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American Museum of Natural History

February 05, 2023

This article is about the museum in New York City. For the museum in Washington, D.C., see National Museum of Natural History.

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens[4] of plants, animals, 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. The museum occupies more than 2×10^6 sq ft (190,000 m2). AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year,[5] and averages about five million visits annually.[6]

American Museum of Natural History
Façade of the east entrance, from Central Park West.
EstablishedApril 6, 1869; 153 years ago (1869-04-06)[1]
Location200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
United States
Coordinates40°46′51″N 73°58′28″W / 40.78083°N 73.97444°W / 40.78083; -73.97444Coordinates: 40°46′51″N 73°58′28″W / 40.78083°N 73.97444°W / 40.78083; -73.97444
TypeNatural history
Visitors5 million (2018)[2]
DirectorLisa Gugenheim
PresidentEllen V. Futter
Public transit accessNew York City Bus:
M7, M10, M11, M79
New York City Subway:
​ trains at 81st Street–Museum of Natural History
train at 79th Street
Websitewww.amnh.org
American Museum of Natural History
Built1874; 149 years ago (1874)
NRHP reference No.76001235[3]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 24, 1976
Designated NYCLAugust 24, 1967

The AMNH is a private 501(c)(3) organization.[7] Its mission statement is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and education—knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."[8]

History

See also: List of castles in the United States

Founding

The naturalist Dr. Albert S. Bickmore devised the idea for the American Museum of Natural History in 1861.[9] At the time, he was studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Louis Agassiz's Museum of Comparative Zoology.[9][10] Observing that many European natural history museums were in populous cities, Bickmore wrote in a biography: "Now New York is our city of greatest wealth and therefore probably the best location for the future museum of natural history for our whole land."[9] For several years, Bickmore lobbied for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York.[11] Upon the end of the American Civil War, Bickmore asked numerous prominent New Yorkers, such as William E. Dodge Jr., to sponsor his museum.[12][13] Although Dodge himself could not fund the museum at the time, he introduced the naturalist to Theodore Roosevelt Sr., the father of future U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.[12][14]

Calls for a natural history museum increased after Barnum's American Museum burned down in 1868.[12] Eighteen prominent New Yorkers wrote a letter to the Central Park Commission that December, requesting the creation of a natural history museum in Central Park.[10][15][16] Central Park commissioner Andrew Haswell Green indicated his support for the project in January 1869.[16][15] A board of trustees was created for the museum. The next month, Bickmore and Joseph Hodges Choate drafted a charter for the museum, which the board of trustees approved without any changes. It was in this charter that the "American Museum of Natural History" name was first used.[17] Bickmore said he wanted the museum's name to reflect his "expectation that our museum will ultimately become the leading institution of its kind in our country", similar to the British Museum.[17] Before the museum was established, Bickmore needed to secure approval from Boss Tweed, leader of the powerful and corrupt Tammany Hall political organization. The legislation to establish the American Museum of Natural History had to be signed by John Thompson Hoffman, the governor of New York, who was associated with Tweed.[18]

Hoffman signed the legislation creating the museum on April 6, 1869,[19][20] with John David Wolfe as its first president.[21][a] Subsequently, the chairman of the AMNH's executive committee asked Green if the museum could use the top two stories of Central Park's Arsenal, and Green approved the request in January 1870.[20] Insect specimens were placed on the lower level of the Arsenal,[22] while stones, fossils, mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles were placed on the upper level.[23] The museum opened within the Arsenal on May 22, 1871.[23][24] The AMNH became popular in the following years. The Arsenal location had 856,773 visitors in the first nine months of 1876 alone, more than the British Museum had recorded for all of 1874.[25]

 
Drawing of the AMNH south facade, publication 1916

Construction

 
This building was built in 1874 and opened in 1877. Currently, this building houses (first floor to fourth floor) the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians, Hall of African Peoples, the Sanford Hall of North American Birds, and Hall of Vertebrate Origins.

Meanwhile, the AMNH's directors had identified Manhattan Square (bounded by Eighth Avenue/Central Park West, 81st Street, Ninth Avenue/Columbus Avenue, and 77th Street) as a site for a permanent structure.[10][26] Several prominent New Yorkers had raised $500,000 to fund the construction of the new building. The city's park commissioners then reserved Manhattan Square as the site of the permanent museum, and another $200,000 was raised for the building fund.[27] Numerous dignitaries and officials, including U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant, attended the museum's groundbreaking ceremony on June 3, 1874.[28][29][30] The museum opened on December 22, 1877, with a ceremony attended by U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes.[31][25]

The original Victorian Gothic building was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould, both already closely identified with the architecture of Central Park.[32][33] Vaux and Mould's original plan was intended to complement the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the opposite side of Central Park.[33] The original building, as constructed, was at the center of the 77th Street frontage and consisted of a gallery measuring 112 ft (34 m) long and 200 ft (61 m) tall. This gallery contained a raised basement, three stories of exhibits, Venetian Gothic arches, and an attic with dormers and a slate roof.[25] The original structure still exists but is hidden from view by the many buildings in the complex that today occupy most of Manhattan Square.[32] The museum remains accessible through its 77th Street foyer, which has since been renamed the Grand Gallery.[34]

The full plan called for twelve pavilions similar in design to the original building. Eight pavilions would have been arranged as the sides of a square, while the remaining four would be perpendicular to each other in the interior of the square. There were to be eight towers along the perimeter of the square, as well as a 120 ft-wide (37 m) dome in the center, at the intersection of the four interior pavilions.[25][35] In each pavilion, there was to be a ground floor; the second floor was to contain a gallery; the third floor was to exhibit specimens; and the fourth floor was to be used for research.[26] Upon the intended completion of the master plan, the museum would measure 850 ft (260 m) from north to south and 650 ft (200 m) from west to east, including projections from the square.[25][35] The finished structure, with a ground area of over 18 acres (7.3 ha),[27] would have been the largest building in North America, as well as the largest museum building in the world.[33] The master plan was never fully realized;[36] by 2015, the museum consisted of 25 separate buildings that were poorly connected.[37]

Expansion and later changes

19th century

 
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 original building was soon eclipsed by the south range of the museum, designed by J. Cleaveland Cady, an exercise in rusticated brownstone neo-Romanesque, influenced by H. H. Richardson.[38] It extends 700 ft (210 m) along West 77th Street,[39] with corner towers 150 ft (46 m) tall. Its pink brownstone and granite, similar to that found at Grindstone Island in the St. Lawrence River, came from quarries at Picton Island, New York.[40]

20th century

In the early 1920s, museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn planned a new entrance for the AMNH, which was to contain a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.[41] Also around that time, the New York state government formed a commission to study the feasibility of a Roosevelt memorial.[41][42] After a dispute over whether to put the memorial in Albany or in New York City,[43] the government of New York City offered a site next to the AMNH for consideration.[44] The commission rejected a "conventional Greek mausoleum" design, instead opting to design a triumphal arch and hall in a Roman style.[41] In 1925, the AMNH's trustees hosted an architectural design competition, selecting John Russell Pope to design the memorial hall.[45][46] Construction began in 1929,[47] and the trustees approved final plans the next year.[48] J. Harry McNally was the general contractor.[49] Roosevelt's cousin, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, dedicated the memorial on January 19, 1936.[50][51]

The original building was later known as "Wing A". During the 1950s, the top floor was renovated into a library, being redecorated with what Christopher Gray of The New York Times described as "dropped ceilings and the other usual insults".[52] The ten-story Childs Frick Building, which contained the AMNH's fossil collection, was added to the museum in the 1970s.[53][54] The architect Kevin Roche and his firm Roche-Dinkeloo have been responsible for the master planning of the museum since the 1990s.[55] Various renovations to both the interior and exterior have been carried out. Renovations to the Dinosaur Hall were undertaken beginning in 1991,[55] and Roche-Dinkeloo designed the eight-story AMNH Library in 1992.[56] The museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space was completed in 2000.[57][58]

21st century

 
The old Romanesque Revival-style 77th Street entrance

The museum's lecture hall was renamed the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater in 2001 after Samuel J. LeFrak donated $8 million to the AMNH.[59] The museum's south facade, spanning 77th Street from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue, was cleaned, repaired, and re-emerged in 2009. Steven Reichl, a spokesman for the museum, said that work would include restoring 650 black-cherry window frames and stone repairs. The museum's consultant on the latest renovation was Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., an architectural and engineering firm with headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois.[38] The museum also restored the mural in Roosevelt Memorial Hall in 2010.[60]

In 2014, the museum published plans for a $325 million, 195,000 sq ft (18,100 m2) annex, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, on the Columbus Avenue side.[61] Designed by Studio Gang, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners and landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand, the new building's pink Milford granite facade will have a textural, curvilinear design inspired by natural topographical elements showcased in the museum, including "geological strata, glacier-gouged caves, curving canyons, and blocks of glacial ice," as a striking contrast to the museum's predominance of High Victorian Gothic, Richardson Romanesque and Beaux Arts architectural styles. The interior itself would contain a new entrance from Columbus Avenue north of 79th Street; a multiple-story storage structure containing specimens and objects; rooms to display these objects; an insect hall; an "interpretive" "wayfinding wall", and a theater.[37][62] This expansion was originally supposed to be north of the existing museum, occupying parts of Theodore Roosevelt Park. The expansion was relocated to the west side of the existing museum, and its footprint was reduced in size, due to opposition to construction in the park. The annex would instead replace three existing buildings along Columbus Avenue's east side, with more than 30 connections to the existing museum, and it would be six stories high, the same height as the existing buildings. The plans for the expansion were scrutinized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.[37] On October 11, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved the expansion. Construction of the Gilder Center, which was expected to break ground the next year following design development and Environmental Impact Statement stages, would entail demolition of three museum buildings built between 1874 and 1935.[62] The museum formally filed plans to construct the expansion in August 2017,[63] but due to community opposition, construction did not start until June 2019. The project is expected to be complete by 2022.[64][65]

New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt

The main entrance hall on Central Park West is formally known as the New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Completed by John Russell Pope in 1936, it is an over-scaled Beaux-Arts monument to former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.[42] The hall was originally supposed to have formed one end of an "Intermuseum Promenade" through Central Park, connecting with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the east,[66] but the promenade was never completed.[67]

The memorial hall has a pink-granite facade, which is modeled after Roman arches.[47][68] In front of the hall on Central Park West is a terrace measuring 350 ft (110 m) long, as well as a series of steps. The main entrance consists of an arch measuring 60 ft (18 m) high.[47] The underside of the arch is a coffered granite vestibule, which leads to a bronze, glass, and marble screen.[47][69] On either side of the arch are niches that contain sculptures of a bison and a bear.[69] It is flanked by two pairs of columns, which are topped by figures of American explorers John James Audubon, Daniel Boone, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark.[70][47][68] These figures were sculpted by James Earle Fraser[47] and are about 30 ft (9.1 m) high.[69] In the attic above the main archway, there is an inscription describing Roosevelt's accomplishments.[70][47] The words "Truth", "Knowledge", and "Vision" are carved into the entablature under this inscription.[70]

Fraser also designed an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt, flanked by a Native American and an African American, which originally stood outside the memorial hall. In the 21st century, the statue generated controversy due to its subordinate depiction of these figures behind Roosevelt.[71][72] This prompted AMNH officials to announce in 2020 that they would remove the statue.[73][74] The statue was removed in January 2022 and will be on a long-term loan to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.[75][76]

 
The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall is the main ticketing lobby.

The interior of the Memorial Hall measures 67 by 120 ft (20 by 37 m) across, with a barrel-vaulted ceiling measuring 100 ft (30 m) tall.[77][47][78][79] The ceiling contains octagonal coffers, while the floors are made of mosaic marble tiles.[78][80] The lowest 9 ft (2.7 m) of the walls are wainscoted in marble, above which the walls of the memorial hall are made of limestone. The top of each wall contains a marble band and a Corinthian entablature.[81] Each of the Memorial Hall's four sides contains two red-marble columns, each measuring 48 ft (15 m) tall and rising from a Botticino marble pedestal. There are rounded windows at clerestory level on the north and south walls.[81][80] William Andrew MacKay designed three 62 ft-wide (19 m) murals depicting important events in Roosevelt's life: the construction of the Panama Canal on the north wall, African exploration on the west wall, and the Treaty of Portsmouth on the south wall.[82][83] The east and west walls, contain four quotes from Roosevelt under the headings "Nature", "Manhood", "Youth", and "The State".[77][81][84]

The Memorial Hall originally connected to various classrooms, exhibition rooms, and a 600-person auditorium.[47][85] Directly underneath the Memorial Hall is an entrance to the 81st Street–Museum of Natural History station.[47] Today, the hall connects to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals and the Hall of Asian Mammals. The Memorial Hall contains four exhibits that describe Theodore Roosevelt's conservation activities in his youth, early adulthood, U.S. presidency, and post-presidency.[86]

Mammal halls

Old World mammals

Akeley Hall of African Mammals

 
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
 
James L. Clark (right) and assistants mount specimens for the "Lions" diorama

Named after taxidermist Carl Akeley, the Akeley Hall of African Mammals is a two-story hall on the second floor, directly west of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall. It connects to the Hall of African Peoples to the west.[87] The Hall of African Mammals' 28 dioramas depict in meticulous detail the great range of ecosystems found in Africa and the mammals endemic to them. The centerpiece of the hall is a pack of eight African elephants in a characteristic 'alarmed' formation.[88] Though the mammals are typically the main feature in the dioramas, birds and flora of the regions are occasionally featured as well.[89] The hall in its current form was completed in 1936.[90][91]

The Hall of African Mammals was first proposed to the museum by Carl Akeley around 1909; he proposed 40 dioramas featuring the rapidly vanishing landscapes and animals of Africa. Daniel Pomeroy, a trustee of the museum and partner at J.P. Morgan & Co., offered investors the opportunity to accompany the museum's expeditions in Africa in exchange for funding.[92] Akeley began collecting specimens for the hall as early as 1909, famously encountering Theodore Roosevelt in the midst of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African expedition.[93] On these early expeditions, Akeley was accompanied by his former apprentice in taxidermy, James L. Clark, and artist, William R. Leigh.[92] When Akeley returned to Africa to collect gorillas for the hall's first diorama, Clark remained behind and began scouring the country for artists to create the backgrounds. The eventual appearance of the first habitat groups impacted the design of other diorama halls, including Birds of the World, the Hall of North American Mammals, the Vernay Hall of Southeast Asian Mammals, and the Hall of Oceanic Life.[92]

