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Dark Universe was created by the American Museum of Natural History, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, and the Hayden Planetarium. Made possible through the generous sponsorship of Accenture. The Museum also gratefully acknowledges major funding from the Charles Hayden Foundation. Presented with special thanks to NASA and the National Science Foundation. Dark Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan.
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Columbus Avenue Earth and Space Halls Fossil Halls
Animal Halls
Environment Halls
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Black Hole Theater
Museum Food Court Shop for Cullman Earth and Hall of the Space Universe
School Lunchrooms
Rose Center for Earth and Space
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Central Park West West 81st Street
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Rose Center for for Center Rose First Floor Earth and Space Cosmic Pathway Heilbrunn Parking Garage Parking of Planet Earth Gottesman Hall
Garage Garage Entrance / Exit Entrance / Exit Entrance Show Space
Starlight Café
Hayden Hayden Boarding Planetarium
Group School Check-In Weston Pavilion Security Office
Avenue American Mammals LeFrak Columbus Theater Entrance / Exit Entrance Hall of North Memorial Hall Central Park West Park Central Bernard Family Family Bernard Columbus Avenue Columbus Central Park West West Park Central Small Mammals Entrance / Exit Entrance Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Theodore Temporary Exhibition Temporary
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Blum Room Lecture Lecture Dana Education Wing
Linder Milstein Gallery 77 Theater Family Hall Family Theater of Life Ocean Kaufmann Kaufmann
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State State Hall of North Grand Grand Hall of Spitzer Spitzer Gallery Forests Origins Human Warburg
New York York New American Environment Meteorites Ross Hall of Ross One Café on Café Room Discovery Discovery
Sackler Laboratory
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South AmericanPeoples Dana Education Wing Calder Asian Mammals African Peoples People Center Lab Leonhardt
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Terrace Entrance /Exit (Open Seasonally) Classroom Rose Center Scales of the Universe Scales of Second Floor Ross Terrace
Earth andSpace Earth Rose Center for Big Bang Theater Hayden Temporary Exhibition Cosmic Pathway Heilbrunn Shop Cosmic
Temporary Exhibitions Human andCulture Halls Environment Halls Animal Halls Fossil Halls andSpace Halls Earth West 81st Street 81st West 3 Third Floor Earth and Space Halls
Columbus Avenue Fossil Halls Animal Halls
Environment Halls
Human and Culture Halls Margaret Mead Temporary Exhibitions Hall of Pacific Peoples
Plains Indians
Eastern Woodlands Indians West Street 81st
Primates Sanford Hall New York State of North American Birds Mammals West 77th Street West
New York City Birds
¡Cuba! Shop
Akeley Hall of African Mammals Gallery 3 Temporary Exhibition
Reptiles and Amphibians
Central Park West 4 Fourth Floor Earth and Space Halls
Columbus Avenue Fossil Halls Animal Halls
Environment Halls
Human and Culture Halls
Temporary Exhibitions
Research Library
The Titanosaur West Street 81st
Wallach Orientation Vertebrate Origins Center West 77th Street West
Mummies Shop
LeFrak Family Café on Four Gallery
Milstein Temporary Saurischian Hall of Exhibition Dinosaurs Advanced Mammals Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives
Audubon Gallery Primitive Ornithischian Koch Dinosaur Wing Mammals Dinosaurs
Astor Dino Turret Store
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