American Museum of Natural History
Paid entryUptown
The natural history museum on Central Park West. Ross’s museum on Friends is fictional, but this is the one it is based on, and How I Met Your Mother held a gala here.
- Time there
- 2–3 hours inside
- Best time
- Weekday at opening
- Cost
- Ticketed; pay what you wish for NY, NJ and CT residents
- Good to know
- The blue whale hangs in the Hall of Ocean Life on the first floor.
Filmed here
How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) · S6E8 “Natural History”
At a museum gala Barney learns he knocked over the blue whale as a boy, and he and Robin try to touch every exhibit.
Friends (1994–2004)
The real museum behind Ross’s fictional “Museum of Prehistoric History”.
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