The Lost Symbol: Inside the REAL Pod FIve

The Smithsonian Museum Support Center (SMCS) in Silver Hill, Maryland, just outside of the Washington, DC is one of the locations featured in Dan Brown's book and upcoming movie The Lost Symbol. In the book Pod Five of the SMCS is home to the super-secret laboratory where Katherine Solomon studies noetics, but in real life it is home to the National Museum of Natural History's scientific specimen collection. Pod Five is as wide as a football field and three stories tall and all the rooms are stacked from floor to ceiling with scientific specimens collected from across the globe.

I am working on a Smithsonian and Google Earth project and visited some of the specimens from the Gulf of Mexico, including sponges, coral, tube worms, crabs, lobsters and a giant squid.

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• The lost symbol
• dan brown
• pod 5
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• smithsonian
• museum support center
• msc
• gulf of mexico
• invertebrate zoology