American Museum of Natural History
Twenty-one connected buildings on the Upper West Side, across the road from Central Park, holding some 32 million specimens of fossils, animals, meteorites, minerals and human cultures. Its halls include a planetarium, and its dinosaur skeletons are among the most famous anywhere.
- Where
- New York, New York, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 40.7808, -73.9744
Get the American Museum of Natural History stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at American Museum of Natural History. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your New York volume with your photos and a note.
Near American Museum of Natural History
Central Park 0.7 km
The first landscaped park in the United States, 341 hectares of lawns, lakes and woodland laid out between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Some 42 million visits a year make it the most visited urban park in the country.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 0.9 km
The largest art museum in the Americas, on Fifth Avenue at the edge of Central Park, with collections running from ancient Egypt to the present day. With more than 5.7 million visitors in 2025, it was the most visited museum in the United States.
Guggenheim Museum 1.3 km
Frank Lloyd Wright's white spiral on Fifth Avenue, where a single ramp coils up around a skylit rotunda and the paintings hang along the way. The collection covers Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art, and the museum began in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.
Museum of Modern Art 2.2 km
A Midtown museum on 53rd Street whose collection follows art from the late 19th century to now: more than 200,000 works across painting, sculpture, design, photography and film. Few institutions have done as much to shape how modern art, European modern art above all, came to be understood.
St. Patrick's Cathedral 2.5 km
The largest Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral in North America, filling a whole block of Fifth Avenue opposite Rockefeller Center. James Renwick Jr. designed it, and it is both a parish church and the seat of the Archbishop of New York.
Rockefeller Center 2.5 km
A complex of 19 commercial buildings in Midtown, its 14 original Art Deco towers commissioned by the Rockefeller family around a sunken plaza. In winter the plaza becomes a skating rink beneath a giant Christmas tree, and the Top of the Rock deck looks straight up Central Park.
Times Square 2.8 km
A bowtie-shaped plaza where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street, lit day and night by giant digital billboards. It is the hub of the Theater District, where most Broadway theatres stand, and one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world.
Intrepid Museum 2.8 km
A museum aboard the USS Intrepid, a Second World War aircraft carrier moored at Pier 86 on the Hudson. Aircraft line its flight deck, the Space Shuttle Enterprise sits in a pavilion on board, and a Concorde and the submarine Growler wait alongside.
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Questions
Where is American Museum of Natural History?
American Museum of Natural History is in New York, New York, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Central Park (0.7 km), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (0.9 km), Guggenheim Museum (1.3 km).
How do I get the American Museum of Natural History stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at American Museum of Natural History and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your New York volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to American Museum of Natural History before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your New York volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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