It's heart-warming to see the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History using rustic and appropriate natural materials in the grounds that surround the 1912 building. These boulders, to me, seem to echo those found around the National Museum of the American Indian across the Mall. Those are called "Grandfather Stones". The grounds around Natural History were sadly ordinary for most of the years I've been acquainted with the building (since about 1955).

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