American Museum of Natural History

Enormous... but look out for the time!

Have you ever been inside the museum of Natural History in New York? 

And who doesn't think twice about "Night at the museum" film?

It finds at New  York city , as well as the city most popular in the United States of America and one of the most populous urban agglomerations.

This wonderful museum is located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, on the Central Park West.

In the 1869s it was purpose-built to promote and expand the studies of natural history.

Consecrated to Thoedore Roosevelt, the museum house habitat group of all the world, both upper and lower the sea, and it include a global fame show about the dinosaurs.

The museum is popular for academics and people of New York, too.

EXPLORE THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

It doesn't happen everydays that we hide ourselves in the middle of the dinosaurs!!

Lead to an enormous basilica where appear a skeleton of the mom of Barosaurus that she's in action to defend his baby to an Allosaurus.

See the real exhibits behind the characters featured in the Night at the Museum movies!

The museum has four  floor (excluded the lower level).

1st Floor

There are hall of remarkable interest how the hall of Biodiversity, hall of Ocean Life with the Blue Whale, hall of minerals, hall of Human Origins with the skeleton of Lucy, hall of North American Forests with Sequoia Tree,  North American Mammals with grizzly, etc.

Hall of Biodiversity

The American Museum of Natural History has a Hall of Biodiversity, where they have arranged a 100-foot wall in a timeline of complexity (called the Spectrum of Life) showing animal life as it developed from simple single cells to furry mammals. The elements were taken from their famous vast collections of every kind of butterfly, insect, mollusk, and every variety of creature preserved in the late 19th century. They all have been sitting in the carefully catalogued storerooms of specimens assembled from all over the world.

The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

At 94 feet long, the 21,000-pound fiberglass model of a female blue whale is a Museum treasure. Blue whales have been hunted to near extinction. Today, the Museum's blue whale serves as a reminder of our responsibility to our environment, both on land and in the sea.

This is a model of a blue whale found in 1925 off the southern tip of South America. The largest animal alive today, this mammal species is fast, traveling up to 30 miles an hour. Blue whales are also loud, their deep sounds heard 620 miles away. They maintain their weight (sometimes more than 100 tons) on a diet of small crustaceans called krill.

Diorama

There is a palpable sense of place in these dioramas, such that the viewer feels instantly transported.The dioramas are based on precise field observations, and depict scenes featuring the moose and brown bears of Alaska, cougars in the Grand Canyon, and the wolves of Gunflint Lake, Minnesota, goats, grizzly bears, among others.

Sequoia tree

This sequoia slice offers a lesson in how to discover the age of a tree. Around the central point of the slice are concentric rings, some of which are invisible to the naked eye. Each of these represents one year's growth.These rare and remarkable trees are a natural treasure.Today, it is illegal to cut them down.

The halls of minerals

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals presents hundreds of striking mineral-bearing specimens collected from around the world, including a giant topaz crystal from Brazil,  block of azurite-malachite ore from Arizona, and a nephrite jade slab from Poland.At the center of the hall, one section depicts the chemical, physical, optical, and other properties of minerals, and another presents eight environments, some deep within the Earth and others near the surface, in which minerals form.

Human origins halls

"Lucy" is one of the most complete skeletons found to date from the early hominids that flourished between 4 and 2 million years ago. The skeleton consists of bones from a single individual, presumably female.Discovered by scientists in 1974, Lucy was named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which the researchers listened to as they celebrated their remarkable find.

2nd Floor

3rd Floor 

There are remarkable halls starting from the hall of Pacific People with Rapa Nui; 

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Moai Cast

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famous for its rows of moai, basalt figures of deified ancestors that were carved in quarries, then moved to a platform on the water's edge. This plaster cast was made from a mold secured during a 1934-1935 Museum expedition to Rapa Nui

There are 887 moai on Rapa Nui, where they are revered, even considered by some islanders to be sacred. Since the Museum's moai cast was featured in the movie Night at the Museum, it has become a popular exhibit.

Hey! Dum-dum!You give me gum-gum!-Easter Island Head

Hall of Primates

The Hall of Primates explores the mammalian order that includes apes, monkeys, and humans. Primates range in size from the pygmy marmoset to the gorilla, and include species that feed on insects, fruit, leaves, and sap.The hall is divided into families, with displays of skeletons, mounted specimens, and artwork that trace both shared characteristics and those unique to each group. For example, while many primates such as spider monkeys have long tails they use for grasping, apes, which have hands that are specialized for swinging from trees, do not have tails.

There are various halls how the hall of Hall of African Mammals, etc. but in my opinion these are the best of the halls!!

4th Floor

Well, this is the last floor of the Museum, en fact it ends with a bang!