Our second day in New York City was dedicated to visiting the Amercian Museum of Natural History, where the extensive collections easily filled out the majority of our day. The AMNH houses an enormous collection including specimens of plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts.

Some of our highlights were:

Wandering the halls containing the realistic dioramas of widlflife, habitats and cultural artefacts from around the world.
Watching the Worlds Beyond Earth film in the amazingly preserved classic theatre.
Exploring the all the dinosaur fossils on the Fourth Floor
Marvelling at the gems and minerals in the Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals

There were also so many other additional exhibitions, some at an additional cost, so we could have stayed longer but we covered a fair bit in our visit, enough information for the girls to absorb in one visit.

Tickets

I purchase tickets in advance the night before via the Headout App. There are no timed entries with the tickets but we did arrive just on opening time as I had read the museum can get very crowded and the line to get in can be quite long. When we arrived there was a line of people waiting but the line moved quickly once the doors opened.

Adults tickets are $30 USD while kids were $18 USD

Afterwards caught the subway back to the Flatiron District and stopped in at a bookshop called Books of Wonder on 42 West 17th St which is dedicated to new and second hand children’s books. We can’t go past a good book shop and this one had a wonderful vibe with an incredible variety of childrens classic and modern favourites.

That evening, Braino went out to watch a NFL playoff at a pub near Madison Square Gardens and it actually started snowing overnight, we woke up to see a light dusting of snow in the surrounding city streets.