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The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [5] Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals and Morgan Memorial Hall ...
Alice E. Gray (June 7, 1914 – April 27, 1994) was an American entomologist and origamist.She worked as an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York for 43 years, writing, illustrating, and creating large models of insects.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS [1] (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) [2] was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.
On October 29, 1964, at New York's American Museum of Natural History Murphy was involved in the notorious burglary of 24 precious gems including the Star of India, the Eagle Diamond and the DeLong Star Ruby. [5] This heist was called the "Jewel Heist of the Century." It targeted the museum's J.P. Morgan jewel collection. [6]
In 1906, the American Museum of Natural History stated that the weight of the meteorite was "at least 31,200 pounds, or about 15.6 tons", [2] consistent with American usage of "ton" usually meaning the short ton. As of 2023, the American Museum of Natural History website gives the weight as "15.5 tons". [38]
The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins is an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It focuses on human evolution, paleoanthropology, archaeology and genetics. At the time of its opening in 1921, it was the first museum exhibit to discuss the controversial topic of evolution. [1]
The Edmontosaurus mummy AMNH 5060 is an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Discovered in 1908 in the United States near Lusk, Wyoming , it was the first dinosaur specimen found to include a skeleton encased in skin impressions from large parts of the body.