The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869 with a dual mission of scientific research andscience education, is one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and culturalinstitutions. TheMuseum encompasses more than 40 permanent exhibition halls, galleries for temporary exhibitions, theRose Center for Earth and Space including the Hayden Planetarium, and the Richard Gilder Center forScience, Education, and Innovation. The Museum’s scientists draw on a world-class permanentcollection of more than 30 million specimens and artifacts, some of which are billions of years old, andon one of the largest natural history libraries in the world. Through its Richard Gilder Graduate School,the Museum offers two of the only free-standing, degree-granting programs of their kind at anymuseum in the U.S.: the Ph.D. program in Comparative Biology and the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)Earth Science residency program. Visit amnh.org for more information.

The American Museum of Natural History is a leading provider of engaging scientific content to partners around the world. Each year, the American Museum of Natural History produces a variety of traveling exhibitions, immersive planetarium shows, and other content drawn from the Museum’s vast scientific expertise and collections. More than 250 venues in 44 countries have presented Museum-produced content to educate, entertain, and inspire visitors of all ages, in more than 39 countries on six continents.