Gilder Center: Discovering the Secrets of Modern Science

The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869, is one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. This year the Museum unveiled developing details of the scientific and educational spaces, programs and exhibits that will be housed in the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation (Gilder Center). Glass-walled Collections Core, Immersive Invisible Worlds Theater, next-generation learning labs, and an Insectarium will bring new depth to visitor experience.

At a time of unprecedented scientific advancement that informs global and individual decisions about the environment, human health, workplace preparedness, and global competitiveness, the Gilder Center will reveal modern science to visitors of all ages through immersive exhibition techniques and innovative educational programming underpinned by the Museum’s scientific research and its superb collections of more than 33 million specimens and artifacts, amassed from more than 145 years of exploration. The Gilder Center will also expand the presentation of the diversity of life on Earth into the vital area of insects, which the Museum has never before publicly addressed with such vibrancy and depth.

COLLECTIONS CORE

Just as the Museum’s natural history collections reside at the heart of the institution’s work in science and education, they will be at the physical core of the Gilder Center. The 21,000-square-foot, glass-walled Collections Core will be both a critical resource and a spectacular feature of the Gilder Center, revealing the specimens and artifacts that scientists use to investigate and answer fundamental questions, identify new species, and formulate new research questions and directions.

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