One of the three great museums in New York is Museum of Natural History, known worldwide for the large dinosaur skeleton that greets us at its entrance.
If in the one found at the Metropolitan Museum We find an enormous variety of art from all periods and all over the world, and in the MOMA From New York we are facing the world's largest center of modern and contemporary art, the American Museum of Natural History, due to its large catalog of parts, is an impressive natural science museum.
We find it northwest of Manhattan, in the 175 Central Park West, between West 77th and 81st streets, next to Central Park, relatively close to the John Lennon Memorial.
Apart from its large collection of animals, plants, fossils and other elements of nature, this museum a wide variety of interactive and audiovisual shows, included documentaries in IMAX cinema.
Among them, there are documentaries dedicated to mammals, climate change, the oceans, or space, the so-called “Cosmic Collisions".
It is worth keeping in mind that during the high tourist season there is a huge crowd of visitors to the museum, even causing long queues at the entrance at certain times. Of course, this is a museum where we can take photos without problems.
Schedules and prices to visit the New York Museum of Natural History
The Natural History Museum opens every day, from 10 a.m. to 17 p.m..
La entrance to the museum is governed by “suggested pricing” system, so that we are free to pay a lower amount than what is shown to us as the entry price. Currently (July 2009) the entrance price to the Museum of Natural History is 16 dollars for adults and $9 for children.
A visit to the American Museum of Natural History is already included in the New York Pass tourist pass.
If we want to visit any of the Special Exhibitions, or see the space shows or the IMAX documentaries, there are special prices, which include general admission to the museum. The price of this special ticket varies between $20 and $24 for adults, and $12 for children.
Surprisingly, if we do a online booking, this price will be increased by four dollars, in addition to forcing us to pay the special suggested prices mentioned above.
More information about the New York Museum of Natural History
- Watch the American Museum of Natural History on the map of New York
- Official website of Museum of Natural History
- New York Pass which includes a visit to the Natural History Museum
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