Explorer - AMNH NYC

Download Explorer for a new way to experience the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City! Enjoy behind-the-scenes stories about exhibits, captivating interactives, stimulating quizzes and extra.

THE NEW YORK TIMES on Explorer:

A great assist to anybody seeing the museum for the first or 40th time.”

Lots of fun facts, videos, and teaching instruments for some 70 of probably the most compelling objects on show.

Guides you GPS-like to exhibitions it recommends you see primarily based in your input.

Very helpful if you're trying to discover the bathroom or the cafe.

Explorer Features:

Personalize Your Experience

- Your journey is as a lot as you! Select your interests and Explorer will arrange your listing based on how shut you are to your favourite exhibits.

Test Your Knowledge

- Uncover evolutionary relationships between species by testing your understanding of how mammals are associated, within the Tree of Life featured experience.

Purchase Tickets and Skip the Ticket Line

- Purchase tickets in Explorer and skip the road. Already have tickets? Link them to Explorer utilizing your order ID.

Find Out More About the Museum’s Exhibits

- Explore superb worlds and unlock the secrets of the Museum from wherever – residence or inside the Museum! View iconic exhibits from the Museum’s world-famous halls.

- Discover new reveals, go behind the scenes, and dive deeper with movies, quizzes, and more.

Share Your Experience

- Share highlights from your go to on Facebook, Twitter, and more.

- Take a selfie and share your adventures on social media.

Get Turn-by-Turn Directions Using Beacon Technology

- Visiting the Museum? Explorer offers turn-by-turn directions from any location, from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs, plus the shortest path to restrooms, shops, cafes, and exits.

How does Explorer know where you are? The Museum has placed more than seven hundred Bluetooth beacons all through its forty five everlasting halls. These tiny beacons give off signals that your phone can detect (when Bluetooth is enabled). Your phone calculates your place based on detecting three of those beacons simultaneously. This triangulation just isn't at all times excellent, particularly in sure areas like giant, multi-level halls, meandering walkways, or stairwells. Your phone should be ready to detect the corridor that you're in and supply turn-by-turn directions, however sometimes the “blue dot” is not precisely in the right place. In some uncommon circumstances it will even be lacking. Moving to another space and ready a few moments will often repair the difficulty.

The Museum’s free AMNH-Guest Wi-Fi also varies in strength throughout the advanced. Certain materials and huge reveals (i.e. the Blue Whale) either take in or mirror the radio indicators used by Wi-Fi, additional complicating this expertise. If you experience problem connecting to Wi-Fi in a selected a part of the Museum, you can normally fix the difficulty by moving a short distance away.

NOTE: Bluetooth have to be turned on for full functionality. Continued use of GPS running within the background can dramatically lower battery life.

Let us understand how the app is working and the way we will improve your Museum expertise by sending us your feedback to [email protected]

*Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies