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A New Age of Exploration: National Geographic Museum an Exhibition Celebrating 125 Years

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June 24, 2013, 1:20 PM

Celebrate 125 years of National Geographic Celebrate 125 years of National Geographic through stunning photography, film, and interactive experiences in the new exhibition, A New Age of Exploration. Now open at the National Geographic Museum located at 17th & M Streets N.W. in Washington, D.C.
Celebrate 125 years of National Geographic Celebrate 125 years of National Geographic through stunning photography, film, and interactive experiences in the new exhibition, A New Age of Exploration. Now open at the National Geographic Museum located at 17th & M Streets N.W. in Washington, D.C.
1909 | CANADA National Geographic funded Cmdr. Robert E. Peary's 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Whether Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, reached the Pole or not, they came closer to that goal than anyone before them. (Photo © Robert E. Peary Collection, NGS)
Photo © Robert E. Peary Collection, NGS
MACHU PICCHU, PERU Hiram Bingham poses for an informal picture in front of his tent at Machu Picchu, the lost mountaintop city of the Inca in the Peruvian Andes. National Geographic supported Bingham's excavations at the site from 1912 to 1915. Photo by Hiram Bingham
1935 | SOUTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES The National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon Explorer II prepares to rise from the Stratobowl near Rapid City, S.D., on Nov 11, 1935. It carried two "aeronauts" 72,395 feet (nearly 14 miles) into the stratosphere — the highest men would go for the next 21 years. Photo by H. Lee Wells
LA VENTA, TABASCO. MEXICO Beginning in 1938, Matthew Stirling, chief of the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology, led eight National Geographic-sponsored expeditions to Tabasco and Veracruz in Mexico. He uncovered 11 colossal stone heads, evidence of the ancient Olmec civilization that had lain buried for 15 centuries. Photo by Richard Hewitt Stewart
1964 | TANZANIA A touching moment between primatologist and National Geographic grantee Jane Goodall and young chimpanzee Flint at Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve. Photo by Hugo van Lawick
1963 | NEPAL The first American team to summit Mount Everest in 1963 included National Geographic's Barry Bishop. Photo by Barry Bishop
1969 | THE MOON Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, his visor reflecting Neil Armstrong and the lunar module Eagle. The Apollo 11 astronauts carried the National Geographic Society flag with them on their journey to the Moon. Photo credit: NASA
EGYPT The gold mask of King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Photo by Kenneth Garrett
1985 | PAKISTAN Steve McCurry's iconic photograph of a young Afghan girl in a Pakistan refugee camp appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine's June 1985 issue and became the most famous cover image in the magazine's history. Photo by Steve McCurry
1991 | NORTH ATLANTIC Rusted prow of the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in April 1912. Photo by Emory Kristof
1994 | BOTSWANA Renowned wildlife filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert photograph an elephant at extremely close range in Botswana's Savuti region, one of Africa's last unspoiled wildernesses. Photo by Beverly Joubert
1995 | INDIA By setting off a camera trap, a female tiger captures her own image in Bandhavgarh National Park. Photo by Michael Nichols
2009 | WASHINGTON STATE, UNITED STATES Sunset falls on Gifford Pinchot National Forest, named for the founder of the U.S. Forest Service and National Geographic Society board member. Photo by Scottyboipdx Weber/National Geographic My Shot
COCOS ISLAND, COSTA RICA Marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala dives with a green turtle off Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Sala leads National Geographic's Pristine Seas project, which aims to find, survey and help protect the last healthy and undisturbed places in the ocean. Photo by Octavio Aburto
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