The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a private natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
It is in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex is huge and there is so much to see it comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.

The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time.

The museum occupies more than 2×106 sq ft (190,000 m2). Has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.

I have shared other posts from my visit there and do recommend if your visiting the city to checkout the museum, but as I said at the start this post is about one small exhibit there of butterflies.

NOw I am no expert on Butterflies so cannot say what type they are but I thought they were beautiful

These photos were taken with my iphone, I did have my camera with me, but the butterfly enclosure was so humid my camera lens was all fogged up so I couldn't get shots with it

even with my camera lens and glasses getting all foggy in the butterfly enclosure I still enjoyed seeing them

And a last one to finish off the post.

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And that’s all folks

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