On day 6, one of our stops was the amazing American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on the Upper West Side. It was established back in 1869 and is the largest natural history museum in the world. If you haven’t heard of it, you probably recognise it from films like Wonderstruck and the Night in the Museum trilogy.

The AMNH has several permanent exhibition halls, as well as special temporary exhibitions. The halls include Biodiversity and Environmental Halls, Bird and Reptiles and Amphibians Halls, Earth and Planetary Sciences Halls, Fossil Halls, Grand Gallery, Human Origins and Cultural Halls, Mammal Halls, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial and the Discovery Room. Each of the halls has one to six specific exhibitions within them.

If you would like to visit this museum you can find Ticket prices are quite reasonable and are cheaper for students, seniors and children. Within the museum, there are also a variety of cafes and food courts, but you can also bring your own food. The museum also offers Sleepovers for children and adults, as well as a range of public and self-guided museum tours. To see the layout, see the map.

Our biggest interest to visit the museum was to see the fossils of dinosaur, animals and human species, as well as geographical cultural and animal life-like displays. So you can see the photos I took are mostly from these sections. We didn’t get around to see all the permanent exhibitions in a few hours. So you plan on seeing it all, make sure you have the entire day. Its unforgettable experience, especially if your a museum junkie like me.

My favourite halls were definitely the North American Mammals and Human Origins species. The halls vary in terms of standard of displays. Some were better lite and detailed, others were a little bland. However, when you compare this with other museums, it’s pretty spectacular as a whole. I did have trouble photographing with the dim lighting and hundreds of other visitors, but I tried as best I could. If you would like to know what I actually photographed, just press the pictures, as I have meticulous labelled most sections.

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall (Entrance)

Fossil Halls

Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs

Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs

Hall of Primitive Mammals

Hall of Advanced Mammals

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center

Hall of Vertebrate Origins

Mammal Halls

Hall of North American Mammals

Hall of Asian Mammals

Birds and Reptiles and Amphibians Halls

Hall of Birds of the World

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall

Human Origins and Cultural Halls

Northwest Coast Indians

Hall of Mexico and Central America

Hall of South American Peoples

Hall of African Peoples

Hall of Asian People

Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins