American Museum of Natural History
About 32 million specimens live here, and you'll see only a sliver of them.
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Forty-five permanent halls spread across 21 interconnected buildings, plus a planetarium and a library, on a campus of over 2.5 million square feet that averages roughly five million visits a year.
What to look for
- The Theodore Roosevelt main entrance pavilion, added in 1936
- The Rose Center for Earth and Space, added in 2000
- The original 1877 building designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould
It sits in Theodore Roosevelt Park on the Upper West Side, across the street from Central Park.
American Museum of Natural History is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.