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new york american museum of natural history
One of the top museums to visit whilst in New York city
is the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's collection houses
over 30 million artifacts and has one of the largest Dinosaur exhibitions
stretching over three floors. Other floors display realistic mammal and
wildlife collections around the globe as well as interactive displays
on geological formation and space exploration. museum of natural history new york city overview The New York Museum of Natural History was proposed by Albert Smith Bickmore and was founded in early 1869. The museum of Natural History was initially housed on the east side of Central Park, with the first exhibit being displayed in 1871. Within a year the New York AMoNHs rapidly expanding collections had began to outgrow this location and in 1872 land was secured for its current site at Manhattan Square. The Museum of Natural History New York's first neo-Gothic building on this plot is vastly different from what currently greets visitors. Architects Vaux and Mould had a much grander plan for the entire site than the American Museum of Natural History New York funds initially allowed. Successive additions to the original building included a neo-Romanesque south end by Cady and an impressive Roman main entrance on Central Park West which was completed in 1936. This entrance leads to the Barosauraus exhibit pictured above. Many of the American Museum's anthropological collections have been sympathetically displayed giving a realistic image of their habitat. In fact the museum is probably most famous for its habit groups of mammals although their dinosaur exhibitions are also world-famous. That said there is plenty to keep you fully occupied throughout the day on the five floors of the American Museum of Natural History. Their large halls devoted to fossils, mammals, birds, biodiversity and culture are complemented by smaller halls devoted to other areas of natural history including ocean life, forests, meteorites, primates, minerals and gems. The Rose centre for Earth and Space, opened in 2000, offers interactive, educational exhibits exploring the cosmos. If Natural History isn't appealing then other museums nearby include the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as the Met) which has a world renowned display of antiquities, the Children's Museum of Manhattan and the New York Historical Society Museum. new York American museum of natural history further information American Museum
of Natural History, Central Park West (at 79th Street) New York, NY
10024-5192. |
