American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
Established	1869
Location	Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY
Type	Science
Visitor figures	About 5 million visits annually
Director	Ellen V. Futter
Public transit access	B, C, M7, M10, M11, M79
Website	http://www.amnh.org

The American Museum of Natural History is a museum about science. It is one of the biggest and most-visited museums in the world.

The museum is made of 25 connected buildings in Theodore Roosevelt Park on the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, USA. It has 46 exhibition halls, a lot of laboratories, a research library, and more than 34 million specimens and artifacts.

More than 200 scientists work at the museum, researching biology, paleontology, earth science, astrophysics, and anthropology. Its graduate school awards doctorate degrees in biology and masters degrees in education. The museum also provides education programs for children and adults, including for teachers.

Hungry Allosaurus greets arriving visitors in the Main Lobby of the museum

Famous people who have worked at the museum include Teddy Roosevelt, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

American Museum Of Natural History Media

The old Romanesque Revival-style 77th Street entrance
American Museum of Natural History, NYC (2012)
This building was completed by the end of the 19th century. The buildings beside this one would be complete in the early 20th century. Currently, this building houses (first floor to fourth floor) the Grand Gallery, Birds of the World, Primates, and the Wallach Orientation Center.
The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall is the main ticketing lobby.
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
James L. Clark (right) and assistants mount specimens for the "Lions" diorama
Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals
The Indian rhinoceros diorama at Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall
The two Alaska Peninsula brown bears at the AMNH