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<p>Share in the excitement of discovery with more than 40 galleries exploring the natural world and the universe at one of NYC's top destinations, the American Museum of Natural History. </p><p>Highlights: </p><p>• Taking the museum experience to soaring new heights, the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation showcases: </p><p>The year-round Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium with up to 80 species of freeflying butterflies. </p><p>The Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium, a gallery devoted to Earth’s most diverse and abundant animal group. </p><p>Floor-to-ceiling displays of the Museum’s scientific collections spread out across three levels that help us understand the natural world and global cultures. </p><p>• Explore the Museum’s famous fossil halls, featuring the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world, including imposing mounts of Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus, as well as the 122-foot-long cast of a titanosaur, a recently discovered giant herbivore that lived in the forests of today’s Patagonia about 100 to 95 million years ago. </p><p>• Discover more than 5,000 minerals, including giant amethyst geodes and fluorescent minerals, in the spectacular Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals </p><p>• Explore marine ecosystems in the immersive Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, featuring models of more than 750 animals, including the iconic 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale </p><p>• Don’t miss the world-renowned habitat dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals, Hall of African Mammal Halls, and others, which depict specific locations throughout the world </p><p>• Learn about the evolutionary story of the human family in the Hall of Human Origins </p><p>• Explore the 13-billion-year history of the universe in the galleries of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium </p>