An institution founded in New York City in 1869. It includes the Hayden Planetarium, as well as the zoo in Bronx Park, run by the American Zoological Society.
The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York, USA, at 79th Street and Central Park West.
History
The Museum was founded in 1869.
The Museum's first home was the old Arsenal building in Central Park.
On October 29, 1964, the Star of India along with several other precious gems, including the Eagle Diamond and the de Long Ruby were stolen from the museum by several thieves including Jack Murphy, who gained entrance by climbing through a bathroom window they had unlocked hours before the museum was closed.
Features
The Museum is famous for its habitat groups of African, Asian and North American mammals, for the full-size model of a Blue Whale suspended in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life (reopened in 2003), for the 62-foot Haida carved and painted war canoe from the Pacific Northwest, and for the "Star of India", the largest blue sapphire in the world.
The Museum's anthropological collections are also outstanding: Halls of Asian Peoples and of Pacific Peoples, of Man in Africa, Native Americans in the United States collections, general Native American collections, and collections from Mexico and Central America.
The Hayden Planetarium, connected to the museum, is now part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, housed in a glass cube containing the spherical Space Theater, designed by James Stewart Polshek.
Human Biology and Evolution
The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, originally known under the name "Hall of the Age of Man", was located on the first floor of the museum.
The hall featured four life-size dioramas of the human predecessors Australopithecus afarensis, Homo ergaster, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, showing each species in its habitat and demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe it had.
Access
The museum can be easily reached by the B and C lines of the New York City subway, via a subway stop directly adjacent to the museum. Planetary Sciences
Images
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Diorama Mammals |
Diorama Mammals |
Diorama Birds |
Diorama Mammals |
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Sperm Whale |
Study of the ocean |
Dinosaurs |
Planetarium |
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Culture Hall Exhibit |
Butterfly Exhibit |
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