Last week, Johnson was named the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He has worked at a similar museum in Denver since 1991 and led a renowned excavation in Snowmass Village, Colo., in 2010.

What are you looking forward to doing with the Smithsonian museum?

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