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American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 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 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 million square feet AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually. (Wikipedia)

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Visitors spend on average 3 - 5 hours here

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Traveler Notes

The museum has an impressive collection of dinosaur fossils. If you are tight on time, skip the first 3 floors and head directly to the 4th floor for the fossils. It was fascinating to learn so many different species of dinosaurs roamed on earth for 160 million years and then went completely extinct 60-70 million years ago.

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