American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City was founded in 1869. It has 25 buildings, 46 exhibition halls, research laboratories and a renowned library. Its collections contain over 32 million specimens. It has about 4 million visitors a year. It has one of the world's finest exhibitions of fossils demonstrating the evolution of humans and other vertebrates.

See also

• Naturalism
• Charles Willson Peale
• National Museum of Natural History

External links

• The American Museum of Natural History website.