number: HABS WV-304-A

Bird-Brady House, Garage, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Bird-Brady House, Garage, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, Jeffers...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1591 Survey number: HABS WV-304-A