The American Museum of Natural History

Question: Describe about the American Museum of Natural History? Answer: I had visited the American museum of natural history recently. It is in Manhattan, New York. The museum has a collection of 32 million species specimen of humans, plants, fossils, animals, meteorites, minerals, rocks, and human cultural artifacts. The museum compound has 27 interrelated buildings sheltering 45 permanent halls of exhibition, in addition to the library and a planetarium (AMNH, 2015). The museum has area of 1,600,000 square feet. The toured the museum and found two of the areas to be very interesting. There are several halls each of which depicting the various animals, species of birds and even human civilization and the nomadic tribes found across the world. I found the two halls very interesting, one is the Hall of Asian Mammals and the other is the Sanford Hall of North American Birds The Hall of Asian Mammals The hall contains mammals mainly from the Asian region. The hall is also called Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of Asian Mammals. The hall is one storey high and is located at the right of the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. The animals are from India, Burma, Nepal and Malaysia. At the center of the hall there are 2 Asian Elephants. More over there is a giant panda and a Siberian tiger. The elephants were big and had long tusks in their mouth. There is a beautiful documentary of photos and videos with substantial footage that are being played at the hall. The short film called Hunting Tigers in India was also being played at the large monitors. The Sambar deer was very beautiful to watch, so also the Blackbuck, which are rare species. This hall was funded by Arthur S. Vernay, who was an antique dealer. He took the initiative because at that time there were many animals of Asia were becoming rare and were on the verge of becoming extinct, like the Asiatic lion andSumatran rhinoceros (AMNH, 2015). Sanford Hall of North American Birds Sanford Hall of North American Birds is located in the third floor of the museum. It is also one storied tall. Above the Hall of African People the hall is situated and the second level of hall is situated between the Akeleyss Hall and the hall of Primates. The hall has 25 dioramas which presents birds from all over North America and they are basically found in the native location. In 1909, the hall opened. At the extreme end of the hallway there are two huge murals by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a renowned artist and ornithologist. The hall moreover has exhibit cases dedicated to huge collections ofowls, warblers, andraptors. There are a great number of birds on display like the Ring-necked pheasant, California quail, Gambels quail which are desert birds, Red-winged blackbird to name a few (Ny.com, 2015). This hall has the contribution of the famous ornithologist namedFrank Chapman, he was the main person who donated his personal collection of birds to the museum. Plume-hunting for thepu rpose of millinery trade had led to a lot of coastal bird genus to the edge of extermination, most remarkably theGreat Egret. Frank Chapman was an important person in the protection movement that appeared during that time (Thecityreview.com, 2015) References AMNH, (2015).Calendar. [online] Available at: https://www.amnh.org/calendar [Accessed 22 Mar. 2015]. AMNH, (2015).History 1869-1900. [online] Available at: https://www.amnh.org/about-us/history/history-1869-1900 [Accessed 22 Mar. 2015]. Ny.com, (2015).American Museum of Natural History, New York City. [online] Available at: https://www.ny.com/museums/american.museum.of.natural.history.html [Accessed 22 Mar. 2015]. Thecityreview.com, (2015).The Upper West Side: Central Park West: The American Museum of Natural History. [online] Available at: https://www.thecityreview.com/uws/cpw/amerhist.html [Accessed 22 Mar. 2015].