After Akeley's unexpected death during the Eastman-Pommeroy expedition in 1926, responsibility of the hall's completion fell to James L. Clark, who hired architectural artist James Perry Wilson in 1933 to assist Leigh in the painting of backgrounds. Wilson made many improvements on Leigh's techniques, including a range of methods to minimize the distortion caused by the dioramas' curved walls.[92] In 1936, William Durant Campbell, a wealthy board member with a desire to see Africa, offered to fund several dioramas if allowed to obtain the specimens himself. Clark agreed to this arrangement, resulting in the acquisition of numerous large specimens.[92][94] Kane joined Leigh, Wilson, and several other artists in completing the hall's remaining dioramas.[95] Though construction of the hall was completed in 1936,[90][91] the dioramas gradually opened between the mid-1920s and early 1940s.[95]

Hall of Asian Mammals

 
Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals
 
The Indian rhinoceros diorama at Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall

The Hall of Asian Mammals, sometimes referred to as the Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals, is directly south of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall.[87] It contains 8 complete dioramas, 4 partial dioramas, and 6 habitat groups of mammals and locations from India, Nepal, Burma, and Malaysia. The hall opened in 1930 and, similar to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, is centered around 2 Asian elephants. At one point, a giant panda and Siberian tiger were also part of the Hall's collection, originally intended to be part of an adjoining Hall of North Asian Mammals (planned in the current location of Stout Hall of Asian Peoples). These specimens can currently be seen in the Hall of Biodiversity.[88][97]

Specimens for the Hall of Asian Mammals were collected over six expeditions led by British-born antiques dealer Arthur S. Vernay and Col. John Faunthorpe (as noted by stylized plaques at both entrances). The expeditions were funded entirely by Vernay, who characterized the expense as a British tribute to American involvement in World War I.[98] The first Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition took place in 1922, when many of the animals Vernay was seeking, such as the Sumatran rhinoceros and Asiatic lion, were facing the possibility of extinction. Vernay made many appeals to regional authorities to obtain hunting permits;[99] in later museum-related expeditions headed by Vernay, these appeals helped the museum gain access to areas previously restricted to foreign visitors.[100] Artist Clarence C. Rosenkranz accompanied the Vernay-Faunthorpe expeditions as field artist and painted the majority of the diorama backgrounds in the hall.[101] These expeditions were also well documented in both photo and video, with enough footage of the first expedition to create a feature-length film, Hunting Tigers in India (1929).[102]

New World mammals

 
The two Alaska Peninsula brown bears at the AMNH

Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals

 
Alaska moose diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals

The Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals is on the first floor, directly west of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall.[87] features 43 dioramas of various mammals of the American continent, north of tropical Mexico. Each diorama places focus on a particular species, ranging from the largest megafauna to the smaller rodents and carnivorans. Notable dioramas include the Alaskan brown bears looking at a salmon after they scared off an otter, a pair of wolves, a pair of Sonoran jaguars, and dueling bull Alaska moose.

The Hall of North American Mammals opened in 1942 with only ten dioramas.[103] Another 16 dioramas were added in 1963.[104] A massive restoration project began in late 2011 following a large donation from Jill and Lewis Bernard.[105][106] In October 2012 the hall was reopened as the Bernard Hall of North American Mammals.[107]

Hall of Small Mammals

The Hall of Small Mammals is an offshoot of the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, directly to the west of the latter.[87] There are several small dioramas featuring small mammals found throughout North America, including collared peccaries, Abert's squirrel, and a wolverine.

Birds, reptiles, and amphibian halls

Sanford Hall of North American Birds

 
The Cuthbert Rookery Diorama contains many of the birds once endangered by plume hunting.

The Sanford Hall of North American birds is a one-story hall on the third floor, between the Hall of Primates and Akeley Hall's second level.[87] There are over 20 dioramas depicting birds from across North America in their native habitats.[108] At the far end of the hall are two large murals by ornithologist and artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes.[109] The hall also has display cases devoted to large collections of warblers, owls, and raptors.

Conceived by museum ornithologist Frank Chapman, the Hall is named for Chapman's friend and amateur ornithologist Leonard C. Sanford, who partially funded the hall and also donated the entirety of his own bird specimen collection to the museum. Construction began on the hall's dioramas as early as 1902, and the dioramas opened in 1909. They were the first to be exhibited in the museum and are the oldest still on display.[110] The hall was refurbished in 1962.[111]

Although Chapman was not the first to create museum dioramas, he was the first to bring artists into the field with him in the hopes of capturing a specific location at a specific time. In contrast to the dramatic scenes that Akeley created for the African Hall, Chapman wanted his dioramas to evoke a scientific realism, ultimately serving as a historical record of habitats and species facing a high probability of extinction.[110] Each of Chapman's dioramas depicted a species, their nests, and 4 ft (1.2 m) of the surrounding habitat in each direction.[112]

Hall of Birds of the World

The Hall of Birds of the World is on the south side of the second floor.[87] The global diversity of bird species is exhibited in this hall. 12 dioramas showcase various ecosystems around the world and provide a sample of the varieties of birds that live there. Example dioramas include South Georgia featuring king penguins and skuas, the East African plains featuring secretarybirds and bustards, and the Australian outback featuring honeyeaters, cockatoos, and kookaburras.[113]

Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds

This particular hall has undergone a complicated history over the years since its founding in 1953. Frank Chapman and Leonard C. Sanford, originally museum volunteers, had gone forward with creation of a hall to feature birds of the Pacific islands. In the years up to its founding, the museum had engaged in various expeditions to Fiji, New Zealand, and the Marianas (among other locations) to collect birds for the exhibit. The hall was designed as a completely immersive collection of dioramas, including a circular display featuring birds-of-paradise. In 1998, The Butterfly Conservatory was installed inside the hall originally as a temporary exhibit, but as the popular demand of the exhibit increased, the Hall of Oceanic Birds has more or less remained closed by the museum.

Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians

The Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians is near the southeast corner of the third floor.[87] It serves as an introduction to herpetology, with many exhibits detailing reptile evolution, anatomy, diversity, reproduction, and behavior. Notable exhibits include a Komodo dragon group, an American alligator, Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, and poison dart frogs.[114]

 
The Komodo dragon diorama featuring a group feeding on a wild boar carcass in the Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians.

In 1926, W. Douglas Burden, F.J. Defosse, and Emmett Reid Dunn collected specimens of the Komodo Dragon for the museum. Burden's chapter "The Komodo Dragon", in Look to the Wilderness, describes the expedition, the habitat, and the behavior of the dragon.[115] The hall opened in 1927[116] and was rebuilt from 1969 to 1977 at a cost of $1.3 million.[117]

Biodiversity and environmental halls

Hall of Biodiversity

The Hall of Biodiversity is underneath the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall.[87] It opened in May 1998. The hall primarily contains exhibits and objects highlighting the concept of biodiversity, the interactions between living organisms, and the negative impacts of extinction on biodiversity.[118][119] The hall includes a 2,500 sq ft (230 m2) diorama depicting the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve rainforest with over 160 animal and plant species.[119][120] The diorama shows the rainforest in three states: pristine, altered by human activity, and destroyed by human activity.[118][119] Another attraction in the hall is "The Spectrum of Habitats", a video wall displaying footage of nine ecosystems. There is a "Transformation Wall", containing information and stories detailing changes to biodiversity, and a "Solutions Wall", containing suggestions on how to increase biodiversity.[119]

Hall of North American Forests

 
The Mixed Deciduous Forest diorama

The Hall of North American Forests is a one-story hall on the museum's first floor in between the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall and the Warburg Hall of New York State Environments.[87] It contains ten dioramas depicting a range of forest types from across North America as well as several displays on forest conservation and tree health. The hall was constructed under the guidance of botanist Henry K. Svenson[121] and opened in 1958.[122] Each diorama specifically lists both the location and exact time of year depicted.[121] Trees and plants featured in the dioramas are constructed of a combination of art supplies and actual bark and other specimens collected in the field. The entrance to the hall features a cross section from the Mark Twain Tree, 1,400-year-old sequoia taken from the King's River grove on the west flank of the Sierra Mountains in 1891.[123]

 
The Juniper Forest diorama

Warburg Hall of New York State Environments

 
"Spring" display in Warburg Hall

Warburg Hall of New York State Environments is a one-story hall on the museum's ground floor in between the Hall of North American Forests and the Grand Hall.[87] Based on the town of Pine Plains and near-by Stissing Mountain in Dutchess County,[124] the hall gives a multi-faceted presentation of the eco-systems typical of New York. Aspects covered include soil types, seasonal changes, and the impact of both humans and nonhuman animals on the environment. It is named for the German-American philanthropist, Felix M. Warburg. Originally known as the "Hall of Man and Nature", Warburg Hall opened in 1951.[124] It has changed little since and is now frequently regarded for its retro-modern styling.[125] The hall shares many of the exhibit types featured throughout the museum as well as one display type, unique to Warburg, which features a recessed miniature diorama behind a foreground of species and specimens from the environment depicted.

Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

 
Model of a blue whale in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life

The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life is in the southeastern quadrant of the first floor, west of the Hall of Biodiversity.[87] It focuses on marine biology, botany and marine conservation. The center of the hall contains a 94 ft (29 m)-long blue whale model.[126] The upper level of the hall exhibits the vast array of ecosystems present in the ocean. Dioramas compare and contrast the life in these different settings including polar seas, kelp forests, mangroves, coral reefs and the bathypelagic. It attempts to show how vast and varied the oceans are while encouraging common themes throughout.[127] The lower half of the hall consists of 15 large dioramas of larger marine organisms.[128] It is on this level that the famous "Squid and the Whale" diorama sits, depicting a hypothetical fight between the two creatures.[127] Other notable exhibits in this hall include the two-level Andros Coral Reef Diorama.[128][129] Upper dioramas are smaller versions of the ecosystems when the bottom versions are much bigger and more life like.

In 1910, museum president Henry F. Osborn proposed the construction of a large building in the museum's southeast courtyard to house a new Hall of Ocean Life in which "models and skeletons of whales" would be exhibited.[130] The hall opened in 1924[128] and was renovated in 1962.[111] In 1969, a renovation gave the hall a more explicit focus on oceanic megafauna, including the addition of a lifelike blue whale model to replace a popular steel and papier-mâché whale model that had hung in the Biology of Mammals hall. Richard Van Gelder oversaw the creation of the hall in its current incarnation.[130] The hall was renovated once again in 2003, this time with environmentalism and conservation being the main focal points, and was renamed after developer Paul Milstein and AMNH board member Irma Milstein. The 2003 renovation included refurbishment of the famous blue whale, suspended high above the 19,000 sq ft (1,800 m2) exhibit floor; updates to the 1930s and 1960s dioramas; and electronic displays.[112] The whale's flukes and fins were readjusted, a navel was added, and it was repainted from a dull gray to various rich shades of blue.

Human origins and cultural halls

Cultural halls

Stout Hall of Asian Peoples

The Stout Hall of Asian Peoples is a one-story hall on the museum's second floor in between the Hall of Asian Mammals and Birds of the World.[87] It is named for Gardner D. Stout, a former president of the museum, and was primarily organized by Dr. Walter A. Fairservis, a longtime museum archaeologist. Opened in 1980, Stout Hall is the museum's largest anthropological hall and contains artifacts acquired by the museum between 1869 and the mid-1970s.[131] Many famous expeditions sponsored by the museum are associated with the artifacts in the hall, including the Roy Chapman Andrews expeditions in Central Asia and the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin expedition.[132]

Stout Hall has two sections: Ancient Eurasia, a small section devoted to the evolution of human civilization in Eurasia, and Traditional Asia, a much larger section containing cultural artifacts from across the Asian continent. The latter section is organized to geographically correspond with two major trade routes of the Silk Road. Like many of the museum's exhibition halls, the artifacts in Stout Hall are presented in a variety of ways including exhibits, miniature dioramas, and five full-scale dioramas. Notable exhibits in the Ancient Eurasian section include reproductions from the archaeological sites of Teshik-Tash and Çatalhöyük, as well as a full size replica of a Hammurabi Stele. The Traditional Asia section contains areas devoted to major Asian countries, such as Japan, China, Tibet, and India, while also including a vast array of smaller Asian tribes including the Ainu, Semai, and Yakut.[133]

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    A forced perspective, miniature diorama of Isfahan

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    A Yakut shaman performs a healing rite in this diorama

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    A range of costumes worn by women in Islamic Asia

Hall of African Peoples

 
Diorama depicting Pokot methods of animal husbandry
 
Spiritual costumes from a variety of African tribes

The Hall of African Peoples is behind Akeley Hall of African Mammals and underneath Sanford Hall of North American Birds.[87] It is organized by the four major ecosystems found in Africa: River Valley, Grasslands, Forest-Woodland, and Desert. Each section presents artifacts and exhibits of the peoples native to the ecosystems throughout Africa. The hall contains three dioramas and notable exhibits include a large collection of spiritual costumes on display in the Forest-Woodland section. Uniting the sections of the hall is a multi-faceted comparison of African societies based on hunting and gathering, cultivation, and animal domestication. Each type of society is presented in a historical, political, spiritual, and ecological context. A small section of African diaspora spread by the slave trade is also included.[134] Tribes and civilizations featured include:

Hall of Mexico and Central America

 
Zapotec burial urns from Monte Albán

The Hall of Mexico and Central America is a one-story hall on the museum's second floor behind Birds of the World and before the Hall of South American Peoples.[87] It presents archaeological artifacts from a broad range of pre-Columbian civilizations that once existed across Middle America, including the Maya, Olmec, Zapotec, and Aztec. Because most of these civilizations did not leave behind recorded writing or have any contact with Western civilization, the overarching aim of the hall is to piece together what it is possible to know about them from the artifacts alone.

The museum has displayed pre-Columbian artifacts since its opening, only a short time after the discovery of the civilizations by archaeologists, with its first hall dedicated to the subject opening in 1899.[135] As the museum's collection grew, the hall underwent major renovations in 1944 and again in 1970 when it re-opened in its current form.[136][137] Notable artifacts on display include the Kunz Axe and a full-scale replica of Tomb 104 from the Monte Albán archaeological site, originally displayed at the 1939 World's Fair.

Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples

 
A fiberglass cast of a moai in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples

The Hall of Pacific Peoples is on the southwestern corner of the third floor, accessed through the Hall of Plains Indians.[138] The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead had founded the Hall of Pacific Peoples in 1971.[139] From the time Mead began curatorial work on the hall in 1945, she conceived an exhibit environment that would emulate sights and sounds from the Pacific regions on display.[140] After Mead's death in 1978, the hall reopened in December 1984 as the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples.[141][142] The new hall, designed by Eugene Burgmann, maintained the blue-themed ocean and sky ambiance of the original hall.[140] The hall was once again closed in 1997 and reopened in 2001 with an updated design that retained the geocultural "alcoves" first installed with the 1984 remodel.[143]

 
Balinese wayang puppets collected by Mead and Bateson on display with photograph of puppet maker by Bateson.

The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples contains artifacts from New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Micronesia, Melanesia and other Pacific islands.[144][145][146] Mead had collected 250 of the 1,500 items in the hall. Some of these were probably selected from the 3,284 items she collected for the American Museum of Natural History during fieldwork in New Guinea and other Pacific island locations, 1928-1939.[147] Others, such as the theatrical set from a puppet play in Bali, were chosen from among the approximately 600 items that Mead and her anthropologist husband Gregory Bateson had sent to the American Museum of Natural History while they were conducting fieldwork in Bali, 1936-1938.[146] The exhibits in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples also include a fiberglass cast of an Easter Island moai statue and capes made of honeycreeper feathers.[145]

Native American halls

Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
 
Kwakwaka'wakw House Posts

The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians is a one-story hall on the museum's ground floor behind the Grand Gallery and in between Warburg and Spitzer Halls.[87] it is the museum's oldest hall, having been established in 1899 by anthropologist Franz Boas as the Jesup North Pacific Hall.[148][149] The hall now contains artifacts and exhibits of the tribes of the North Pacific Coast cultural region (Southern Alaska, Northern Washington, and a portion of British Columbia). Featured prominently in the hall are four "House Posts" from the Kwakwaka'wakw nation and murals by William S. Taylor depicting native life.[150] As of 2022, there are 9,000 items in total, including 78 totem poles,[148] as well as a Haida canoe suspended from the ceiling (relocated from the Grand Gallery in 2020).[151][152] The artifacts are accompanied by text in numerous Native American languages.[149]

 
Nuxalk Masks

Artifacts in the hall originated from three main sources. The earliest of these was a gift of Haida artifacts collected by John Wesley Powell and donated by Herbert Bishop in 1882. This was followed by the museum's purchase of two collections of Tlingit artifacts collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in 1888 and 1894.[153] The remainder of the hall's artifacts were collected during the famed Jesup North Pacific Expedition between 1897 and 1902.[154][155] Led by Boas and financed by museum president Morris Ketchum Jesup, the expedition was the first for the museum's Division of Anthropology and is now considered the "foremost expedition in American anthropology".[155] Many famous ethnologists took part, including George Hunt, who secured the Kwakwaka'wakw House Posts that currently stand in the hall.[156] Other tribes featured in the hall include Coastal Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth, Tsimshian, and Nuxalk.[157]

At the time of its opening, the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians was one of four halls dedicated to the native peoples of United States and Canada. It was originally organized in two sections, the first being a general area pertaining to all peoples of the region and the second a specialized area divided by tribe. This was a point of contention for Boas who wanted all artifacts in the hall to be associated with the proper tribe (much like it is currently organized), eventually leading to the dissolution of Boas's relationship with the museum.[153][158] In May 2022, the hall reopened after a five-year, $19 million renovation, with more than 1,000 artifacts on view. The new display includes work from contemporary artists such as Greg Colfax KlaWayHee and Robert Davidson.[159][160]

Hall of Plains Indians

The Hall of Plains Indians is on the south side of the third floor, near the western end of the museum.[87] This hall opened in February 1967.[161][162] The primary focus of this hall is the North American Great Plains peoples as they were at the middle of the 19th century, including depictions of Blackfeet (see also: Blackfoot Confederacy), Hidatsa, and Dakota cultures. Of particular interest is a Folsom point discovered in 1926 New Mexico, providing evidence of early American colonization of the Americas. [163]

Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians

The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians is next to the Hall of Plains Indians, on the south side of the third floor.[87] This hall opened in May 1966.[164] It details the lives and technology of traditional Native American peoples in the woodland environments of eastern North America. These include Cree, Mohegan, Ojibwe, and Iroquois cultures. The exhibit features examples of indigenous basketry, pottery, farming techniques, food preparation, metal jewelry, musical instruments, and textiles. Other highlights include a model of a Menominee birchbark canoe and various traditional lodgings such as an Ojibwa domed wigwam, an Iroquois longhouse, a Creek council house, and other eastern woodland dwelling styles.[165]

Human origins halls

Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins

Main article: Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins

The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, formerly The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, is on the south side of the first floor, near the western end of the museum.[87] It opened under its current name on February 10, 2007.[166][167] When it first opened in 1921, the hall was known as the "Hall of the Age of Man", the only major exhibition in the United States to present an in-depth investigation of human evolution.[168] The displays traced the story of Homo sapiens, illuminated the path of human evolution and examined the origins of human creativity.[169]

Many of the displays from the original hall can still be viewed in the present expanded format. These include life-size dioramas of our human predecessors Australopithecus afarensis, Homo ergaster, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, showing each species demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe they were capable of. Also displayed are full-sized casts of important fossils, including the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man.[169] The hall also features replicas of ice age art found in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. The limestone carvings of horses were made nearly 26,000 years ago and are considered to represent some of the earliest artistic expression of humans.[167]

Earth and planetary science halls

Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites

 
Cape York Meteorite

The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites is on the southwest corner of the first floor.[87] It contains some of the finest specimens in the world including Ahnighito, a section of the 200-ton Cape York meteorite which was first made known to non-Inuit cultures on their investigation of Meteorite Island, Greenland. Its great weight, 34 tons, makes it the largest displayed in the Northern Hemisphere.[170] It has support by columns that extend through the floor and into the bedrock below the museum.[171]

The hall also contains extra-solar nanodiamonds (diamonds with dimensions on the nanometer level) more than 5 billion years old. These were extracted from a meteorite sample through chemical means, and they are so small that a quadrillion of these fit into a volume smaller than a cubic centimeter.[172]

Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals

Main article: Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals

The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals) is on the first floor, north of the Ross Hall of Meteorites.[87] It houses thousands of rare gems, minerals specimens and pieces of jewelry. The halls closed in 2017 to undergo a $32 million redesign by Ralph Appelbaum Associates and reopened to the general public in June 2021.[173][174] The redesigned exhibits adopt newer philosophies in exhibit design, including a focus on storytelling, interactivity, and connecting ideas across disciplines. The halls explore a range of topics, including the diversification of mineral species over the course of Earth's history, plate tectonics, and the stories of specific gems.[175]

The halls display rare samples chosen from among the more than 100,000 pieces in the museum's collection including the Star of India, the Patricia Emerald, and the DeLong Star Ruby.[176]

David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth

The David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth is on the first floor at the northeast corner of the museum.[87] Opened in 1999, it is a permanent hall devoted to the history of Earth, from accretion to the origin of life and contemporary human impacts on the planet. The hall was designed to answer five key questions: "How has earth evolved? Why are there ocean basins, continents and mountains? How do scientists read rocks? What causes climate and climate change? Why is earth habitable?"[177][178] The hall features rocks and other objects collected over 28 expeditions; the oldest rock is 4.3 billion years old, while the youngest was collected from a volcano on the day that it solidified. There is also a 30-seat granite amphitheater, with a globe, at the center of the hall.[178]

Several sections also discuss the studies of Earth systems, including geology, glaciology, atmospheric sciences, and volcanology. The exhibit has several large, touchable rock specimens. The hall features striking samples of banded iron and deformed conglomerate rocks, as well as granites, sandstones, lavas, and three black smokers. The north section of the hall, which deals primarily with plate tectonics, is arranged to mimic the Earth's structure, with the core and mantle at the center and crustal features on the perimeter.[179]

Fossil halls

 
Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
 
Skeleton of Styracosaurus

Storage facilities

Most of the museum's collections of mammalian and dinosaur fossils remain hidden from public view and are kept in many repositories deep within the museum complex.[53] The most significant storage facility among these is the ten-story Childs Frick Building, which started construction in 1969[180] and was completed in 1973.[53][54] When the Frick Building was completed, the museum's collection of fossilized mammals and dinosaurs was the world's largest such collection, weighing 600 short tons (540 long tons; 540 t). The Frick Building's top three floors contain laboratories and offices.[181]

Other areas of the museum contain repositories of life from the past. The Whale Bone Storage Room is a cavernous space in which powerful winches come down from the ceiling to move the giant fossil bones about. The museum attic upstairs includes even more storage facilities, such as the Elephant Room, while the tusk vault and boar vault are downstairs from the attic.[182]

Public displays

The great fossil collections that are open to public view occupy the entire fourth floor of the museum.[87] The fourth floor exhibits are accessed by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center, which opened in 1996.[183] On the 77th Street side of the museum the visitor begins in the Orientation Center and follows a carefully marked path, which takes the visitor along an evolutionary tree of life. As the tree "branches" the visitor is presented with the familial relationships among vertebrates, called cladograms. A video projection on the museum's fourth floor introduces visitors to the concept of the cladogram.[184][183]

Many of the fossils on display represent unique and historic pieces that were collected during the museum's golden era of worldwide expeditions (1880s–1930s).[19] On a smaller scale, expeditions continue into the present and have resulted in additions to the collections from Vietnam, Madagascar, South America, and central and eastern Africa.

Halls

The 4th floor includes the following halls:[185]

  • Hall of Vertebrate Origins
  • Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs (recognized by their grasping hand, long mobile neck, and the downward/forward position of the pubis bone, they are forerunners of the modern bird)[186]
  • Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs (defined for a pubic bone that points toward the back)
  • Hall of Primitive Mammals
  • Hall of Advanced Mammals

The dinosaur halls were temporarily closed for renovation starting in 1990.[187] The first halls to reopen were the primitive-mammal and advanced-mammal halls, part of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which opened in 1994.[188][189] The Halls of Saurischian Dinosaurs and Ornithischian Dinosaurs reopened in 1995 as part of a $12 million expansion.[190][191] The Hall of Vertebrate Origins opened in 1996.[183]

Fossils on display

 
Edmontosaurus annectens fossil skeletons

The many outstanding fossils on display include, among others:

  • Tyrannosaurus rex: Composed almost entirely of real fossil bones, it is mounted in a horizontal stalking pose balanced on powerful legs. The specimen is actually composed of fossil bones from two T. rex skeletons discovered in Montana in 1902 and 1908 by famous dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown.[192]
  • Mammuthus: Larger than its relative the woolly mammoth, these fossils are from an animal that lived 11,000 years ago in Indiana.[193]
  • Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus: This giant specimen was discovered at the end of the 19th century. Although most of its fossil bones are original, the skull is not, since none was found on site. The skeleton is composed primarily of the specimen AMNH 460, as well as specimens AMNH 222, AMNH 339, AMNH 592, and casts of the Brontosaurus excelsus holotype YPM 1980.[194][195] It was only many years later that the first Apatosaurus skull was discovered, and so a plaster cast of that skull was made and placed on the museum's mount. A Camarasaurus skull had been used mistakenly until a correct skull was found.[196] It is not entirely certain whether this specimen is a Brontosaurus or an Apatosaurus, and therefore it is considered an "unidentified apatosaurine", as it could also potentially be its own genus and species.[195]
  • Brontops: Extinct mammal distantly related to the horse and rhinoceros. It lived 35 million years ago in what is now South Dakota. It is noted for its magnificent and unusual pair of horns.[197]
  • A skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur. The specimen is an example of a "mummified" dinosaur fossil in which the soft tissue and skin impressions were imbedded in the surrounding rock. The specimen is mounted as it was found, lying on its side with its legs drawn up and head drawn backwards.[198]
  • On September 26, 2007, an 80-million-year-old, 2 ft (61 cm) diameter fossil of an ammonite, which is composed entirely of the gemstone ammolite, made its debut at the museum. Neil Landman, curator of fossil invertebrates, explained that ammonites (shelled cephalopod mollusks in the subclass Ammonoidea) became extinct 66 million years ago, in the same extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Korite International donated the fossil after its discovery in Alberta, Canada.[199]
  • One skeleton of an Allosaurus scavenging from a Brontosaurus corpse based on fossils found at Bone Cabin Quarry preserving large bite marks on Apatosaurine vertebrae.[200][201][202]
  • The only known skull of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis.[203]
  • A display of various species of ground sloths including Megalocnus rodens, Scelidotherium cuvieri, Megalonyx wheatleyi and Glossotherium robustus
 
A display of various species of ground sloths (from left) Megalocnus rodens, Scelidotherium cuvieri, Megalonyx wheatleyi, Glossotherium robustus

A Triceratops and a Stegosaurus are also both on display, among many other specimens.

Besides the fossils in museum display, many specimens are stored in the collections available for scientists. Those include important specimens such as complete diplodocid skull,[204] tyrannosaurid teeth, sauropod vertebrae, and many holotypes.

Rose Center for Earth and Space

 
Rose Center for Earth and Space
Main article: Rose Center for Earth and Space

The Hayden Planetarium, connected to the museum, is now part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space on the north side of the museum.[87] The original Hayden Planetarium was founded in 1933 with a donation by philanthropist Charles Hayden, and it opened in 1935.[205] The AMNH announced the modern Rose Center for Earth and Space in early 1995,[36] and demolition began the same year.[206]

The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space was completed in 2000 at a cost of $210 million.[57][58] Designed by James Stewart Polshek, the new building consists of a six-story high glass cube enclosing an 87 ft (27 m) illuminated sphere that appears to float, although it is actually supported by truss work. Polshek has referred to his work as a "cosmic cathedral".[57] The sphere is known as the Space Theater.[207]

The facility encloses 333,500 sq ft (30,980 m2) of research, education, and exhibition space as well as the Hayden planetarium. Also in the facility is the Department of Astrophysics, the newest academic research department in the museum. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium. In addition, Polshek designed the 1,800 sq ft (170 m2) Weston Pavilion, a 43 ft (13 m) high transparent structure of "water white" glass along the museum's west facade. This structure, a small companion piece to the Rose Center, offers a new entry way to the museum as well as opening further exhibition space for astronomically related objects.[208] The Heilbrun Cosmic Pathway is one of the most popular exhibits in the Rose Center.[166]

Exhibitions Lab

Main article: AMNH Exhibitions Lab

Founded in 1869, the AMNH Exhibitions Lab has since produced thousands of installations. The department is notable for its integration of new scientific research into immersive art and multimedia presentations. In addition to the famous dioramas at its home museum and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the lab has also produced international exhibitions and software such as the Digital Universe Atlas.[209]

The exhibitions team currently consists of over sixty artists, writers, preparators, designers and programmers. The department is responsible for the creation of two to three exhibits per year. These extensive shows typically travel nationally to sister natural history museums. They have produced, among others, the first exhibits to discuss Darwinian evolution,[168] human-induced climate change[210] and the mesozoic mass extinction via asteroid.

