1. This Gooty sapphire spider (Poecilotheria metallica) is one of the many live spiders that will be on view in our upcoming exhibition Spiders Alive!.  Photo by Rod

    This Gooty sapphire spider (Poecilotheria metallica) is one of the many live spiders that will be on view in our upcoming exhibition Spiders Alive!. 

    Photo by Rod

  2. From the archives: Visitors tour the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, 1962.  Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp  © AMNH Library/Image #328663

    From the archives: Visitors tour the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, 1962.

     Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp

     © AMNH Library/Image #328663

  3. An iconic sculpture by the late French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois offers a hint of what’s to come in our upcoming exhibition Spiders Alive!, which opens July 28. This particularly striking bronze specimen called Spider 1 is roughly 4 feet in diameter and now on view in the Grand Gallery on the first floor. Photo: Louise Bourgeois; SPIDER I, 1995; Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece; 50 x 46 x 12 1/4”; 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm; Courtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth; Photo: Allan Finkelman, © Louise Bourgeois Trust

    An iconic sculpture by the late French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois offers a hint of what’s to come in our upcoming exhibition Spiders Alive!, which opens July 28. This particularly striking bronze specimen called Spider 1 is roughly 4 feet in diameter and now on view in the Grand Gallery on the first floor.

    Photo: Louise Bourgeois; SPIDER I, 1995; Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece; 50 x 46 x 12 1/4”; 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm; Courtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth; Photo: Allan Finkelman, © Louise Bourgeois Trust

  4. Something cute for your Friday! A baby bear from our Baby Animals program on April 7 Photo by Craig

    Something cute for your Friday! A baby bear from our Baby Animals program on April 7

    Photo by Craig

  5. Impala Photo by Denis

    Impala

    Photo by Denis

  6. Ornate horned frogs bury themselves in leaves or loose soil and pounce on small animals that blunder by. Rod photographed this one in our current exhibition, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors.  

    Ornate horned frogs bury themselves in leaves or loose soil and pounce on small animals that blunder by. Rod photographed this one in our current exhibition, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors.  

  7. Denis shot this live sugar glider for Extreme Mammals, a special exhibition at the Museum in 2009. This fellow was difficult to capture since sugar gliders are very sensitive to light (meaning shooting had to be done in very low light conditions) and it requires considerable patience to get a picture in which the animal is not blurry.

    Denis shot this live sugar glider for Extreme Mammals, a special exhibition at the Museum in 2009. This fellow was difficult to capture since sugar gliders are very sensitive to light (meaning shooting had to be done in very low light conditions) and it requires considerable patience to get a picture in which the animal is not blurry.