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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History is an individually designated New York City landmark in Upper West Side (Central), New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

American Museum of Natural History, a museum in New York
American Museum of Natural History, photographed as a museum and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Gigi alt · CC-BY-SA-3.0

Good for

  • Rainy day — Somewhere with an indoor collection to spend an afternoon in. It is in this corpus as an individually designated New York City landmark housing a museum.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "American Museum of Natural History"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
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Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission gives this record in Individual Landmark Sites. Read from the response, never transcribed.
category
Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "Individual Landmark".
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Individual Landmark Sites (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
2020 neighborhood tabulation area, from the code published with the record.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record LP-00282 of Individual Landmark Sites, retrieved 2026-09-08.

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