Research Library

The Research Library is open to staff and public visitors, and is on the fourth floor of the museum.[211]

The Library collects materials covering such subjects as mammalogy, earth and planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, anthropology, entomology, herpetology, ichthyology, paleontology, ethology, ornithology, mineralogy, invertebrates, systematics, ecology, oceanography, conchology, exploration and travel, history of science, museology, bibliography, genomics, and peripheral biological sciences. The collection is rich in retrospective materials — some going back to the 15th century — that are difficult to find elsewhere.[212]

History

In its early years, the Library expanded its collection mostly through such gifts as the John C. Jay conchological library, the Carson Brevoort library on fishes and general zoology, the ornithological library of Daniel Giraud Elliot, the Harry Edwards entomological library, the Hugh Jewett collection of voyages and travel and the Jules Marcou geology collection. In 1903 the American Ethnological Society deposited its library in the museum and in 1905 the New York Academy of Sciences followed suit by transferring its collection of 10,000 volumes.

Today, the Library's collections contain over 550,000 volumes of monographs, serials, pamphlets, reprints, microforms, and original illustrations, as well as film, photographic, archives and manuscripts, fine art, memorabilia and rare book collections.

The new Library was designed by the firm Roche-Dinkeloo in 1992. The space is 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) and includes five different 'conservation zones', ranging from the 50-person reading room and public offices, to temperature and humidity controlled rooms.[213]

Special collections

  • Institutional Archives, Manuscripts, and Personal Papers: Includes archival documents, field notebooks, clippings and other documents relating to the museum, its scientists and staff, scientific expeditions and research, museum exhibitions, education, and general administration.[214]
  • Art and Memorabilia Collection.[215]
  • Moving Image Collection.[216]
  • Vertical Files: Relating to exhibitions, expeditions, and museum operations.[217]

Activities offered

Research activities

 
A matrix barcode that uniquely identifies a specimen in the museum's entomology collection.

The museum has a scientific staff of more than 225, and sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year. Many of the fossils on display represent unique and historic pieces that were collected during the museum's golden era of worldwide expeditions (1880s–1930s). Examples of some of these expeditions, financed in whole or part by the AMNH are: Jesup North Pacific Expedition, the Whitney South Seas Expedition, the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, the Crocker Land Expedition, and the expeditions to Madagascar and New Guinea by Richard Archbold. On a smaller scale, expeditions continue into the present. The museum also publishes several peer-reviewed journals, including the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.[218]

Educational outreach

AMNH's education programs include outreach to schools in New York City by the Moveable Museum.[219]

Additionally, the Museum itself offers a wide variety of educational programs, camps, and classes for students from pre-K to post-graduate levels. Notably, the Museum sponsors the Lang Science Program, a comprehensive 5th–12th grade research and science education program, and the Science Research Mentorship Program (SRMP), among the most prestigious paid internships in NYC, in which pairs of students conduct a full year of intensive original research with an AMNH scientist.[220]

Richard Gilder Graduate School

The AMNH offers a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Earth Science[221] and a PhD in Comparative Biology.[222][223]

On October 23, 2006, the museum launched the Richard Gilder Graduate School, which offers a PhD in Comparative Biology, becoming the first American museum in the United States to award doctoral degrees in its own name. Accredited in 2009, in 2011 the graduate school had 11 students enrolled, who work closely with curators and they have access to the collections.[224][225][226] The first seven graduates to complete the program were awarded their degrees on September 30, 2013.[227] The dean of the graduate school is AMNH paleontologist John J. Flynn, and the namesake and major benefactor is Richard Gilder.

The MAT Earth Science Residency program was launched in 2012 to address a critical shortage of qualified science teachers in New York State, particularly in high-needs schools with diverse populations. In 2015, the MAT program officially joined the Richard Gilder Graduate School, with the NYS Board of Regents authorizing the Gilder School to grant the MAT degree. The program has about 16 graduates complete the program each year.

Southwestern Research Station

The AMNH operates a biological field station in Portal, Arizona, among the Chiricahua Mountains. The Southwestern Research Station was established in 1955, purchased with a grant from philanthropist David Rockefeller, and with entomologist Mont Cazier as its first director.[228] The station, in a "biodiversity hotspot," is used by researchers and students, and offers occasional seminars to the public.[229]

Notable people

Presidents

The museum's first three presidents were all cofounders.[16][17] John David Wolfe served from 1869 until his death in 1872;[230] he was followed by Robert L. Stuart, who resigned in 1881.[231][232] The third president, Morris K. Jesup, was president for over 25 years, serving until his death in 1908.[233] Upon his death, Jesup bequeathed $1 million to the museum.[234]

The fourth president, Henry Fairfield Osborn, was appointed on the death of Jesup; he consolidated the museum's expansion and developed it further.[233] After Osborn resigned in 1933, F. Trubee Davison became the AMNH's fifth president.[235][236] Davison stepped down in 1951, and Alexander M. White was elected as the museum's president.[237] Gardner D. Stout then served as president from 1968 to 1975, when Robert Guestier Goelet was elected in his place.[238] Goelet served until 1987, when he was placed on the board of trustees. He was succeeded by George D. Langdon Jr., the first president in the museum's history to receive a salary; all previous presidents had served without pay.[239]

Ellen Futter

Ellen V. Futter has been president of the museum since 1993.[240][241] Futter is the first woman to serve as the AMNH's president.[240] The board began searching for a new president in June 2022, after Futter announced that she planned to step down when the Gilder Center opened in March 2023.[242]

Sean M. Decatur

Sean M. Decatur was named as Futter's successor on Dec. 7, 2022. Decatur will become the first Africian-American president of the museum when he begins work on April 3, 2023.[243]

Other associated names

Famous names associated with the museum include the dinosaur-hunter of the Gobi Desert, Roy Chapman Andrews (one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones);[244] photographer Yvette Borup Andrews; George Gaylord Simpson; biologist Ernst Mayr; pioneer cultural anthropologists Franz Boas and Margaret Mead; explorer and geographer Alexander H. Rice, Jr.; and ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy.

Surroundings

The museum is at 79th Street and Central Park West. There is a direct entrance into the museum from the New York City Subway's 81st Street–Museum of Natural History station, served by the B and ​C trains.[245]

On a pedestal outside the museum's Columbus Avenue entrance is a stainless steel time capsule, which was created after a design competition that was won by Santiago Calatrava. The capsule was sealed at the beginning of 2000, to mark the beginning of the 3rd millennium. It takes the form of a folded saddle-shaped volume, symmetrical on multiple axes, that explores formal properties of folded spherical frames. Calatrava described it as "a flower". The plan is that the capsule will be opened in the year 3000.[246]

The museum is in a 17-acre (69,000 m2) city park known as Theodore Roosevelt Park that extends from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue, and from West 77th to 81st Streets and that contains park benches, gardens and lawns, and also a dog run.[247]

In popular culture

The museum is featured in many works of art and popular culture.

Literature

Film

  • A large portion of the 2017 film Wonderstruck takes place in the museum, showing the museum in 1927 as well as 1977.[249]
  • The museum in the film Night at the Museum (2006) is based on a 1993 book that was set at the AMNH (The Night at the Museum). The interior scenes were shot at a sound stage in Vancouver, British Columbia, but exterior shots of the museum's facade were done at the actual AMNH. AMNH officials have credited the movie with increasing the number of visitors during the holiday season in 2006 by almost 20 percent.[250] Its sequels, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), were also partially set in this museum.
  • The 2005 movie The Squid and the Whale takes its name from the diorama of the giant squid and the sperm whale in the museum's Hall of Ocean Life. The diorama is shown in the film's final scene.
  • An ending for the 1993 film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story shows all four dinosaurs finally reaching the AMNH.
  • Scenes from the horror film Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and the biographic film Malcolm X (1992) were filmed in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals.
  • In the 1955 Czechoslovak film, Journey to the Beginning of Time, (Czech: Cesta do pravěku, literally "Journey into prehistory") the four boys end their journey on a bench inside the AMNH's 77th St. entrance, beneath the exhibit of the long-boat, in which they'd had their adventure. While the story could be dismissed as a dream, one boy's journal has somehow suffered all the wear-&-tear of their journey through prehistoric eras. A dubbed and partly re-filmed US version of the film was released in 1966 under the title 'Journey to the Beginning of Time'.
  • An early scene of Howard Hawks' 1938 film Bringing Up Baby is set in the museum.
  • The 1914 popular silent cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur was set in the Museum.

Television

Many episodes of television sitcoms and dramas have been set in the museum.

Video games

Gallery

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    Bengal tiger at the American Museum of Natural History

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    Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals

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    Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals

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    Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals

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    Butterfly Conservatory

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    Display in Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

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    Tibetan Vajrapani statue

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    Tibetan Kalachakra statue

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    The museum's south range, and some of the west façade, in the 1920s

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    American bison and pronghorn diorama (right)

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    Night view of the museum, looking northwest from across Central Park West

