Academic: American Museum of Natural History

When Aidan, Alex, and I arrived we saw a small line forming near the side entrance. Little did we know that there was a large zig-zag line inside, we ended up waiting for about an hour…We finally met up with Racquel and Sam and got to explore some interesting exhibits. The exhibits that we liked the most was the Bio-Diversity exhibit and the Marine Life. The Bio-Diversity exhibit had all types of animals, ranging from vertebrae such as lions, and birds to invertebrates, which had a plethora of insects.The Marine Life in particular had some preserved lobsters that were huge! Finally, my favorite exhibit and perhaps the one everyone gets excited about are the fossil exhibits which have all kinds of dinosaur bones and remains. I found it very interesting how certain ancestors of wildboar, with huge tusks, weren’t actually carnivores. There was also a relatively new exhibit that I hadn’t seen before. The last time I visited the museum was when I was in middle school, about 6 years ago. However this new discovery from Argentina was just introduced in 2013, which for me is relatively new because most of the fossils they have are pretty old and were discovered decades ago. All in all, I had a great experience and the fact that entry to many cultural institutions in NYC are free because I’m a CUNY student is encouraging me to go visit other museums.