American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History occupies a vast complex on Central Park West in Manhattan, one of the largest natural-history museums in the world with about 3.9 million visitors in 2024. Its halls of dinosaur fossils, the 94-foot blue whale model, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and its classic wildlife dioramas have made it a New York institution since 1869.

The museum holds more than 30 million specimens and artifacts, only a fraction on display, and is a major center of scientific research. A 2023 addition, the Gilder Center, added new galleries and an insectarium.

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