See also

References

Notes

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This article is about the museum in New York City For the museum in Washington D C see National Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History abbreviated as AMNH is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City In Theodore Roosevelt Park across the street from Central Park the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls in addition to a planetarium and a library The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens 4 of plants animals 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 The museum occupies more than 2 10 6 sq ft 190 000 m2 AMNH has a full time scientific staff of 225 sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year 5 and averages about five million visits annually 6 American Museum of Natural HistoryFacade of the east entrance from Central Park West EstablishedApril 6 1869 153 years ago 1869 04 06 1 Location200 Central Park West New York NY 10024United StatesCoordinates40 46 51 N 73 58 28 W 40 78083 N 73 97444 W 40 78083 73 97444 Coordinates 40 46 51 N 73 58 28 W 40 78083 N 73 97444 W 40 78083 73 97444TypeNatural historyVisitors5 million 2018 2 DirectorLisa GugenheimPresidentEllen V FutterPublic transit accessNew York City Bus M7 M10 M11 M79New York City Subway trains at 81st Street Museum of Natural History train at 79th StreetWebsitewww wbr amnh wbr orgAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryU S National Register of Historic PlacesNYC LandmarkBuilt1874 149 years ago 1874 NRHP reference No 76001235 3 Significant datesAdded to NRHPJune 24 1976Designated NYCLAugust 24 1967The AMNH is a private 501 c 3 organization 7 Its mission statement is To discover interpret and disseminate through scientific research and education knowledge about human cultures the natural world and the universe 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding 1 2 Construction 1 3 Expansion and later changes 1 3 1 19th century 1 3 2 20th century 1 3 3 21st century 2 New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt 3 Mammal halls 3 1 Old World mammals 3 1 1 Akeley Hall of African Mammals 3 1 2 Hall of Asian Mammals 3 2 New World mammals 3 2 1 Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals 3 2 1 1 Hall of Small Mammals 4 Birds reptiles and amphibian halls 4 1 Sanford Hall of North American Birds 4 2 Hall of Birds of the World 4 3 Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds 4 4 Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians 5 Biodiversity and environmental halls 5 1 Hall of Biodiversity 5 2 Hall of North American Forests 5 3 Warburg Hall of New York State Environments 5 4 Milstein Hall of Ocean Life 6 Human origins and cultural halls 6 1 Cultural halls 6 1 1 Stout Hall of Asian Peoples 6 1 2 Hall of African Peoples 6 1 3 Hall of Mexico and Central America 6 1 4 Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples 6 1 5 Native American halls 6 1 5 1 Hall of Northwest Coast Indians 6 1 5 2 Hall of Plains Indians 6 1 5 3 Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians 6 2 Human origins halls 6 2 1 Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins 7 Earth and planetary science halls 7 1 Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites 7 2 Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals 7 3 David S and Ruth L Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth 8 Fossil halls 8 1 Storage facilities 8 2 Public displays 8 2 1 Halls 8 2 2 Fossils on display 9 Rose Center for Earth and Space 10 Exhibitions Lab 11 Research Library 11 1 History 11 2 Special collections 12 Activities offered 12 1 Research activities 12 2 Educational outreach 12 3 Richard Gilder Graduate School 13 Southwestern Research Station 14 Notable people 14 1 Presidents 14 1 1 Ellen Futter 14 1 2 Sean M Decatur 14 2 Other associated names 15 Surroundings 16 In popular culture 16 1 Literature 16 2 Film 16 3 Television 16 4 Video games 17 Gallery 18 See also 19 References 19 1 Notes 19 2 Citations 19 3 Sources 20 External linksHistory EditSee also List of castles in the United States Founding Edit The naturalist Dr Albert S Bickmore devised the idea for the American Museum of Natural History in 1861 9 At the time he was studying in Cambridge Massachusetts at Louis Agassiz s Museum of Comparative Zoology 9 10 Observing that many European natural history museums were in populous cities Bickmore wrote in a biography Now New York is our city of greatest wealth and therefore probably the best location for the future museum of natural history for our whole land 9 For several years Bickmore lobbied for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York 11 Upon the end of the American Civil War Bickmore asked numerous prominent New Yorkers such as William E Dodge Jr to sponsor his museum 12 13 Although Dodge himself could not fund the museum at the time he introduced the naturalist to Theodore Roosevelt Sr the father of future U S president Theodore Roosevelt 12 14 Calls for a natural history museum increased after Barnum s American Museum burned down in 1868 12 Eighteen prominent New Yorkers wrote a letter to the Central Park Commission that December requesting the creation of a natural history museum in Central Park 10 15 16 Central Park commissioner Andrew Haswell Green indicated his support for the project in January 1869 16 15 A board of trustees was created for the museum The next month Bickmore and Joseph Hodges Choate drafted a charter for the museum which the board of trustees approved without any changes It was in this charter that the American Museum of Natural History name was first used 17 Bickmore said he wanted the museum s name to reflect his expectation that our museum will ultimately become the leading institution of its kind in our country similar to the British Museum 17 Before the museum was established Bickmore needed to secure approval from Boss Tweed leader of the powerful and corrupt Tammany Hall political organization The legislation to establish the American Museum of Natural History had to be signed by John Thompson Hoffman the governor of New York who was associated with Tweed 18 Hoffman signed the legislation creating the museum on April 6 1869 19 20 with John David Wolfe as its first president 21 a Subsequently the chairman of the AMNH s executive committee asked Green if the museum could use the top two stories of Central Park s Arsenal and Green approved the request in January 1870 20 Insect specimens were placed on the lower level of the Arsenal 22 while stones fossils mammals birds fish and reptiles were placed on the upper level 23 The museum opened within the Arsenal on May 22 1871 23 24 The AMNH became popular in the following years The Arsenal location had 856 773 visitors in the first nine months of 1876 alone more than the British Museum had recorded for all of 1874 25 Drawing of the AMNH south facade publication 1916 Construction Edit This building was built in 1874 and opened in 1877 Currently this building houses first floor to fourth floor the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians Hall of African Peoples the Sanford Hall of North American Birds and Hall of Vertebrate Origins Meanwhile the AMNH s directors had identified Manhattan Square bounded by Eighth Avenue Central Park West 81st Street Ninth Avenue Columbus Avenue and 77th Street as a site for a permanent structure 10 26 Several prominent New Yorkers had raised 500 000 to fund the construction of the new building The city s park commissioners then reserved Manhattan Square as the site of the permanent museum and another 200 000 was raised for the building fund 27 Numerous dignitaries and officials including U S president Ulysses S Grant attended the museum s groundbreaking ceremony on June 3 1874 28 29 30 The museum opened on December 22 1877 with a ceremony attended by U S president Rutherford B Hayes 31 25 The original Victorian Gothic building was designed by Calvert Vaux and J Wrey Mould both already closely identified with the architecture of Central Park 32 33 Vaux and Mould s original plan was intended to complement the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the opposite side of Central Park 33 The original building as constructed was at the center of the 77th Street frontage and consisted of a gallery measuring 112 ft 34 m long and 200 ft 61 m tall This gallery contained a raised basement three stories of exhibits Venetian Gothic arches and an attic with dormers and a slate roof 25 The original structure still exists but is hidden from view by the many buildings in the complex that today occupy most of Manhattan Square 32 The museum remains accessible through its 77th Street foyer which has since been renamed the Grand Gallery 34 The full plan called for twelve pavilions similar in design to the original building Eight pavilions would have been arranged as the sides of a square while the remaining four would be perpendicular to each other in the interior of the square There were to be eight towers along the perimeter of the square as well as a 120 ft wide 37 m dome in the center at the intersection of the four interior pavilions 25 35 In each pavilion there was to be a ground floor the second floor was to contain a gallery the third floor was to exhibit specimens and the fourth floor was to be used for research 26 Upon the intended completion of the master plan the museum would measure 850 ft 260 m from north to south and 650 ft 200 m from west to east including projections from the square 25 35 The finished structure with a ground area of over 18 acres 7 3 ha 27 would have been the largest building in North America as well as the largest museum building in the world 33 The master plan was never fully realized 36 by 2015 the museum consisted of 25 separate buildings that were poorly connected 37 Expansion and later changes Edit 19th century Edit 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 original building was soon eclipsed by the south range of the museum designed by J Cleaveland Cady an exercise in rusticated brownstone neo Romanesque influenced by H H Richardson 38 It extends 700 ft 210 m along West 77th Street 39 with corner towers 150 ft 46 m tall Its pink brownstone and granite similar to that found at Grindstone Island in the St Lawrence River came from quarries at Picton Island New York 40 20th century Edit In the early 1920s museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn planned a new entrance for the AMNH which was to contain a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt 41 Also around that time the New York state government formed a commission to study the feasibility of a Roosevelt memorial 41 42 After a dispute over whether to put the memorial in Albany or in New York City 43 the government of New York City offered a site next to the AMNH for consideration 44 The commission rejected a conventional Greek mausoleum design instead opting to design a triumphal arch and hall in a Roman style 41 In 1925 the AMNH s trustees hosted an architectural design competition selecting John Russell Pope to design the memorial hall 45 46 Construction began in 1929 47 and the trustees approved final plans the next year 48 J Harry McNally was the general contractor 49 Roosevelt s cousin U S president Franklin D Roosevelt dedicated the memorial on January 19 1936 50 51 The original building was later known as Wing A During the 1950s the top floor was renovated into a library being redecorated with what Christopher Gray of The New York Times described as dropped ceilings and the other usual insults 52 The ten story Childs Frick Building which contained the AMNH s fossil collection was added to the museum in the 1970s 53 54 The architect Kevin Roche and his firm Roche Dinkeloo have been responsible for the master planning of the museum since the 1990s 55 Various renovations to both the interior and exterior have been carried out Renovations to the Dinosaur Hall were undertaken beginning in 1991 55 and Roche Dinkeloo designed the eight story AMNH Library in 1992 56 The museum s Rose Center for Earth and Space was completed in 2000 57 58 21st century Edit The old Romanesque Revival style 77th Street entrance The museum s lecture hall was renamed the Samuel J and Ethel LeFrak Theater in 2001 after Samuel J LeFrak donated 8 million to the AMNH 59 The museum s south facade spanning 77th Street from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue was cleaned repaired and re emerged in 2009 Steven Reichl a spokesman for the museum said that work would include restoring 650 black cherry window frames and stone repairs The museum s consultant on the latest renovation was Wiss Janney Elstner Associates Inc an architectural and engineering firm with headquarters in Northbrook Illinois 38 The museum also restored the mural in Roosevelt Memorial Hall in 2010 60 In 2014 the museum published plans for a 325 million 195 000 sq ft 18 100 m2 annex the Richard Gilder Center for Science Education and Innovation on the Columbus Avenue side 61 Designed by Studio Gang Higgins Quasebarth amp Partners and landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand the new building s pink Milford granite facade will have a textural curvilinear design inspired by natural topographical elements showcased in the museum including geological strata glacier gouged caves curving canyons and blocks of glacial ice as a striking contrast to the museum s predominance of High Victorian Gothic Richardson Romanesque and Beaux Arts architectural styles The interior itself would contain a new entrance from Columbus Avenue north of 79th Street a multiple story storage structure containing specimens and objects rooms to display these objects an insect hall an interpretive wayfinding wall and a theater 37 62 This expansion was originally supposed to be north of the existing museum occupying parts of Theodore Roosevelt Park The expansion was relocated to the west side of the existing museum and its footprint was reduced in size due to opposition to construction in the park The annex would instead replace three existing buildings along Columbus Avenue s east side with more than 30 connections to the existing museum and it would be six stories high the same height as the existing buildings The plans for the expansion were scrutinized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 37 On October 11 2016 the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved the expansion Construction of the Gilder Center which was expected to break ground the next year following design development and Environmental Impact Statement stages would entail demolition of three museum buildings built between 1874 and 1935 62 The museum formally filed plans to construct the expansion in August 2017 63 but due to community opposition construction did not start until June 2019 The project is expected to be complete by 2022 64 65 New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt EditThe main entrance hall on Central Park West is formally known as the New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt Completed by John Russell Pope in 1936 it is an over scaled Beaux Arts monument to former U S president Theodore Roosevelt 42 The hall was originally supposed to have formed one end of an Intermuseum Promenade through Central Park connecting with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the east 66 but the promenade was never completed 67 The memorial hall has a pink granite facade which is modeled after Roman arches 47 68 In front of the hall on Central Park West is a terrace measuring 350 ft 110 m long as well as a series of steps The main entrance consists of an arch measuring 60 ft 18 m high 47 The underside of the arch is a coffered granite vestibule which leads to a bronze glass and marble screen 47 69 On either side of the arch are niches that contain sculptures of a bison and a bear 69 It is flanked by two pairs of columns which are topped by figures of American explorers John James Audubon Daniel Boone Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 70 47 68 These figures were sculpted by James Earle Fraser 47 and are about 30 ft 9 1 m high 69 In the attic above the main archway there is an inscription describing Roosevelt s accomplishments 70 47 The words Truth Knowledge and Vision are carved into the entablature under this inscription 70 Fraser also designed an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt flanked by a Native American and an African American which originally stood outside the memorial hall In the 21st century the statue generated controversy due to its subordinate depiction of these figures behind Roosevelt 71 72 This prompted AMNH officials to announce in 2020 that they would remove the statue 73 74 The statue was removed in January 2022 and will be on a long term loan to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota 75 76 The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall is the main ticketing lobby The interior of the Memorial Hall measures 67 by 120 ft 20 by 37 m across with a barrel vaulted ceiling measuring 100 ft 30 m tall 77 47 78 79 The ceiling contains octagonal coffers while the floors are made of mosaic marble tiles 78 80 The lowest 9 ft 2 7 m of the walls are wainscoted in marble above which the walls of the memorial hall are made of limestone The top of each wall contains a marble band and a Corinthian entablature 81 Each of the Memorial Hall s four sides contains two red marble columns each measuring 48 ft 15 m tall and rising from a Botticino marble pedestal There are rounded windows at clerestory level on the north and south walls 81 80 William Andrew MacKay designed three 62 ft wide 19 m murals depicting important events in Roosevelt s life the construction of the Panama Canal on the north wall African exploration on the west wall and the Treaty of Portsmouth on the south wall 82 83 The east and west walls contain four quotes from Roosevelt under the headings Nature Manhood Youth and The State 77 81 84 The Memorial Hall originally connected to various classrooms exhibition rooms and a 600 person auditorium 47 85 Directly underneath the Memorial Hall is an entrance to the 81st Street Museum of Natural History station 47 Today the hall connects to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals and the Hall of Asian Mammals The Memorial Hall contains four exhibits that describe Theodore Roosevelt s conservation activities in his youth early adulthood U S presidency and post presidency 86 Mammal halls EditOld World mammals Edit Akeley Hall of African Mammals Edit Akeley Hall of African Mammals James L Clark right and assistants mount specimens for the Lions dioramaNamed after taxidermist Carl Akeley the Akeley Hall of African Mammals is a two story hall on the second floor directly west of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall It connects to the Hall of African Peoples to the west 87 The Hall of African Mammals 28 dioramas depict in meticulous detail the great range of ecosystems found in Africa and the mammals endemic to them The centerpiece of the hall is a pack of eight African elephants in a characteristic alarmed formation 88 Though the mammals are typically the main feature in the dioramas birds and flora of the