Jan 17 Afternoon at the NYC Natural History Museum

 After the Metropolitan Museum of Art it was still raining so we took a cab (again the wait time was about 15 seconds) to the Natural History Museum. The latter is on the other side of Central Park and on a nice day it would be pleasant walk. 

image 1 is in the main entrance room - a dinosaur skeleton is behind Ann 

The Natural History Museum was undergoing some work and a lot of the areas were closed. This was a problem for seeing everything but also a problem for getting around because the Museum is so big and we had to use some round about paths.

image 2 is us in front of one of the great mammal dioramas. 

The museum has many of these and most of them are works of art.  There are some that are about 40 feet across. About 10% or so have been completed in the past two years. 

The third image is Martin with Theodore Roosevelt who was the inspiration for the great mammal dioramas.

I walked around a lot. Ann spent a lot of time in the minerals and gems section,