Grand Gallery

D. Finnin/© AMNH

Just inside the 77th Street entrance, the Grand Gallery is home to a variety of specimens on extended display: a colorful ancient ammonite, a rare slab of jadeite jade, and a case of ancient trilobite fossils.

The Grand Gallery is also a gateway to the Museum’s Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins and the Northwest Coast Hall.

In This Hall

Exhibit Ammonite Ammonite fossils are an incredible source of information, from dating rocks to confirming the presence of prehistoric seas. Exhibit Jadeite Jade A two-foot-long slice from a jadeite jade boulder provides a window into the dramatic process that formed this type of jade. Exhibit Trilobites Some of the trilobite fossils on display are hundreds of millions of years old.