What is American Museum of Natural History?
{{Infobox Museum |name = American Museum of Natural History |image = Amnh.jpg |imagesize = 250 |map_type = |latitude = |longitude = |established = 1869 |location = Central Park West at 79th Street, [[New York, NY]] |type = [[Science]] |visitors = ''About 5 million visits annually'' |director = '''[[Ellen V. Futter]]''' |curator = |publictransit= B, C, M7, M10, M11, M79 |website = ''http://www.amnh.org'' }} The '''American Museum of Natural History''' is a [[museum]] about [[science]]. It is one of the biggest and [[Tourism|most-visited]] museums in the world. The museum is made of 25 connected buildings in Theodore Roosevelt Park on the [[Upper West Side]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|USA]]. It has 46 [[exhibition]] halls, a lot of [[Laboratory|laboratories]], a [[research]] [[library]], and more than 34 million specimens and [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]]. More than 200 [[scientist]]s work at the museum, researching [[Biological species concept|biology]], [[paleontology]], [[earth science]], [[astrophysics]], and [[anthropology]]. Its [[graduate school]] awards [[Doctorate|doctorate degrees]] in [[biology]] and [[Master's degree|masters degrees]] in [[education]]. The museum also provides [[education]] programs for children and adults, including for [[teacher]]s. {{Commons category|American Museum of Natural History}} [[File:Allosaurus AMNH lobby.jpg|thumb|left|Hungry [[Allosaurus]] greets arriving visitors in the Main Lobby of the museum]] Famous people who have worked at the museum include [[Theodore Roosevelt|Teddy Roosevelt]], [[Franz Boas]], [[Margaret Mead]], and [[Neil deGrasse Tyson|Neil DeGrasse Tyson]]. == Other websites == * [http://www.amnh.org/ AMNH] American Museum of Natural History main website * [http://manhattan.about.com/od/artsandculture/a/nyhistorymuseum_2.htm/ History of the AMNH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111042023/http://manhattan.about.com/od/artsandculture/a