American Museum of Natural History
Overview
Twenty-six interconnected buildings on Central Park West. The Barosaurus rearing in the rotunda, the blue whale overhead, the great dinosaur halls with T. rex and titanosaur, and the Hayden Planetarium of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Thirty-four million specimens and over 130 million in the library.
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