American Museum of Natural History: An Audio Guide with Context

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the oldest and largest natural history museums in the world. On this audio tour with historian and Context Travel expert David Gassett, you’ll discover this truly universal museum, and see several highlights in its collection of over 30 million items. David will take you on a journey that covers the full range of life in our universe, from the forested hills of the museum’s African animal dioramas, to the far reaches of space in its custom-built-to-scale planetarium, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, where our tour ends. Starting at the museum’s monumental entrance on Central Park West, you’ll hear about the history of one of New York’s great civic institutions, and its place in the city today. You’ll visit some of the museum’s oldest, newest, and most famous sites, including a 1,400-year-old sequoia tree in the Hall of North American Forests and the Richard Gilder Center, which you enter through a new cave-like entrance atrium. Along the way, David will direct you to key exhibits in each gallery as you learn to decipher their fascinating stories. On this 75-minute journey, you’ll have a chance to: • Walk beneath a life-size blue whale model to learn about changes in Ocean Science • Discover why a giant stone used to “sing” in museum storage and how museums care for their objects today • Meet Lucy, one of our oldest human ancestors, who revolutionized our understanding of human evolution • Learn how to classify dinosaur fossils like a paleontologist, and take in the skull of an actual Tyrannosaurus Rex • Get to know the complicated legacy of President Teddy Roosevelt, whose memorial lies in the museum • Hear how the museum and advisors from the Indigenous communities of the Pacific Northwest reimagined its historic Northwest Coast Hall By the end of this audio tour, you’ll have insights into the American Museum of Natural History’s collection of different sciences, and a better understanding of its ongoing story of natural history. Please Note: This tour doesn't include entry into the museum. Buy your entry tickets online here.

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