regions are occasionally featured as well 89 The hall in its current form was completed in 1936 90 91 The Hall of African Mammals was first proposed to the museum by Carl Akeley around 1909 he proposed 40 dioramas featuring the rapidly vanishing landscapes and animals of Africa Daniel Pomeroy a trustee of the museum and partner at J P Morgan amp Co offered investors the opportunity to accompany the museum s expeditions in Africa in exchange for funding 92 Akeley began collecting specimens for the hall as early as 1909 famously encountering Theodore Roosevelt in the midst of the Smithsonian Roosevelt African expedition 93 On these early expeditions Akeley was accompanied by his former apprentice in taxidermy James L Clark and artist William R Leigh 92 When Akeley returned to Africa to collect gorillas for the hall s first diorama Clark remained behind and began scouring the country for artists to create the backgrounds The eventual appearance of the first habitat groups impacted the design of other diorama halls including Birds of the World the Hall of North American Mammals the Vernay Hall of Southeast Asian Mammals and the Hall of Oceanic Life 92 After Akeley s unexpected death during the Eastman Pommeroy expedition in 1926 responsibility of the hall s completion fell to James L Clark who hired architectural artist James Perry Wilson in 1933 to assist Leigh in the painting of backgrounds Wilson made many improvements on Leigh s techniques including a range of methods to minimize the distortion caused by the dioramas curved walls 92 In 1936 William Durant Campbell a wealthy board member with a desire to see Africa offered to fund several dioramas if allowed to obtain the specimens himself Clark agreed to this arrangement resulting in the acquisition of numerous large specimens 92 94 Kane joined Leigh Wilson and several other artists in completing the hall s remaining dioramas 95 Though construction of the hall was completed in 1936 90 91 the dioramas gradually opened between the mid 1920s and early 1940s 95 Species and locations represented in Akeley Hall 95 96 Angola Upper Cuango and Luando Rivers Giant sable antelopeBotswana Kalahari Desert Gemsbok Black wildebeest Blesbok SpringbokCameroon Bipindi Mandrill Gaboon viperEthiopia Addis Ababa Mountain nyalaIvory Coast Cavalla River ChimpanzeeKenya Aberdare Mountains Bongo Giant forest hog Leopard Bushpig Mantled guereza listed as white mantled colobus Mount Kenya African buffalo Cattle egret Black rhinoceros Ewaso Ng iro Giraffe Grevy s zebra Northern Grant s gazelle listed as Rainey s gazelle Beisa oryx Nairobi Ostrich Common warthog Elephant shrew Lukenya Hills Klipspringer Olive baboon Mountain reedbuck Yellow spotted rock hyraxLibya Libyan Desert Scimitar oryx Addra gazelle AddaxMozambique Zambezi River CheetahDR Congo Ituri Rainforest Okapi Kivu Mountain Mountain gorilla Uele River White rhinoceros Crested porcupineSudan Lake No Hippopotamus Sitatunga White eared kob Waterbuck Roan antelope Nile lechwe Shoebill Bahr el Ghazal Giant eland Standard winged nightjarTanzania Mount Kilimanjaro Greater kudu Serengeti Plains Blue Wildebeest Plains zebra Lichtenstein s hartebeest listed as bubal hartebeest Topi Eland Thomson s gazelle Grant s gazelle Hunting dog Spotted Hyena Black backed Jackal Lappet faced vulture Ruppell s vulture White backed vulture Hooded vulture Marabou stork White necked raven Lake Victoria Lion Impala Hedgehog Gulave Lesser kudu Gerenuk Dik dik Vulturine guineafowlHall of Asian Mammals Edit Vernay Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals The Indian rhinoceros diorama at Vernay Faunthorpe Hall The Hall of Asian Mammals sometimes referred to as the Vernay Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals is directly south of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall 87 It contains 8 complete dioramas 4 partial dioramas and 6 habitat groups of mammals and locations from India Nepal Burma and Malaysia The hall opened in 1930 and similar to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals is centered around 2 Asian elephants At one point a giant panda and Siberian tiger were also part of the Hall s collection originally intended to be part of an adjoining Hall of North Asian Mammals planned in the current location of Stout Hall of Asian Peoples These specimens can currently be seen in the Hall of Biodiversity 88 97 Specimens for the Hall of Asian Mammals were collected over six expeditions led by British born antiques dealer Arthur S Vernay and Col John Faunthorpe as noted by stylized plaques at both entrances The expeditions were funded entirely by Vernay who characterized the expense as a British tribute to American involvement in World War I 98 The first Vernay Faunthorpe expedition took place in 1922 when many of the animals Vernay was seeking such as the Sumatran rhinoceros and Asiatic lion were facing the possibility of extinction Vernay made many appeals to regional authorities to obtain hunting permits 99 in later museum related expeditions headed by Vernay these appeals helped the museum gain access to areas previously restricted to foreign visitors 100 Artist Clarence C Rosenkranz accompanied the Vernay Faunthorpe expeditions as field artist and painted the majority of the diorama backgrounds in the hall 101 These expeditions were also well documented in both photo and video with enough footage of the first expedition to create a feature length film Hunting Tigers in India 1929 102 Species and Locations Represented in the Hall of Asian MammalsIndia Assam Hoolock gibbon Thamin Awadh Sambar Barasingha Chital Bhopal Sambar Dhole listed as wild dog Bikanir Blackbuck Chinkara Biligiriranga Hills listed as Kallegal Range Leopard Mysore Gaur Indian roller Manas River Wild water buffaloNepal Base of the Himalayas Tiger Morang Indian rhinocerosBurma Rangoon BantengHabitat groupsSloth bearFour horned antelope Smooth coated otterMuntjac Spotted chevrotainSumatran rhinocerosHog deer Indian wild boarAsiatic lionNew World mammals Edit The two Alaska Peninsula brown bears at the AMNH Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals Edit Alaska moose diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals The Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals is on the first floor directly west of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall 87 features 43 dioramas of various mammals of the American continent north of tropical Mexico Each diorama places focus on a particular species ranging from the largest megafauna to the smaller rodents and carnivorans Notable dioramas include the Alaskan brown bears looking at a salmon after they scared off an otter a pair of wolves a pair of Sonoran jaguars and dueling bull Alaska moose The Hall of North American Mammals opened in 1942 with only ten dioramas 103 Another 16 dioramas were added in 1963 104 A massive restoration project began in late 2011 following a large donation from Jill and Lewis Bernard 105 106 In October 2012 the hall was reopened as the Bernard Hall of North American Mammals 107 Species and Locations Represented in the Hall of North American MammalsAlaska Ice age mammals of AlaskaCalifornia Ice age mammals of CaliforniaCanoe Bay Alaska Peninsula Alaska Peninsula brown bearKenai Peninsula Alaska MooseNorth Platte River Wyoming American bison PronghornYellowstone National Park Wyoming Grizzly bearMount Wilcox Alberta Jasper National Park Alberta Canada Bighorn sheepDevils Tower Wyoming Mule deerEllesmere Island Nunavut Canada MuskoxTongass National Forest Alaska Mountain goatNear Tucson Arizona Antelope jackrabbit Black tailed jackrabbitNear Lake Placid Florida American black bear CottonmouthIthaca New York Eastern cottontailLake Gunflint Superior National Forest Northern Minnesota WolfShiprock New Mexico Western spotted skunk RingtailYosemite National Park California CoyoteBear Mountain State Park New York White tailed deerMinnies Lake Georgia RaccoonHoister Creek Michigan North American beaverMount Rainier National Park Washington Mountain beaverGaspesie National Park Quebec Canada Canada lynx Snowshoe hareRogue River Oregon Western gray squirrelGrand Canyon Arizona CougarWhite River National Forest Colorado WapitiGuaymas Sonora Mexico JaguarDenali National Park Alaska Dall sheepLevel Mountain British Columbia Canada Osborn caribouAlaska Grant caribouHall of Small Mammals Edit The Hall of Small Mammals is an offshoot of the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals directly to the west of the latter 87 There are several small dioramas featuring small mammals found throughout North America including collared peccaries Abert s squirrel and a wolverine Species and Locations Represented in the Hall of Small MammalsKaibab National Forest Arizona Abert s squirrelJackson Hole Wyoming American badgerCrater Lake National Park Oregon American martenPine Barrens New Jersey American minkWind Cave National Park South Dakota Black footed ferretBig Bend National Park Texas Collared peccaryBaxter State Park Maine Stoat Red backed voleGreat Smoky Mountains National Park Tennessee Gray fox Virginia opossumCohocton New York GroundhogSanta Ana National Wildlife Refuge Texas Nine banded armadilloTrapper Peak Montana Northern flying squirrelAlgonquin Provincial Park North American river otterDelaware Water Gap New Jersey Striped skunkEnnadai Lake Nunavut Canada WolverineBirds reptiles and amphibian halls EditSanford Hall of North American Birds Edit The Cuthbert Rookery Diorama contains many of the birds once endangered by plume hunting The Sanford Hall of North American birds is a one story hall on the third floor between the Hall of Primates and Akeley Hall s second level 87 There are over 20 dioramas depicting birds from across North America in their native habitats 108 At the far end of the hall are two large murals by ornithologist and artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes 109 The hall also has display cases devoted to large collections of warblers owls and raptors Conceived by museum ornithologist Frank Chapman the Hall is named for Chapman s friend and amateur ornithologist Leonard C Sanford who partially funded the hall and also donated the entirety of his own bird specimen collection to the museum Construction began on the hall s dioramas as early as 1902 and the dioramas opened in 1909 They were the first to be exhibited in the museum and are the oldest still on display 110 The hall was refurbished in 1962 111 Although Chapman was not the first to create museum dioramas he was the first to bring artists into the field with him in the hopes of capturing a specific location at a specific time In contrast to the dramatic scenes that Akeley created for the African Hall Chapman wanted his dioramas to evoke a scientific realism ultimately serving as a historical record of habitats and species facing a high probability of extinction 110 Each of Chapman s dioramas depicted a species their nests and 4 ft 1 2 m of the surrounding habitat in each direction 112 Species and locations represented in Sanford Hall Eastern Upland Gamebirds Ruffed grouse Northern bobwhite American woodcock Ring necked pheasant Booming grounds Central Wisconsin Greater prairie chicken Western Gamebirds Sierra Foothills Mountain quail California quail Band tailed pigeon Sage grouse Blue grouse Chukar partridge Mountain bluebird Marsh Ducks in Spring Green winged teal Gadwall Fulvous whistling duck Hooded merganser Baldpate Mallard Northern shoveler American black duck Cinnamon teal Yellowthroat Sea Ducks in Winter Ring necked duck Steller s eider Bufflehead Long tailed duck oldsquaw Canvasback Harlequin duck Redhead Common goldeneye Red breasted merganser Common merganser King eiderCap Tourmente Quebec Snow gooseUmbagog Lake New Hampshire Common loon Desert Birds Gambel s quail Lesser nighthawk Verdin Curve billed thrasher Gnatcatcher Pyrrhuloxia Cactus wren Greater Roadrunner Northern Cardinal Black throated sparrow Scaled quail Mourning doveCrane Lake Saskatchewan Canada gooseEverglades Florida Wood stork LimpkinLake Louise Canadian Rockies Gray crowned rosy finch White tailed ptarmigan American pipit Horned larkUpper Klamath Lake California California gull American white pelican Caspian tern Ring billed gull Double crested cormorantHeron Lake Minnesota Whooping craneMedicine Bow Mountains Wyoming Golden eagleCay Verde The Bahamas Brown booby Magnificent frigatebirdMonterey California Brandt s cormorantBrigantine New Jersey American yellow warbler Whimbrel Great blue heron Clapper rail Black skimmer Common tern Red winged blackbird Laughing gull Willet Ruddy turnstoneSouth Carolina Great egretPotomac river Great horned owlUnidentified marsh Florida Sandhill cranePort St Lucie Florida SnakebirdMontauk New York Labrador duckWest Virginia Wild turkeyChilkat River Alaska Bald eagleUndisclosed LocationPeregrine falcon Feral pigeonBarn swallow Tree swallow Bobolink Red winged blackbird Wood duck Bank swallow Swamp sparrow Marsh wren SoraCalifornia condorHall of Birds of the World Edit The Hall of Birds of the World is on the south side of the second floor 87 The global diversity of bird species is exhibited in this hall 12 dioramas showcase various ecosystems around the world and provide a sample of the varieties of birds that live there Example dioramas include South Georgia featuring king penguins and skuas the East African plains featuring secretarybirds and bustards and the Australian outback featuring honeyeaters cockatoos and kookaburras 113 Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds Edit This particular hall has undergone a complicated history over the years since its founding in 1953 Frank Chapman and Leonard C Sanford originally museum volunteers had gone forward with creation of a hall to feature birds of the Pacific islands In the years up to its founding the museum had engaged in various expeditions to Fiji New Zealand and the Marianas among other locations to collect birds for the exhibit The hall was designed as a completely immersive collection of dioramas including a circular display featuring birds of paradise In 1998 The Butterfly Conservatory was installed inside the hall originally as a temporary exhibit but as the popular demand of the exhibit increased the Hall of Oceanic Birds has more or less remained closed by the museum Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians Edit The Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians is near the southeast corner of the third floor 87 It serves as an introduction to herpetology with many exhibits detailing reptile evolution anatomy diversity reproduction and behavior Notable exhibits include a Komodo dragon group an American alligator Lonesome George the last Pinta Island tortoise and poison dart frogs 114 The Komodo dragon diorama featuring a group feeding on a wild boar carcass in the Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians In 1926 W Douglas Burden F J Defosse and Emmett Reid Dunn collected specimens of the Komodo Dragon for the museum Burden s chapter The Komodo Dragon in Look to the Wilderness describes the expedition the habitat and the behavior of the dragon 115 The hall opened in 1927 116 and was rebuilt from 1969 to 1977 at a cost of 1 3 million 117 Biodiversity and environmental halls EditHall of Biodiversity Edit The Hall of Biodiversity is underneath the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall 87 It opened in May 1998 The hall primarily contains exhibits and objects highlighting the concept of biodiversity the interactions between living organisms and the negative impacts of extinction on biodiversity 118 119 The hall includes a 2 500 sq ft 230 m2 diorama depicting the Dzanga Sangha Special Reserve rainforest with over 160 animal and plant species 119 120 The diorama shows the rainforest in three states pristine altered by human activity and destroyed by human activity 118 119 Another attraction in the hall is The Spectrum of Habitats a video wall displaying footage of nine ecosystems There is a Transformation Wall containing information and stories detailing changes to biodiversity and a Solutions Wall containing suggestions on how to increase biodiversity 119 Hall of North American Forests Edit The Mixed Deciduous Forest diorama The Hall of North American Forests is a one story hall on the museum s first floor in between the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall and the Warburg Hall of New York State Environments 87 It contains ten dioramas depicting a range of forest types from across North America as well as several displays on forest conservation and tree health The hall was constructed under the guidance of botanist Henry K Svenson 121 and opened in 1958 122 Each diorama specifically lists both the location and exact time of year depicted 121 Trees and plants featured in the dioramas are constructed of a combination of art supplies and actual bark and other specimens collected in the field The entrance to the hall features a cross section from the Mark Twain Tree 1 400 year old sequoia taken from the King s River grove on the west flank of the Sierra Mountains in 1891 123 The Juniper Forest diorama Locations Represented in the Hall of North American ForestsOak Hickory Forest in late August Ozark PlateauNorthern Spruce Fir in mid August Lake NipigonJeffrey Pine Forest in early June Inyo National ForestOlympic Rain Forest in mid June Quinault RainforestTimberline of the Northern Rocky Mountains in mid July Logan PassPinyon Juniper Woodland in early October Colorado National MonumentGiant Cactus Forest in mid April Saguaro National ParkSoutheastern Coastal Plain Forest in mid March Coosawhatchie River South CarolinaMixed Deciduous Forest in late April Great Smoky Mountains National ParkEarly October in Southern New Hampshire Lake SunapeeWarburg Hall of New York State Environments Edit Spring display in Warburg Hall Warburg Hall of New York State Environments is a one story hall on the museum s ground floor in between the Hall of North American Forests and the Grand Hall 87 Based on the town of Pine Plains and near by Stissing Mountain in Dutchess County 124 the hall gives a multi faceted presentation of the eco systems typical of New York Aspects covered include soil types seasonal changes and the impact of both humans and nonhuman animals on the environment It is named for the German American philanthropist Felix M Warburg Originally known as the Hall of Man and Nature Warburg Hall opened in 1951 124 It has changed little since and is now frequently regarded for its retro modern styling 125 The hall shares many of the exhibit types featured throughout the museum as well as one display type unique to Warburg which features a recessed miniature diorama behind a foreground of species and specimens from the environment depicted Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Edit Model of a blue whale in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life is in the southeastern quadrant of the first floor west of the Hall of Biodiversity 87 It focuses on marine biology botany and marine conservation The center of the hall contains a 94 ft 29 m long blue whale model 126 The upper level of the hall exhibits the vast array of ecosystems present in the ocean Dioramas compare and contrast the life