American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City was founded in 1869. It has 25 buildings, 46 exhibition halls, research laboratories and a renowned library. Its collections contain over 32 million specimens. It has about 4 million visitors a year. It has one of the world's finest exhibitions of fossils demonstrating the evolution of humans and other vertebrates.

## See also[edit]

* Naturalism
* Charles Willson Peale
* National Museum of Natural History

## External links[edit]

* The American Museum of Natural History website.