American Museum of natural history is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. A huge complex of twenty-seven interconnected buildings is across the street from Central Park. To explore it in one day and nothing to try: here 32 million artifacts.

The Museum was founded in 1869 by the efforts of celebrities, including Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (father of President Theodore Roosevelt and grandfather of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt), banker and philanthropist Morris Jesup (funded Arctic expedition of Robert Peary, billionaire and philanthropist John Pierpont Morgan. The largest building with corner towers in neo-Romanesque style built by architect Josiah Cleveland Cady. Wall pink brown granite stretch along 77th street 210 meters, the height of the corner towers of 46 meters.

Initially, the collection consisted mainly of stuffed animals and skeletons of animals. The Museum was poor and almost collapsed financially. The situation was saved by philanthropist Morris Jesup elected President of the Museum. It then began the Golden age: a quarter of a century, the exhibition area has increased eleven times, the endowment Fund exceeded one million dollars. Turned scientific work, the Museum sent expeditions to all corners of the continent. In 1902 this expedition discovered the remains of a previously unknown science Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Museum is divided into several themed rooms, each with impressive size and saturation. Halls of dinosaurs possess the world's largest collection of fossils; it shows the original skeletons of the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex and Brontosaurus. In the hall of ocean Life under the ceiling hung a model of a blue whale life-size (19 meters). In Ackley hall you can admire the dioramas of African land animals, differing only from live immobility. This effect has made an outstanding Taxidermist Carl Ackley: contrary to international experience, he refused gaskets skins chips, and painstakingly recreated each Scarecrow skeleton, muscles, blood vessels. In the hall of meteorites Arthur Ross, you can see the world's largest meteorite weighing 34 tons, was found in Greenland. Hall of minerals Harry Frank Guggenheim represents hundreds of unusual geological samples, including emerald "Patricia" (632 carats), sapphire "Star of India" (563 carats).

The strongest impression is made by the Center for the study of earth and space – it is located in a giant transparent cube in which soar-lit areas. Here is Hayden planetarium equipment high resolution, allowing to make an exciting "journey" in the depths of space. Within the main scope is "Outer path" is the path length of 110 meters, during which the visitor gets acquainted with the history of the Universe. One step along this path means 84 million years of evolution of the world. Here you can see a close cluster of stars, a spiral galaxy, the milky way. From the moment of the extinction of the dinosaurs until the end of the road – about half a meter. Human life on this scale is cut in the thickness of the hair.