in these different settings including polar seas kelp forests mangroves coral reefs and the bathypelagic It attempts to show how vast and varied the oceans are while encouraging common themes throughout 127 The lower half of the hall consists of 15 large dioramas of larger marine organisms 128 It is on this level that the famous Squid and the Whale diorama sits depicting a hypothetical fight between the two creatures 127 Other notable exhibits in this hall include the two level Andros Coral Reef Diorama 128 129 Upper dioramas are smaller versions of the ecosystems when the bottom versions are much bigger and more life like In 1910 museum president Henry F Osborn proposed the construction of a large building in the museum s southeast courtyard to house a new Hall of Ocean Life in which models and skeletons of whales would be exhibited 130 The hall opened in 1924 128 and was renovated in 1962 111 In 1969 a renovation gave the hall a more explicit focus on oceanic megafauna including the addition of a lifelike blue whale model to replace a popular steel and papier mache whale model that had hung in the Biology of Mammals hall Richard Van Gelder oversaw the creation of the hall in its current incarnation 130 The hall was renovated once again in 2003 this time with environmentalism and conservation being the main focal points and was renamed after developer Paul Milstein and AMNH board member Irma Milstein The 2003 renovation included refurbishment of the famous blue whale suspended high above the 19 000 sq ft 1 800 m2 exhibit floor updates to the 1930s and 1960s dioramas and electronic displays 112 The whale s flukes and fins were readjusted a navel was added and it was repainted from a dull gray to various rich shades of blue Human origins and cultural halls EditCultural halls Edit Stout Hall of Asian Peoples Edit The Stout Hall of Asian Peoples is a one story hall on the museum s second floor in between the Hall of Asian Mammals and Birds of the World 87 It is named for Gardner D Stout a former president of the museum and was primarily organized by Dr Walter A Fairservis a longtime museum archaeologist Opened in 1980 Stout Hall is the museum s largest anthropological hall and contains artifacts acquired by the museum between 1869 and the mid 1970s 131 Many famous expeditions sponsored by the museum are associated with the artifacts in the hall including the Roy Chapman Andrews expeditions in Central Asia and the Vernay Hopwood Chindwin expedition 132 Stout Hall has two sections Ancient Eurasia a small section devoted to the evolution of human civilization in Eurasia and Traditional Asia a much larger section containing cultural artifacts from across the Asian continent The latter section is organized to geographically correspond with two major trade routes of the Silk Road Like many of the museum s exhibition halls the artifacts in Stout Hall are presented in a variety of ways including exhibits miniature dioramas and five full scale dioramas Notable exhibits in the Ancient Eurasian section include reproductions from the archaeological sites of Teshik Tash and Catalhoyuk as well as a full size replica of a Hammurabi Stele The Traditional Asia section contains areas devoted to major Asian countries such as Japan China Tibet and India while also including a vast array of smaller Asian tribes including the Ainu Semai and Yakut 133 A forced perspective miniature diorama of Isfahan A Yakut shaman performs a healing rite in this diorama A range of costumes worn by women in Islamic AsiaHall of African Peoples Edit Diorama depicting Pokot methods of animal husbandry Spiritual costumes from a variety of African tribes The Hall of African Peoples is behind Akeley Hall of African Mammals and underneath Sanford Hall of North American Birds 87 It is organized by the four major ecosystems found in Africa River Valley Grasslands Forest Woodland and Desert Each section presents artifacts and exhibits of the peoples native to the ecosystems throughout Africa The hall contains three dioramas and notable exhibits include a large collection of spiritual costumes on display in the Forest Woodland section Uniting the sections of the hall is a multi faceted comparison of African societies based on hunting and gathering cultivation and animal domestication Each type of society is presented in a historical political spiritual and ecological context A small section of African diaspora spread by the slave trade is also included 134 Tribes and civilizations featured include River Valley Ancient Egyptians Nubians Kuba Lozi Grasslands Pokot Shilluk Barawa Forest Woodland Yoruba Kofyar Mbuti Desert Ait Atta TuaregHall of Mexico and Central America Edit Zapotec burial urns from Monte Alban The Hall of Mexico and Central America is a one story hall on the museum s second floor behind Birds of the World and before the Hall of South American Peoples 87 It presents archaeological artifacts from a broad range of pre Columbian civilizations that once existed across Middle America including the Maya Olmec Zapotec and Aztec Because most of these civilizations did not leave behind recorded writing or have any contact with Western civilization the overarching aim of the hall is to piece together what it is possible to know about them from the artifacts alone The museum has displayed pre Columbian artifacts since its opening only a short time after the discovery of the civilizations by archaeologists with its first hall dedicated to the subject opening in 1899 135 As the museum s collection grew the hall underwent major renovations in 1944 and again in 1970 when it re opened in its current form 136 137 Notable artifacts on display include the Kunz Axe and a full scale replica of Tomb 104 from the Monte Alban archaeological site originally displayed at the 1939 World s Fair Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples Edit A fiberglass cast of a moai in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples The Hall of Pacific Peoples is on the southwestern corner of the third floor accessed through the Hall of Plains Indians 138 The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead had founded the Hall of Pacific Peoples in 1971 139 From the time Mead began curatorial work on the hall in 1945 she conceived an exhibit environment that would emulate sights and sounds from the Pacific regions on display 140 After Mead s death in 1978 the hall reopened in December 1984 as the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples 141 142 The new hall designed by Eugene Burgmann maintained the blue themed ocean and sky ambiance of the original hall 140 The hall was once again closed in 1997 and reopened in 2001 with an updated design that retained the geocultural alcoves first installed with the 1984 remodel 143 Balinese wayang puppets collected by Mead and Bateson on display with photograph of puppet maker by Bateson The Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples contains artifacts from New Zealand Australia Indonesia the Philippines Micronesia Melanesia and other Pacific islands 144 145 146 Mead had collected 250 of the 1 500 items in the hall Some of these were probably selected from the 3 284 items she collected for the American Museum of Natural History during fieldwork in New Guinea and other Pacific island locations 1928 1939 147 Others such as the theatrical set from a puppet play in Bali were chosen from among the approximately 600 items that Mead and her anthropologist husband Gregory Bateson had sent to the American Museum of Natural History while they were conducting fieldwork in Bali 1936 1938 146 The exhibits in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples also include a fiberglass cast of an Easter Island moai statue and capes made of honeycreeper feathers 145 Native American halls Edit Hall of Northwest Coast Indians Edit Kwakwaka wakw House Posts The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians is a one story hall on the museum s ground floor behind the Grand Gallery and in between Warburg and Spitzer Halls 87 it is the museum s oldest hall having been established in 1899 by anthropologist Franz Boas as the Jesup North Pacific Hall 148 149 The hall now contains artifacts and exhibits of the tribes of the North Pacific Coast cultural region Southern Alaska Northern Washington and a portion of British Columbia Featured prominently in the hall are four House Posts from the Kwakwaka wakw nation and murals by William S Taylor depicting native life 150 As of 2022 update there are 9 000 items in total including 78 totem poles 148 as well as a Haida canoe suspended from the ceiling relocated from the Grand Gallery in 2020 151 152 The artifacts are accompanied by text in numerous Native American languages 149 Nuxalk Masks Artifacts in the hall originated from three main sources The earliest of these was a gift of Haida artifacts collected by John Wesley Powell and donated by Herbert Bishop in 1882 This was followed by the museum s purchase of two collections of Tlingit artifacts collected by Lt George T Emmons in 1888 and 1894 153 The remainder of the hall s artifacts were collected during the famed Jesup North Pacific Expedition between 1897 and 1902 154 155 Led by Boas and financed by museum president Morris Ketchum Jesup the expedition was the first for the museum s Division of Anthropology and is now considered the foremost expedition in American anthropology 155 Many famous ethnologists took part including George Hunt who secured the Kwakwaka wakw House Posts that currently stand in the hall 156 Other tribes featured in the hall include Coastal Salish Nuu chah nulth Tsimshian and Nuxalk 157 At the time of its opening the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians was one of four halls dedicated to the native peoples of United States and Canada It was originally organized in two sections the first being a general area pertaining to all peoples of the region and the second a specialized area divided by tribe This was a point of contention for Boas who wanted all artifacts in the hall to be associated with the proper tribe much like it is currently organized eventually leading to the dissolution of Boas s relationship with the museum 153 158 In May 2022 the hall reopened after a five year 19 million renovation with more than 1 000 artifacts on view The new display includes work from contemporary artists such as Greg Colfax KlaWayHee and Robert Davidson 159 160 Hall of Plains Indians Edit The Hall of Plains Indians is on the south side of the third floor near the western end of the museum 87 This hall opened in February 1967 161 162 The primary focus of this hall is the North American Great Plains peoples as they were at the middle of the 19th century including depictions of Blackfeet see also Blackfoot Confederacy Hidatsa and Dakota cultures Of particular interest is a Folsom point discovered in 1926 New Mexico providing evidence of early American colonization of the Americas 163 Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians Edit The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians is next to the Hall of Plains Indians on the south side of the third floor 87 This hall opened in May 1966 164 It details the lives and technology of traditional Native American peoples in the woodland environments of eastern North America These include Cree Mohegan Ojibwe and Iroquois cultures The exhibit features examples of indigenous basketry pottery farming techniques food preparation metal jewelry musical instruments and textiles Other highlights include a model of a Menominee birchbark canoe and various traditional lodgings such as an Ojibwa domed wigwam an Iroquois longhouse a Creek council house and other eastern woodland dwelling styles 165 Human origins halls Edit Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins Edit Main article Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins formerly The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution is on the south side of the first floor near the western end of the museum 87 It opened under its current name on February 10 2007 166 167 When it first opened in 1921 the hall was known as the Hall of the Age of Man the only major exhibition in the United States to present an in depth investigation of human evolution 168 The displays traced the story of Homo sapiens illuminated the path of human evolution and examined the origins of human creativity 169 Many of the displays from the original hall can still be viewed in the present expanded format These include life size dioramas of our human predecessors Australopithecus afarensis Homo ergaster Neanderthal and Cro Magnon showing each species demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe they were capable of Also displayed are full sized casts of important fossils including the 3 2 million year old Lucy skeleton and the 1 7 million year old Turkana Boy and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man 169 The hall also features replicas of ice age art found in the Dordogne region of southwestern France The limestone carvings of horses were made nearly 26 000 years ago and are considered to represent some of the earliest artistic expression of humans 167 Earth and planetary science halls EditArthur Ross Hall of Meteorites Edit Cape York Meteorite Willamette Meteorite The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites is on the southwest corner of the first floor 87 It contains some of the finest specimens in the world including Ahnighito a section of the 200 ton Cape York meteorite which was first made known to non Inuit cultures on their investigation of Meteorite Island Greenland Its great weight 34 tons makes it the largest displayed in the Northern Hemisphere 170 It has support by columns that extend through the floor and into the bedrock below the museum 171 The hall also contains extra solar nanodiamonds diamonds with dimensions on the nanometer level more than 5 billion years old These were extracted from a meteorite sample through chemical means and they are so small that a quadrillion of these fit into a volume smaller than a cubic centimeter 172 Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals Edit Main article Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals is on the first floor north of the Ross Hall of Meteorites 87 It houses thousands of rare gems minerals specimens and pieces of jewelry The halls closed in 2017 to undergo a 32 million redesign by Ralph Appelbaum Associates and reopened to the general public in June 2021 173 174 The redesigned exhibits adopt newer philosophies in exhibit design including a focus on storytelling interactivity and connecting ideas across disciplines The halls explore a range of topics including the diversification of mineral species over the course of Earth s history plate tectonics and the stories of specific gems 175 The halls display rare samples chosen from among the more than 100 000 pieces in the museum s collection including the Star of India the Patricia Emerald and the DeLong Star Ruby 176 Assorted faceted and polished minerals Labradorite specimen Quartz var agate geode Microcline specimen Quartz var amethyst geodeDavid S and Ruth L Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth Edit The David S and Ruth L Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth is on the first floor at the northeast corner of the museum 87 Opened in 1999 it is a permanent hall devoted to the history of Earth from accretion to the origin of life and contemporary human impacts on the planet The hall was designed to answer five key questions How has earth evolved Why are there ocean basins continents and mountains How do scientists read rocks What causes climate and climate change Why is earth habitable 177 178 The hall features rocks and other objects collected over 28 expeditions the oldest rock is 4 3 billion years old while the youngest was collected from a volcano on the day that it solidified There is also a 30 seat granite amphitheater with a globe at the center of the hall 178 Several sections also discuss the studies of Earth systems including geology glaciology atmospheric sciences and volcanology The exhibit has several large touchable rock specimens The hall features striking samples of banded iron and deformed conglomerate rocks as well as granites sandstones lavas and three black smokers The north section of the hall which deals primarily with plate tectonics is arranged to mimic the Earth s structure with the core and mantle at the center and crustal features on the perimeter 179 Fossil halls Edit Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs Skeleton of Styracosaurus Storage facilities Edit Most of the museum s collections of mammalian and dinosaur fossils remain hidden from public view and are kept in many repositories deep within the museum complex 53 The most significant storage facility among these is the ten story Childs Frick Building which started construction in 1969 180 and was completed in 1973 53 54 When the Frick Building was completed the museum s collection of fossilized mammals and dinosaurs was the world s largest such collection weighing 600 short tons 540 long tons 540 t The Frick Building s top three floors contain laboratories and offices 181 Other areas of the museum contain repositories of life from the past The Whale Bone Storage Room is a cavernous space in which powerful winches come down from the ceiling to move the giant fossil bones about The museum attic upstairs includes even more storage facilities such as the Elephant Room while the tusk vault and boar vault are downstairs from the attic 182 Public displays Edit The great fossil collections that are open to public view occupy the entire fourth floor of the museum 87 The fourth floor exhibits are accessed by the Miriam and Ira D Wallach Orientation Center which opened in 1996 183 On the 77th Street side of the museum the visitor begins in the Orientation Center and follows a carefully marked path which takes the visitor along an evolutionary tree of life As the tree branches the visitor is presented with the familial relationships among vertebrates called cladograms A video projection on the museum s fourth floor introduces visitors to the concept of the cladogram 184 183 Many of the fossils on display represent unique and historic pieces that were collected during the museum s golden era of worldwide expeditions 1880s 1930s 19 On a smaller scale expeditions continue into the present and have resulted in additions to the collections from Vietnam Madagascar South America and central and eastern Africa Halls Edit The 4th floor includes the following halls 185 Hall of Vertebrate Origins Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs recognized by their grasping hand long mobile neck and the downward forward position of the pubis bone they are forerunners of the modern bird 186 Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs defined for a pubic bone that points toward the back Hall of Primitive Mammals Hall of Advanced MammalsThe dinosaur halls were temporarily closed for renovation starting in 1990 187 The first halls to reopen were the primitive mammal and advanced mammal halls part of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives which opened in 1994 188 