May 24, 2012
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Highway of an Empire: The Great Inca Road
Central Park West at 79th Street
(between 77th and 81st Streets)
New York, NY 10024
Tel: (212) 769-5200
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Mon – Sun: 10 am – 5:45 pmClosed Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The vast Inca Empire owed its reach and power to this extensive and intricate network of roads. Linking forts, religious sites, and administrative centers from the Pacific coast to the Amazonian rainforest, the Inca roads allowed armies and imperial officials to conquer and then control the largest empire in the Americas.
The photographs reveal the diversity of this road system—from broad paved highways to woven suspension bridges to beaten tracks through barren desert—and of the landscape through which it travels. Other highlights include round terraces of Moray; a tropical forest located along the Amazon tributary near the present-day border between Peru and Bolivia; Sondor, a terraced knoll that may have been used for religious rituals; the Huascarán peak in the Cordillera Blanca, the highest in Peru and one of the highest in the Andes; Laguna de Los Condores, where in 1996 a local worker discovered a cache of some 200 mummy bundles tucked in a cliff side high above a lake; Andeans gathering a potato crop; and maps of the road network.
Visitors interested in learning more about the subjects featured in Highway of An Empire can also visit the museum’s Hall of South American Peoples.
- Directions: Subway: B, C to 81st Street - Museum of Natural History
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American Museum of Natural HistoryThe largest natural history museum in the world has a mission commensurately monumental in scope. Permanent hall exhibitions focus on dinosaurs, mammals, ocean life, geology and more. The Rose Center for Earth and Space explores the entire universe.
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Ongoing Dinosaurs, meteorites and gems, mammals preserved in realistic dioramas, ocean life and exhibition halls that explore the world’s traditional cultures are just some of the scores of subjects on view 363 days a year.
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Sat, Oct 8, 2011 – Sun, May 27, 2012 The Butterfly Conservatory is a re-creation of a tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies.
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Ongoing In Passport to the Universe, see close views of star fields and planets and experience an exhilarating flight into the Orion Nebula, out of our galaxy and deep into intergalactic space. The Search for Life: Are We Alone? asks if there are life forms beyond planet Earth.