#116 American Museum of Natural History

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2010

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Millions of years of space rocks, fossils, artifacts and specimens are housed in New York's world famous natural history complex on the Upper West Side. But few know the whole story about the museum itself. Residents of New York tried a few times to establish a legitimate natural history venue in the city, including an aborted plan for a Central Park dinosaur pavilion. With the American Museum of Natural History, the city had a premier institution that sent expeditions to the four corners of the earth. Tune in to hear the stories of some of the museum's most treasured artifacts and the origins of its collection. And find out the tragic tale of Minik the Eskimo, a boy subject by museum directors to bizarre and cruel lie. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 116, the American Museum of Natural History.
0:04.9	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:06.4	Hey.
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0:20.8	Hello and welcome to The Bowry Boys, I'm Tom Myers.
0:24.0	And I'm Greg Young.
0:25.3	This week's episode, we're going to talk about one of New York's most treasured public institutions,
0:31.3	the American Museum of Natural History that's located on the Upper West Side,
0:35.9	right off of Central Park between 77th and 81st Street.
0:39.9	The museum has been around for 130, 140 years, though it seems like it's getting a fresh dose
0:46.1	of popularity due in large part to its appearance in a couple of blockbuster films.
0:51.4	Including, you know, the museum, which is set there, though, and it includes things that are
0:57.3	in the museum, though, of course, it wasn't filmed there in the interior in that movie,
1:00.9	just makes a mess of it.
1:02.4	But New York's Natural History Museum is one of the world's most renowned
1:06.0	has actually been at the heart of all the natural sciences since its inception in the 1860s.
1:12.3	And I would dare to say that in telling the history of the museum, it's more than just talking
1:17.2	about how the structure was built or how the people got together to pass a charter.
1:21.6	But it's also about telling the story of how different collections were even collected and
1:27.5	acquired in the first place. It's a story of exploration and story of science.
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