American Natural History Museum and MJ the Musical

The American Museum of Natural History was massive - I did as much as I could in a day, including a couple science shows. I was particularly impressed by their dinosaur collections. Who doesn't like learning new dinosaur facts?! There was a beautiful but sad exhibit on extinct and endangered insects - photographs blown up to wall size that took around a month each to create. And a special sharks exhibit with more shark facts to learn. The day rounded off with a Broadway show - MJ (Michael Jackson) the Musical - with amazing dancing, singing, and music. The amount of energy coming off the stage was palpable.

Snow leftovers from yesterday

Experienced NYers have snow booties for their dogs!

Special "Sharks" exhibit was interesting

More shark facts to learn!

Mineral room

Mineral room

Mineral room

Patagotitan mayorum – a dinosaur from the titanosaurus group – needed a long room to hold it

Nice exhibit by photographer Levon Biss called Extinct & Endangered – it took around 4 weeks for each of these intricate photographs of insects

Xerces Blue Butterfly - from Extinct & Endangered

Mount Hermon June Beetle - from Extinct & Endangered

Butterflies from Extinct & Endangered

For those of us who insist on Brontosaurus

Track examples

Dinosaur speed

Dinosaur with head and neck curved back – apparently this happened post-death when neck muscles contracted

T-Rex

Some familiar NZ Māori exhibits

And a Broadway show to end the night - MJ (Michael Jackson) the Musical. Amazing dancing, singing, and music.