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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History is located at 200 Central Park West, New York, NY. The museum was established in 1869. It is one of the largest and most renowned natural history museums in the world. The museum’s collection includes over 34 million specimens ranging from fossils and minerals to cultural artifacts and biological specimens. Notable exhibits include the dinosaur halls featuring a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, the Hall of Biodiversity and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, which includes the Hayden Planetarium. The museum also hosts significant temporary exhibitions such as “The Butterfly Conservatory” and “The Nature of Color.” Additionally, the American Museum of Natural History offers a variety of educational programs including sleepovers, science classes and public lectures, making it a key institution for science education and public engagement. Read more about Museums.

Exterior view of the New Museum at dusk, with its distinctive stacked aluminium mesh volumes rising above the intersection of Bowery and Prince Street in Manhattan, New York.

What’s the Matter With Museums?

"The museums succeeding in the current climate are the ones that are hyper-local, positioning themselves as direct service providers… The ones facing opposition, in most cases, led with what they had and why it mattered, rather than asking the community what it needed."
By Daniel Grant

Best New York City Museums to Cry at

Not much is free in this life, but no one can ever charge you for crying in public.
By Rachel Millman

Workers at the American Museum of Natural History Seek to Unionize with DC 37

In addition to higher wages, benefits, and job retention, concerns over COVID safety precautions are also a part of the unionization effort.
By Annie Levin
MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 07: An American Airlines plane takes off at the Miami International Airport on February 7, 2013 in Miami, Florida. Reports indicate that a deal between American Airlines and US Airways to merge may be set for early next week. If the deal goes through it would create the world's biggest airline.

American Airlines Sued for Damaging Art, Justin Trudeau Sketch Sold for $25K—and More

By Alanna Martinez

NYC’s Museums Are Swapping Instagram Accounts for Today

By Alanna Martinez
The Titanosaur, the largest dinosaur ever displayed at the American Museum of Natural History, is unveiled at a news conference January 14, 2016 in New York.

A 17-Foot-Tall Dinosaur Has Arrived in New York

By Vida Weisblum
A rendering of the proposed exterior for the Museum's Richard Gilder Center expansion. (Courtesy of Studio Gang Architects)

Museum Expansion Prompts Residents to Tap Into Nonconformist Heritage of the UWS

By Morgan Halberg
(Photo: Courtesy of Evie Borthwick)

Digging Data Out of Dinosaur Journals

By Brady Dale
Pangea3 model set back to 171 million years ago. (Screenshot: Github)

Where in the World Was Liopleurodon?

By Brady Dale
Courtesy The Whitney Museum

The Year in US Museums: Top 7 Trends and Developments of 2015

By Daniel Grant and Alexandra Peers
Actress Tina Fey.

Fringe Anti-Museum Expansion Activists Plan to Ambush Tina Fey

By Guelda Voien
The American Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Afternoon Bulletin: NHM Expansion Protesters Target Tina Fey and More

By Abigail Rowe
Rendering of the interior of the Gilder Center.

UWS Residents Propose Natural History Museum Move Its Expansion to The Bronx

By Alanna Martinez
25th November 1963: John Lennon (1940 - 1980), singer, guitarist and songwriter with the Beatles, plays an acoustic guitar during Granada TV's Late Scene Extra television show filmed in Manchester, England on November 25, 1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

John Lennon’s Guitar Auctioned for $2.4M, Space Invader Comes to NY, and More

By Alanna Martinez
Workers stand in a tunnel in the East Side Access project, one of the largest transportation infrastructure projects currently underway in the United States (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Afternoon Bulletin: A Look at the East Side Access Project, Airbnb Survey and More

By Amanda Manning
Canadian architect Frank Gehry unveils his latest structrual entity in Sydney on December 16, 2010. Gehry, 81, said the 150 million USD business school at Sydney's University of Technology, would "generate some questions" but he was confident the wrinkly tree-house design would ultimately be embraced. The 11-storey building, which will begin construction in 2012 on the university's existing campus, will be Gehry's only Australian design. AFP PHOTO / Torsten BLACKWOOD (Photo credit should read TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

Can We Stop Calling Architects ‘Starchitects’ Now? ArtPrize Dallas Nixed, and More

By Alanna Martinez

Michael Light’s Digital Masters of the Original Moon Photographs

By Magali Duzant

Redeveloped Staten Island Museum Is Just the Beginning

By Stephanie Grella
Theodore Roosevelt Park, adjacent to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. (Photo: Change.org via Defenders of Teddy Roosevelt Park)

Save the Park: Critics of AMNH’s Upper West Side Expansion Set Town Hall Meeting

By Alanna Martinez

Titanosaur Invades New York!

By Francis Curiel
Céline Haeberly for Observer

How I Went From Running the Pulitzer Prizes to Community Activist at Age 80

By Sig Gissler
The American Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Natural History Museum’s Expansion Plans Launch Tug of War Over Roosevelt Park

By Alanna Martinez

Faeryland and Toadstools Arrive in Chelsea, Courtesy of Mister Finch

By Laren Stover
The resculpted and repainted 94-foot-long blue whale model hangs over the exhibit space at the American Museum of Natural History during a media preview May 12, 2003 in New York City.

To Do In New York: March 4-11, 2015

By Jennifer Ashley Wright
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