AMNH Exhibitions Lab

Due to the strong relationship between the lab and the museum's extensive research and curation wing, the department has been among the first to introduce brand new topics to the public.

They have produced, among others, the first exhibits to discuss Darwinian evolution,[1] human-induced climate change[2] and the Mesozoic mass extinction via asteroid.

Notable among them is the Akeley Hall of African Mammals which opened in 1936, at a time before widespread color photography.

It took more than a decade to create the scenes depicted in the hall which includes a 432 square foot (40 m²) diorama of the American bison.

In 1997 museum artists and scientists traveled to the Central African Republic to collect samples and photographs for the construction of a 3,000 square foot (300 m2) recreation of a tropical West African rainforest, the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest diorama in the Hall of Biodiversity.

The Exhibition Department's headquarters is located on approximately 80th Street in Manhattan .
The "wall of life" is a three-dimensional cladogram consisting of over five hundred life-sized models.
A forced perspective diorama in the Hall of Asian Peoples made by George F. Campbell M.R.I.N.A.
The 2003 mammal revitalization project reconstructed the colobus monkey diorama.
The Akeley Hall of African Mammals showcases the museum's famed taxidermy .
The museum's iconic blue whale was completed by the lab in 2003.
Akeley's Mountain Gorilla Diorama is especially lauded for its realism.