Exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Star Wars trilogy features original props, models, costumes and artworks. Highlights include characters Yoda and Jabba the Hutt, a production model for the Millennium Falcon, and such icons as Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and Han Solo's figure frozen in carbonite. New permanent exhibition traces the competition in space between the United States and the former Soviet Union. A collection of 24 blue guitars illustrates the role of color in musical instrument making.
Display cases focus on innovations in color design and look at how colors affect our daily lives.
Two display cases feature papers from the Paint By Numbers painting kit company. Science in American Life Permanent exhibition tracks advances and discoveries in science over the past 125 years. National Museum Of Natural History Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals New gallery showcasing the National Gem Collection explores Earth's changing surface and the birth of the Solar System by taking visitors from the depths of a copper mine to distant stars. Traveling exhibition from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art features 150 masks created by Yup'ik Eskimos. Display explores the work of the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and honors the Kraffts, whose efforts to alert people to the dangers of volcanoes saved thousands of lives, but cost their own.