The Museum is announcing initial steps in implementing updates to the 1990 NAGPRA federal law.
addressing the history of our Museum, and natural history museums in general, that led
In addition to a new exhibition, activities include ongoing consultation, repatriation, and collections stewardship.
In 2024, the Cultural Resources Office, led by Director Nell Murphy, conducted more
Find out about the intent of the original planning commission as well as of the architect who designed the memorial and the sculptor who created the statue.
Plans for the Roosevelt Memorial led to a new building along Central Park West.
For more than a century, herpetologists from the American Museum of Natural History have pioneered frog research worldwide. Expeditions to remote regions enable researchers to observe species in their
Reports of species declines have led to smarter land use practices that meet the
Find out about the three figures depicted in the monument and the multiple ways in which the statue is interpreted today.
Roosevelt—like the country he led—has a complicated and sometimes troubling history
Find out more about the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
extensive gift of mammals from the Indian subcontinent, the result of an expedition led
