The American Natural History Museum’s new Gilder Center, which opened to the public on May 4, offers visitors plenty of wow moments.
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What New York’s Cave-Like Natural History Museum Misses About Nature
Studio Gang’s design for Manhattan’s $465 million Gilder Center takes its inspiration from a canyon, but its architects didn’t always heed nature’s best design tips.
Under the vault of the 1936 Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, the eager young archaeologist exploring Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History meets Barosaurus and Allosaurus, skeletons cast in a frozen prehistoric battle.
Inside the enormous glass box of the 2000 Rose Center for Earth and Space at AMNH, the avid young astronaut finds the 87-foot-diameter fixed sphere representing the sun.