# American Museum of Natural History **Domain:** Natural History / Human Origins / Public Science **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Natural History Museum, London]], [[Human Evolution]], [[Public Mythology]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **American Museum of Natural History** is a research and public-education institution spanning biodiversity, anthropology, paleontology, Earth and planetary science and astrophysics. ## Corpus Context The museum is both archive and receiving theater: it preserves evidence while arranging that evidence into public stories about nature, evolution and humanity’s place in deep time. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [American Museum of Natural History](https://www.amnh.org/)