Highlights
There’s so much to see in more than 40 halls! Here’s a handy list of popular exhibits.
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Floor 4
Titanosaur
This cast of a juvenile sauropod is 122 feet long! The species, Patagotitan mayorum, was discovered in 2014 in Argentina.
Megalodon
This extinct shark’s name means “big tooth.” Fun fact: its bite was stronger than T. rex’s!
Tyrannosaurus rex
One of the largest carnivores ever, T. rex was discovered on a Museum expedition. This mount has been on view since 1915.
Triceratops
This famous horned dinosaur, a plant eater, replaced its 144+ teeth two to four times a lifetime.
Lestodon
This giant ground sloth, an extinct mammal from South America called Lestodon, is “armored” due to bony plates in its skin.
Mammoth
Larger than its woolly relative, this extinct pachyderm lived in Indiana about 11,000 years ago.
Floor 3
Moai Statue
This is a cast of a moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The people of Rapa Nui made these stone statues to honor ancestors.
Hadrosaur Footprint
A duck-billed dinosaur likely made this impression pulling its foot out of mud 83–72 million years ago.
Komodo Dragon
One venomous bite from this Indonesian lizard, the biggest and most powerful lizard alive today, can kill its prey!
Floor 2
Barosaurus and Allosaurus
This imagined face-off features the world’s tallest freestanding dinosaur mount.
African Elephant
African elephants are the largest living land mammals. They live in family groups of 10–20, led by the oldest female.
Gorilla
Carl Akeley planned this diorama in the 1920s to call attention to these extraordinary animals, which were already overhunted.
King Penguin
King Penguin parents near Antarctica take turns watching over eggs and chicks, carrying them on their feet to protect them from cold.
Floor 1
Climate Wall
On this dynamic digital exhibit, data from NASA, NOAA, and other sources highlight our changing climate and its effects.
Alaska Brown Bear
In this iconic diorama, hungry bears fresh from hibernation get a welcome salmon, ceded by a sea otter in retreat.
Spectrum of Life
This exhibit of 1,500 organisms offers an overview of the amazing diversity of life on Earth.
Blue Whale
The largest animal ever to live on our planet wasn’t a dinosaur—it’s the blue whale! This iconic life-size model is 94 feet long.
Sperm Whale and Giant Squid
This diorama is a deep-sea encounter humans have not witnessed but deduce from whales’ scars and stomach contents.
Giant Sequoia
Felled by loggers in California in 1891, the tree from which this slice was cut grew for more than 1,300 years.
Great Canoe
This 63-foot canoe shows the work of both Haíłzaqv and Haida artists of the Pacific Northwest.
Lucy
See a cast of the 3.18-million-year-old “Lucy” fossil, which offers evidence that this species of human ancestors walked upright.
Giant Geodes
The crystals in this dazzling pair of geodes took millions of years to turn from colorless quartz to purple amethyst.
Star of India
This is the largest-known gem-quality star sapphire, at just over 563 carats—and it is about 2 billion years old!
See the real exhibits behind the characters featured in Night at the Museum movies.