Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, includ

Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.

Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color pho

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New Yo