Hours

The Museum is open daily, 10:00 a.m.—5:45 p.m.
The Rose Center remains remains open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Friday of every month.
The Museum is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Admission

Admission to the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins is free with suggested Museum admission.

For More Information:
See Visitor Information or call (212) 769-5100 for details on getting to the Museum, exhibition information, parking, and more.

Accompanying Books Celebrate Human Origins

Based on the new Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, co-curators, Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle have written an engaging illustrated book for children ages 8 and up that explains our human origins, Bones, Brains, and DNA: The Human Genome and Human Evolution. Published by Bunker Hill Publishing, the book takes young readers to the cutting edge of science, exploring and examining the tools by which we study our origins, some of the milestones in hominid development, human movement across the Earth and the beginnings of being human through language, music, art and tools. The 48-page book is illustrated by award-winning artist Patricia J. Wynne, and features two Museum mice, Wallace and Darwin, as narrators who will charm and challenge budding young scientists. The hardcover book is available in the Museum Shop at the American Museum of Natural History for $16.95.

Another book related to the Spitzer Hall and written by Drs. Tattersall and DeSalle, this time aimed at an adult audience, Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves, will be published by Texas A&M University Press in April 2007.