American Museum of Natural History travel guide

Founded in 1869, this is the oldest museum in New York. With more than 35 million exhibits it is the largest museum of natural history in the world.

The museum is housed in a building complex built in 1874–1899 by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould in the monumental Roman triumphal style; its façade, which faces Central Park, is by John Russel Pope. Guided tours to the main attractions take place daily at 10.15am, 11.15am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm, 2.15pm and 3.15pm; the meeting point is in the second floor between the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall and the Hall of African Mammals. Since the end of the 1990s the separate departments have been gradually transformed away from the dusty charm of the late 19th century and brought up to the latest standards. Especially recommended are the Hall of Biodiversity with its life-size diorama of a rainforest, the Hall of Planet Earth, which is concerned among other things with the interior of the earth, the recently converted Hall of Ocean Life and the Dinosaur department – in the foyer the Barosaurus lentus, the tallest dinosaur in the world, amazes visitors. The Rose Center for Earth and Space is connected to the museum.

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