AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (AMNH)(5 articles)

the american museum of natural history (AMNH), founded in 1869, is one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. the museum encompasses more than 40 permanent exhibition halls, including those in the rose center for earth and space and the hayden planetarium, as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions. the museum’s scientists draw on a world-class permanent collection of more than 34 million specimens and artifacts, some of which are billions of years old, and on one of the largest natural history libraries in the world.