Best History Museums in Manhattan

In this category we list two Manhattan history museums, American Museum of Natural History and Madame Tussauds New York. Forty-five exhibition halls of dinosaurs, a blue whale and the cosmos, right beside Central Park, one of the world's great natural-history museums.

Pose with 200-plus lifelike wax stars, from Taylor Swift to the Ghostbusters, in Times Square.

Admission to American Museum of Natural History starts at $37 per person. American Museum of Natural History is pitched at all ages. Admission to Madame Tussauds New York starts at $29 per person. Madame Tussauds New York is pitched at all ages.

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