How to play Treasures of the Smithsonian on Mac
Game summary
Explore the highlights of a dozen museums in this unique, interactive compact disc! From the Air and Space Museum to the National Zoo, treasures range from the World War 1 Albatross Fighter Plane to Zande Harp from Africa. Along the way, you’ll find everything from the Hope Diamonds to Howdy Doody. From Lincoln’s Last Photograph to the famous Pandas. Art works by Picasso and Pollock a Stradivari Cello and a pair of Washington’s Teeth. You can browse through the treasures by museum, category, date or theme. Popular columnist Edward Park provides interesting commentary. Special features let you walk around an object, play its sounds or zoom in on it.
Play Treasures of the Smithsonian on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Treasures of the Smithsonian on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
Treasures of the Smithsonian installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Treasures of the Smithsonian like you would on any PC.
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