Manhattan, United States
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain about 32 million specimens of plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time.
- City
- Manhattan
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Museum
- Suggested visit
- About 120 minutes
More places in Manhattan
- Museum of Modern Art
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Frick Collection
- Hell Gate Bridge
- Strawberry Fields
- Madison Buffalo Jump State Park
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