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American Museum of Natural History (Visit this link) updated

AMNH is one of NY's great attractions for travelers and residents alike. Visitors will have to choose from the tremendous number of worthwhile offerings. In addition to some WOW current exhibitions. You will find an amazing display of dinosaurs to delight three-year-olds and their hand holders. Other options include the taxidermy displays that came to life on the screen with Ben Stiller, the Rose Center, and the Hall of Meteorites. New Yorkers with AMNH memberships visit routinely -- to play in the padded rooms of the minerals and gems, catch an IMAX movie, or relax in the Hall of Biodiversity. The Silk Route -- an interactive exhibition that will take you from Xi'An to Baghdad, and includes live music from Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Route Project on Sundays through August 15, 2010; Lizard and Snakes Alive -- an exhibition of 60 squamates from around the world through September 6, 2010.

175 Central Park West @ 77th - 79th Streets

(212) 769-5100

Last Modified: Monday Jul 19 2010

American Museum of Natural History is located in
Upper West Side

other neighborhoods in Upper West Side include:

Columbus Circle , Lincoln Center

Carnegie Hill

Carnegie Hill is the area between 86th and 96th Streets, and between Third and Fifth Avenues that is home to many of the city’s private schools and the families whose children attend them. The neighborhood derives its name from the Carnegie Mansion, former home of Andrew Carnegie and current home of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, well worth a visit at 91st Street and Fifth Avenue. In this neighborhood you will find wonderful shops: clothing and shoes for women and children, gourmet food and wine stores, bookstores and toy stores--each with its own personality and fine service, as they are often proprietor owned and operated.

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