New York: American Museum of Natural History
Overview
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Your American Natural History Museum tickets open up a fascinating world of scientific and historical exploration!
Highlights
- Visit one of the largest museums in the world, the American Museum of Natural History, containing around 32 million natural specimens.
- See the real exhibits behind the Night at the Museum movies on a self-guided tour, and get to grips with urgent issues at the Climate Change Exhibit.
- Stand under the largest animal that ever lived, a 94-foot-long blue whale. This fiberglass model suspended from the ceiling is so life-like it even has a belly button!
Key Information
Important Information
- Parking: Enter at 81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Rates: Up to 1 hour $26, up to 2 hours $29, 2-5 hours $36, max to close $51 (subject to change). - Download the Explorer app (iOS or Android) for your self-guided experience. - Photography for personal use is allowed with hand-held cameras. No selfie sticks. No flash photography in the Space Theater and the LeFrak Theater. - Masks are strongly recommended, but no longer required, for visitors ages 2 and up. - Location: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) 200 Central Park West - For capacity management reasons, all visitors are required to book a timeslot on the museum's official website (afterwards, you will receive a confirmation email that contains your date and time of entry). - Once through the security check, present your confirmation email, smartphone voucher and a valid ID. - Guests do not have to pay any additional costs after check-out.
Description
**About Museum** Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. Go on an expedition to a Pacific Island, to the deep-sea floor, back to the age of the dinosaurs, or out to the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy – all without leaving New York! Book your American Museum of Natural History tickets in advance and open up a world of discovery. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of the world's cultures. If you want to start big, flash your AMNH tickets and go to the Rose Center for Earth and Space. It explores the 13-billion-year history of the universe and cosmic evolution. Speaking of water: The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life shows you the diversity of the life aquatic including a life-size model of the enormous blue whale; just its heart is the size of a VW Beetle! Elsewhere, get Jurassic at the most important collection of dinosaur fossils in the world, including the mighty T. rex, one of the most fearsome dinosaurs to ever roam the Earth. You thought the T. rex was big? Wait until you see the enormous, snaking Tyrannosaurs on the fourth floor.