American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History, established in 1869, is one of the world’s foremost and most exciting natural history museums. Located at 79th Street on picturesque Central Park West, the museum’s many exhibits explore both the natural and the human world through anthropology, paleontology, biodiversity, geology, astronomy, and more. From the famed fossil halls including two dinosaur halls, to the mammal halls with dioramas of animal life in North America, Africa, and Asia, to the ultramodern and architecturally distinctive Rose Center for Earth and Space, a visit to the American Museum of Natural History is sure to captivate your interest and open your mind.
- Explore the collections that inspired the 2006 movie Night at the Museum
- Discover the diversity of human society past and present in the culture halls
- Marvel at the massive skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex and see many other fossils big and small, from the earliest terrestrial vertebrates to the wooly mammoth
- Get up close to beautiful gems and ancient meteorites, including the famed Star of India sapphire and the 4.5 billion year old, 34 ton Cape York meteorite
- Take a trip through the universe from your seat in the state-of-the-art Hayden Planetarium
