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Contents

Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition

COLIN DAVEY

Foreword

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Foreword

KERMIT ROOSEVELT III

How This Book Came to Be Written

COLIN DAVEY

Preface

THOMAS A. LESSER

Introduction

Part I: The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

1 Manhattan Square

2 The Master Plan and the Bickmore Wing

3 The Jesup Years (1881–1908) and the Seventy-Seventh Street Façade

4 Robert Peary, the Journey to the North Pole, and the Cape York Meteorites

5 The Osborn Years (1908–1933)

6 The Akeley African Hall: From the Elephant in the Room to the Seven-Hundred-Pound Gorilla

7 The Evolution of the Dinosaur Exhibits

8 The Years 1936 to 1999

Part II: The Heavens in the Attic

9 From the Beginning of Time to October 2, 1935

10 Robert Moses and the Norman Bel Geddes Report

11 The Golden Age of Spaceflight and the Hayden Planetarium

12 A Visit to the Original Hayden Planetarium

13 The Rose Center for Earth and Space

Epilogue: The Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index