📍 American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park W, New York, NY 10024

🏮 Open daily, 10am-5.30pm.

New York City has a lot of great museums: the Metropolitan, the Museum of Natural History, MOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum and more than 170 other museums, it is definitely a museum lover's paradise.

The American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world and one of the leading centers of natural history research and education in the United States. The museum was founded in 1869, located in New York, the United States, covers a total area of more than 7 hectares, the building is a classical form. Amazing Night at the Museum, a museum that's one of the top three museums in New York.

Together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the museum is called the meeting point of the past and the future of mankind and the earth, where the former two look back on the past of mankind and the earth, while the latter depicts and anticipates the future of mankind and the earth.

Its paleontological and anthropological collections rank first in the world's museums, with representative specimens from South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia in addition to specimens from the United States.

Inside the exhibition content is extremely rich, including astronomy, minerals, humans, paleontology and modern life 5 aspects, there are a large number of fossils, dinosaurs, birds, Indian and Eskimo replica models. Specimens of precious stones, mollusks and Marine life are particularly valuable.

The interior space of the new Glider Center is very transparent and closely connected to the main museum. After wandering around other exhibition halls, you can come here to sit and relax. Yesterday, I mainly visited some exhibition halls on the first floor, such as Marine life, North American animals and so on.

It is recommended to take a map first, can not find the exhibition hall directly ask the staff, they will give you directions!

🍄 Historical background

The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 and has a history of more than 150 years. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was a strong advocate of the museum, and a statue of him is left at the museum entrance to commemorate his contribution to the conservation of nature.
Opening hours: Usually from 10pm to 5.30pm daily (please refer to the museum's official website for details). We walked for more than 4 hours, and there were several charging pavilions that we did not go to.

🎁 Collection Features:

It is the world's largest natural history museum and the world's first dinosaur museum, with about 127 million specimens! The theme of the exhibition here spans biology, paleontology, anthropology, astronomy and earth science, and the collection can be roughly divided into paleontological fossils, animal specimen models, ethnic culture and art, and mineral gems.
Don't miss the Hayden planetarium, which, for an extra fee, shows giant IMAX films that explore space and are stunning

🎥 where the film was shot

The fantasy comedy Night at the Museum, starring Ben Stiller, was filmed here. The Sauropean dinosaur room on the fourth floor is a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil that likes to pick up bones, the primate room is a capuchin monkey that plays pranks on the third floor, and the Pacific Islander area is a Moai statue of Easter Island that always says "stupid".

🦋 Exhibition:

Ground floor: Space Hall;
First floor: Over 10,000 square feet of the "most valuable" exhibition hall featuring world-class collections, including 5.44 tons of amethyst and jade jade gems beloved by the Chinese. Minerals, meteorites, Human origins, New York State environment, North American forests, Northwest Coast, Marine life, biodiversity, insects, North American mammals, Planetarium, Earth, Giant screen Cinema.
Third floor: Pacific People, Primates, North American Birds, reptile Amphibians, African mammals, New York City Birds, Mammals.
Fourth floor: Advanced Mammals, Primitive Mammals, Dinosaurs, Vertebrate Origins.

Roosevelt statue: Located at the main entrance of the museum, it is a must-punch photo point.
Dinosaur fossils: There are many huge dinosaur fossils in the museum, standing in front of them to take photos, as if you have traveled to the age of dinosaurs.
Gem Exhibition Hall: Here is a collection of many precious gems, dazzling, is a good place to take photos.


It's too big to finish. It's really too big to finish. So focus on one area at a time and learn more. This time, we looked at the insect area and learned about the social composition of honeypot ants: breeding ants and worker ants. We also saw all kinds of insects, cicadas, silkworms, butterflies, beetles and so on.

Finally, Gift shop bought an animal bracelet that can track penguins, elephants, sharks, turtles, polar bears and so on. Choose to track a turtle and use the app to track where it swims at any time. The turtle I bonded with, Marigold Puddlefoot, has been observed swimming 2,830 kilometers in the ocean. This is brilliant marketing. Pay for the idea.

After the tour, you can also go to the next Central Park, Fifth Avenue walk, perfect weekend.