Opening Winter 2023
Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation
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Share in the excitement of discovery with new exhibition galleries, an immersive experience, classrooms, and more, beginning with the soaring Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium.
Encounter spectacular architecture in a distinctive new building, designed by Studio Gang, that connects the Museum’s campus and creates a new entrance on Columbus Avenue.
Be transported into nature’s hidden realms—from the depths of the ocean to the DNA strands in all living organisms—in Invisible Worlds, a unique immersive experience that illustrates how all life on Earth is connected.
Explore the Museum’s scientific collections like never before, in floor-to-ceiling displays over three floors, and discover how collections help us understand the natural world and global cultures, in the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core.
Visit the Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium, a gallery devoted to Earth’s most diverse and abundant animal group and home of the largest leafcutter ant colony in the US.
Delight in 80 species of free-flying butterflies in the year-round Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium.
Enjoy programs, resources, and park views in the new David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center.
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The American Museum of Natural History gratefully acknowledges Richard Gilder and the Gilder Foundation, Inc., whose leadership support made the construction of the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation possible.
The Gilder Center is also made possible thanks to the generous support of the City of New York, the Council of the City of New York, the Manhattan Borough President, the State of New York, the New York State Assembly, and the New York State Senate.
Critical founding support has been provided by David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman; Kenneth C. Griffin; the Davis Family;
the Bezos Family Foundation;
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.; the Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family; Judy and
Josh Weston;
the Macaulay Family Foundation; Katheryn C. Patterson and Thomas L. Kempner, Jr.; New York Life Foundation;
the Seedlings Foundation in honor of Michael Vlock; the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation; Valerie and Jeffrey
Peltier; Morgan Stanley; The Marc Haas Foundation in honor of Robert H.
Haines; the Hearst Foundations; the Yurman Family;
the Charina Endowment Fund; Nancy B. and Hart Fessenden; Keryn and Ted Mathas; the Estate of Margaret D. Bishop;
the Henry Peterson Foundation; and an anonymous donor.