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American Museum of Natural History
The largest natural history museum in the world has a mission commensurately monumental in scope.
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Ongoing Dominating the Rose Center is the Hayden Sphere, which features the world's largest virtual reality simulator. Weighing four million pounds and measuring 87 feet in diameter, the Hayden Sphere houses the Space Theater-currently showing Journey to the Stars, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg-in its upper half and the Big Bang Theater in its lower hemisphere.
Ongoing The museum's first expedition to search for fossil mammals was launched in 1891. In 1895, before its scientists had found a single dinosaur, the museum opened a full-scale hall of fossil mammals.
Ongoing This IMAX film reveals the secrets of the ocean's depths and sheds some light on the effects of global warming and overfishing on the oceans of the world.