189 The Halls of Saurischian Dinosaurs and Ornithischian Dinosaurs reopened in 1995 as part of a 12 million expansion 190 191 The Hall of Vertebrate Origins opened in 1996 183 Fossils on display Edit Edmontosaurus annectens fossil skeletons The many outstanding fossils on display include among others Tyrannosaurus rex Composed almost entirely of real fossil bones it is mounted in a horizontal stalking pose balanced on powerful legs The specimen is actually composed of fossil bones from two T rex skeletons discovered in Montana in 1902 and 1908 by famous dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown 192 Mammuthus Larger than its relative the woolly mammoth these fossils are from an animal that lived 11 000 years ago in Indiana 193 Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus This giant specimen was discovered at the end of the 19th century Although most of its fossil bones are original the skull is not since none was found on site The skeleton is composed primarily of the specimen AMNH 460 as well as specimens AMNH 222 AMNH 339 AMNH 592 and casts of the Brontosaurus excelsus holotype YPM 1980 194 195 It was only many years later that the first Apatosaurus skull was discovered and so a plaster cast of that skull was made and placed on the museum s mount A Camarasaurus skull had been used mistakenly until a correct skull was found 196 It is not entirely certain whether this specimen is a Brontosaurus or an Apatosaurus and therefore it is considered an unidentified apatosaurine as it could also potentially be its own genus and species 195 Brontops Extinct mammal distantly related to the horse and rhinoceros It lived 35 million years ago in what is now South Dakota It is noted for its magnificent and unusual pair of horns 197 A skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens a large herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur The specimen is an example of a mummified dinosaur fossil in which the soft tissue and skin impressions were imbedded in the surrounding rock The specimen is mounted as it was found lying on its side with its legs drawn up and head drawn backwards 198 On September 26 2007 an 80 million year old 2 ft 61 cm diameter fossil of an ammonite which is composed entirely of the gemstone ammolite made its debut at the museum Neil Landman curator of fossil invertebrates explained that ammonites shelled cephalopod mollusks in the subclass Ammonoidea became extinct 66 million years ago in the same extinction event that killed the dinosaurs Korite International donated the fossil after its discovery in Alberta Canada 199 One skeleton of an Allosaurus scavenging from a Brontosaurus corpse based on fossils found at Bone Cabin Quarry preserving large bite marks on Apatosaurine vertebrae 200 201 202 The only known skull of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis 203 A display of various species of ground sloths including Megalocnus rodens Scelidotherium cuvieri Megalonyx wheatleyi and Glossotherium robustus A display of various species of ground sloths from left Megalocnus rodens Scelidotherium cuvieri Megalonyx wheatleyi Glossotherium robustus A Triceratops and a Stegosaurus are also both on display among many other specimens Besides the fossils in museum display many specimens are stored in the collections available for scientists Those include important specimens such as complete diplodocid skull 204 tyrannosaurid teeth sauropod vertebrae and many holotypes Rose Center for Earth and Space Edit Rose Center for Earth and Space Main article Rose Center for Earth and Space The Hayden Planetarium connected to the museum is now part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space on the north side of the museum 87 The original Hayden Planetarium was founded in 1933 with a donation by philanthropist Charles Hayden and it opened in 1935 205 The AMNH announced the modern Rose Center for Earth and Space in early 1995 36 and demolition began the same year 206 The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space was completed in 2000 at a cost of 210 million 57 58 Designed by James Stewart Polshek the new building consists of a six story high glass cube enclosing an 87 ft 27 m illuminated sphere that appears to float although it is actually supported by truss work Polshek has referred to his work as a cosmic cathedral 57 The sphere is known as the Space Theater 207 The facility encloses 333 500 sq ft 30 980 m2 of research education and exhibition space as well as the Hayden planetarium Also in the facility is the Department of Astrophysics the newest academic research department in the museum Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium In addition Polshek designed the 1 800 sq ft 170 m2 Weston Pavilion a 43 ft 13 m high transparent structure of water white glass along the museum s west facade This structure a small companion piece to the Rose Center offers a new entry way to the museum as well as opening further exhibition space for astronomically related objects 208 The Heilbrun Cosmic Pathway is one of the most popular exhibits in the Rose Center 166 Exhibitions Lab EditMain article AMNH Exhibitions Lab Founded in 1869 the AMNH Exhibitions Lab has since produced thousands of installations The department is notable for its integration of new scientific research into immersive art and multimedia presentations In addition to the famous dioramas at its home museum and the Rose Center for Earth and Space the lab has also produced international exhibitions and software such as the Digital Universe Atlas 209 The exhibitions team currently consists of over sixty artists writers preparators designers and programmers The department is responsible for the creation of two to three exhibits per year These extensive shows typically travel nationally to sister natural history museums They have produced among others the first exhibits to discuss Darwinian evolution 168 human induced climate change 210 and the mesozoic mass extinction via asteroid Research Library EditThe Research Library is open to staff and public visitors and is on the fourth floor of the museum 211 The Library collects materials covering such subjects as mammalogy earth and planetary science astronomy and astrophysics anthropology entomology herpetology ichthyology paleontology ethology ornithology mineralogy invertebrates systematics ecology oceanography conchology exploration and travel history of science museology bibliography genomics and peripheral biological sciences The collection is rich in retrospective materials some going back to the 15th century that are difficult to find elsewhere 212 History Edit In its early years the Library expanded its collection mostly through such gifts as the John C Jay conchological library the Carson Brevoort library on fishes and general zoology the ornithological library of Daniel Giraud Elliot the Harry Edwards entomological library the Hugh Jewett collection of voyages and travel and the Jules Marcou geology collection In 1903 the American Ethnological Society deposited its library in the museum and in 1905 the New York Academy of Sciences followed suit by transferring its collection of 10 000 volumes Today the Library s collections contain over 550 000 volumes of monographs serials pamphlets reprints microforms and original illustrations as well as film photographic archives and manuscripts fine art memorabilia and rare book collections The new Library was designed by the firm Roche Dinkeloo in 1992 The space is 55 000 sq ft 5 100 m2 and includes five different conservation zones ranging from the 50 person reading room and public offices to temperature and humidity controlled rooms 213 Special collections Edit Institutional Archives Manuscripts and Personal Papers Includes archival documents field notebooks clippings and other documents relating to the museum its scientists and staff scientific expeditions and research museum exhibitions education and general administration 214 Art and Memorabilia Collection 215 Moving Image Collection 216 Vertical Files Relating to exhibitions expeditions and museum operations 217 Activities offered EditResearch activities Edit A matrix barcode that uniquely identifies a specimen in the museum s entomology collection The museum has a scientific staff of more than 225 and sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year Many of the fossils on display represent unique and historic pieces that were collected during the museum s golden era of worldwide expeditions 1880s 1930s Examples of some of these expeditions financed in whole or part by the AMNH are Jesup North Pacific Expedition the Whitney South Seas Expedition the Roosevelt Rondon Scientific Expedition the Crocker Land Expedition and the expeditions to Madagascar and New Guinea by Richard Archbold On a smaller scale expeditions continue into the present The museum also publishes several peer reviewed journals including the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 218 Educational outreach Edit AMNH s education programs include outreach to schools in New York City by the Moveable Museum 219 Additionally the Museum itself offers a wide variety of educational programs camps and classes for students from pre K to post graduate levels Notably the Museum sponsors the Lang Science Program a comprehensive 5th 12th grade research and science education program and the Science Research Mentorship Program SRMP among the most prestigious paid internships in NYC in which pairs of students conduct a full year of intensive original research with an AMNH scientist 220 Richard Gilder Graduate School Edit The AMNH offers a Master of Arts in Teaching MAT in Earth Science 221 and a PhD in Comparative Biology 222 223 On October 23 2006 the museum launched the Richard Gilder Graduate School which offers a PhD in Comparative Biology becoming the first American museum in the United States to award doctoral degrees in its own name Accredited in 2009 in 2011 the graduate school had 11 students enrolled who work closely with curators and they have access to the collections 224 225 226 The first seven graduates to complete the program were awarded their degrees on September 30 2013 227 The dean of the graduate school is AMNH paleontologist John J Flynn and the namesake and major benefactor is Richard Gilder The MAT Earth Science Residency program was launched in 2012 to address a critical shortage of qualified science teachers in New York State particularly in high needs schools with diverse populations In 2015 the MAT program officially joined the Richard Gilder Graduate School with the NYS Board of Regents authorizing the Gilder School to grant the MAT degree The program has about 16 graduates complete the program each year Southwestern Research Station EditThe AMNH operates a biological field station in Portal Arizona among the Chiricahua Mountains The Southwestern Research Station was established in 1955 purchased with a grant from philanthropist David Rockefeller and with entomologist Mont Cazier as its first director 228 The station in a biodiversity hotspot is used by researchers and students and offers occasional seminars to the public 229 Notable people EditPresidents Edit The museum s first three presidents were all cofounders 16 17 John David Wolfe served from 1869 until his death in 1872 230 he was followed by Robert L Stuart who resigned in 1881 231 232 The third president Morris K Jesup was president for over 25 years serving until his death in 1908 233 Upon his death Jesup bequeathed 1 million to the museum 234 The fourth president Henry Fairfield Osborn was appointed on the death of Jesup he consolidated the museum s expansion and developed it further 233 After Osborn resigned in 1933 F Trubee Davison became the AMNH s fifth president 235 236 Davison stepped down in 1951 and Alexander M White was elected as the museum s president 237 Gardner D Stout then served as president from 1968 to 1975 when Robert Guestier Goelet was elected in his place 238 Goelet served until 1987 when he was placed on the board of trustees He was succeeded by George D Langdon Jr the first president in the museum s history to receive a salary all previous presidents had served without pay 239 Ellen Futter Edit Ellen V Futter has been president of the museum since 1993 240 241 Futter is the first woman to serve as the AMNH s president 240 The board began searching for a new president in June 2022 after Futter announced that she planned to step down when the Gilder Center opened in March 2023 242 Sean M Decatur Edit Sean M Decatur was named as Futter s successor on Dec 7 2022 Decatur will become the first Africian American president of the museum when he begins work on April 3 2023 243 Other associated names Edit Famous names associated with the museum include the dinosaur hunter of the Gobi Desert Roy Chapman Andrews one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones 244 photographer Yvette Borup Andrews George Gaylord Simpson biologist Ernst Mayr pioneer cultural anthropologists Franz Boas and Margaret Mead explorer and geographer Alexander H Rice Jr and ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy Surroundings EditThe museum is at 79th Street and Central Park West There is a direct entrance into the museum from the New York City Subway s 81st Street Museum of Natural History station served by the B and C trains 245 On a pedestal outside the museum s Columbus Avenue entrance is a stainless steel time capsule which was created after a design competition that was won by Santiago Calatrava The capsule was sealed at the beginning of 2000 to mark the beginning of the 3rd millennium It takes the form of a folded saddle shaped volume symmetrical on multiple axes that explores formal properties of folded spherical frames Calatrava described it as a flower The plan is that the capsule will be opened in the year 3000 246 The museum is in a 17 acre 69 000 m2 city park known as Theodore Roosevelt Park that extends from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue and from West 77th to 81st Streets and that contains park benches gardens and lawns and also a dog run 247 In popular culture EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed June 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message The museum is featured in many works of art and popular culture Literature Edit In J D Salinger s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist Holden Caulfield at one point finds himself heading towards the museum reflecting on past visits and remarking that what he likes is the permanence of the exhibits there 248 The museum was the setting for the 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest but was not featured in the film adaptation One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing which was set in the Natural History Museum in London England The novel Murder at the Museum of Natural History by Michael Jahn 1994 features the museum As the New York Museum of Natural History the museum is a favorite setting in many Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novels including Relic 1995 Reliquary 1997 The Cabinet of Curiosities 2002 and The Book of the Dead 2007 FBI Special Agent Aloysius X L Pendergast plays a major role in all of these thrillers Preston was manager of publications at the museum before embarking upon his fiction writing career The museum has appeared repeatedly in the fiction of dark fantasy author Caitlin R Kiernan including appearances in her fifth novel Daughter of Hounds her work on the DC Vertigo comic book The Dreaming 47 Trinket and many of her short stories including Valentia and Onion both collected in To Charles Fort With Love 2005 Film Edit A large portion of the 2017 film Wonderstruck takes place in the museum showing the museum in 1927 as well as 1977 249 The museum in the film Night at the Museum 2006 is based on a 1993 book that was set at the AMNH The Night at the Museum The interior scenes were shot at a sound stage in Vancouver British Columbia but exterior shots of the museum s facade were done at the actual AMNH AMNH officials have credited the movie with increasing the number of visitors during the holiday season in 2006 by almost 20 percent 250 Its sequels Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian 2009 and Night at the Museum Secret of the Tomb 2014 were also partially set in this museum The 2005 movie The Squid and the Whale takes its name from the diorama of the giant squid and the sperm whale in the museum s Hall of Ocean Life The diorama is shown in the film s final scene An ending for the 1993 film We re Back A Dinosaur s Story shows all four dinosaurs finally reaching the AMNH Scenes from the horror film Exorcist II The Heretic 1977 and the biographic film Malcolm X 1992 were filmed in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals In the 1955 Czechoslovak film Journey to the Beginning of Time Czech Cesta do praveku literally Journey into prehistory the four boys end their journey on a bench inside the AMNH s 77th St entrance beneath the exhibit of the long boat in which they d had their adventure While the story could be dismissed as a dream one boy s journal has somehow suffered all the wear amp tear of their journey through prehistoric eras A dubbed and partly re filmed US version of the film was released in 1966 under the title Journey to the Beginning of Time An early scene of Howard Hawks 1938 film Bringing Up Baby is set in the museum The 1914 popular silent cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur was set in the Museum Television Edit Many episodes of television sitcoms and dramas have been set in the museum In 2009 the museum hosted the live finale of the second season of The Celebrity Apprentice In the episode Top Chef All Stars Night at the Museum both the Quickfire Challenge and Elimination Challenge required the chef contestants to cook at the American Museum of Natural History In the NBC sitcom Friends Ross works in the museum from 1994 until he is fired in 1999 In The One Where Ross and Rachel You Know Ross and Rachel have sex in one of the exhibits stunning a group of schoolchildren when they wake up the following morning Video games Edit The AMNH is featured in video games including Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony where it is known as the Liberty State Natural History Museum and Ghostbusters The Video Game Gallery Edit Bengal tiger at the American Museum of Natural History Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals Diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals Butterfly Conservatory Display in Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Tibetan Vajrapani statue Tibetan Kalachakra statue The museum s south range and some of the west facade in the 1920s American bison and pronghorn diorama right Night view of the museum looking northwest from across Central Park WestSee also EditList of museums and cultural institutions in New York City List of most visited museums in the United States List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets Education in New York City Margaret Mead Film Festival Constantin AstoriReferences EditNotes Edit The founders included Theodore Roosevelt Sr John David Wolfe 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