Visiting New York: National Natural History Museum

We visited New York City in July 2017. We went there with friends and stayed in a house we rented near Central Park. This is the first time the kids were ever in New York, and so our schedule included the most popular attractions:

1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2. The Statue of Liberty

3. The American Museum of Natural History

4. The Guggenheim Museum

5. Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum

6. The Empire State Building

7. Broadway: School of Rock

Our favorite museum when we visited New York City had to be the American Museum of Natural History. My eight year old was particularly excite because it’s the museum featured in the movie “Night at the Museum”. It was an awesome thing to have the CityPass for out visit because we were directed to a special table where the tickets were already printed and they had a system where someone collected the CityPasses and someone else the tickets. It included a time for the special IMAX movie narrated by Neil Degrasse Tyson. It looked like they had printed several showtime tickets for the CityPass holders and you got the next available time as they run out.

We started in the Space section of the museum and spent a long time there, then we moved to rocks before starting on the dinosaurs.

The dinosaur area is pretty extensive because it moves through time and what kind of animals lived in each era. The kids really enjoyed it.

We had lunch outside the museum. We purchased food from one of the food carts and it was the best decision we ever made. I highly recommend eating outside museums instead on inside the museum cafeteria. It’s a little cheaper, but the food it better and you don’t really have to line up for long to get your food.

We came back into the museum after lunch and explored the animal area. We tried to find the are with the little people (like what it’s shown in the Night of the Museum movie), but we failed miserably. We ended the day in the room with the big blue whale hanging from the ceiling and then headed back home. We stayed in a house about half an hour walking from this museum, so we crossed Central Park twice… we really walked a lot.

cheers!