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The American Museum of Natural History, New York
The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869, is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions.
The Museum encompasses 45 permanent exhibition halls, including the halls of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium, as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions.
It is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, New York State's official memorial to its 33rd governor and the nation's 26th president, and a tribute to Roosevelt's enduring legacy of conservation.
The new dinosaur
The Museum has added a cast of a 122-foot-long dinosaur to its collection.
Paleontologists believe that this dinosaur, still to be named, is a giant herbivore that belongs to a group known as titanosaurs, and weighed in at around 70 tons.
The dinosaur on which the Museum's new cast is based was excavated in the desert near La Flecha, 135 miles west of Trelew, Patagonia.
The unveiling of the Museum's new dinosaur is part of a series of events, public programs, exhibitions, and digital offerings highlighting dramatic developments in paleontology.
Dinosaurs Among Us
This spring, the Museum presents the new exhibition Dinosaurs Among Us (21 March 2016 through 2 January 2017), which will examine how one group of dinosaurs evolved into the creatures we call birds.
The American Museum of Natural History is home to one of the largest and most diverse collections of its kind in the world, with 6 million specimens including more than 5 million fossil invertebrates and nearly 1 million fossil vertebrates.
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ISSN 2634-7032
London, United Kingdom
+44 0 7764 198 286