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American Museum of Natural History
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Traveling The Silk RoadTraveling The Silk Road – Step 1,000 years back in time to experience the sights, sounds, and stories of the greatest trading route in history. Now Open.

Extreme Mammals Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All TimeExtreme Mammals explores the surprising and sometimes bizarre world of extinct and living mammals, featuring spectacular fossils from the Museum's collections. Now Open.

FrogsFrogs: A Chorus of Colors – Back by popular demand, this delightful exhibition introduces visitors to the colorful and richly diverse world of frogs. Now Open.

ButterfliesThe Butterfly Conservatory – The butterflies are back! Celebrate the eleventh annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Now Open.

Journey to the StarsJourney to the Stars – In this all-new Space Show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born. Visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise some five billion years in the future. Now Playing.

Spider SilkSpider Silk – See a spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar. Now Open.

Wild OceanWild Ocean – This new IMAX film follows the epic struggles of an amazing array of sea life off the coast of South Africa, when the annual sardine migration arrives and brings with it dramatic consequences. Now Playing.

On Feathered WingsOn Feathered Wings: Birds in Flight – Four renowned wildlife photographers present striking photographs of birds as we rarely see them: up close in flight.
Now Open.

DiamondsNew Diamonds – A new display of 25 dazzling diamonds are now on view at the Museum's Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems. Now Open.


Rose Center for Earth and SpacePermanent ExhibitionsPast ExhibitionsIMAXFloor Plan
Meet the CuratorMeet the Curator
John Flynn

Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology, and Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Curator, Extreme Mammals


Meet the Curator