Concrete caves and extravagant butterflies in the American Museum of Natural History’s extension | Financial Times
Before her new bit of the building was slotted in, the museum was a little like the assault course devised by the entomologists for those ants: a challenging series of dead ends, dingy connecting links populated by dusty vitrines and odd corridors. A few hours before the extension opened, I got lost at Molluscs of New York and had to walk through the African megafauna dioramas three times to find the Plains Indians who were placed, disconcertingly, beside the primates. Now it feels as if everything is connected, which is precisely the point of the museum.