<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> June 24, 1976 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated NYCL </Th> <Td> August 24, 1967 </Td> </Tr> <P> The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library . The museum collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies more than 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m). The museum has a full - time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually . </P> <P> The one mission statement of the American Museum of Natural History is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate--through scientific research and education--knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe ." </P>

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