Graduate school affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The Richard Gilder Graduate School is an educational program of the American Museum of Natural History, one of the world's premier natural history institutions. The school leverages the museum's extensive collections, research facilities, and scientific expertise to provide graduate education. The museum itself is a private 501(c)(3) organization located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, housing 45 permanent exhibition halls and specialized research collections.
Students have access to the museum's 32 million specimens spanning plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. The institution maintains specialized collections for frozen tissue, genomic data, and astrophysical information. The museum occupies over 2.5 million square feet and sponsors more than 120 field expeditions annually, providing extensive research opportunities.
The graduate school benefits from the museum's comprehensive facilities, including the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation (opened 2023), a research library, and multiple specialized exhibition halls. The institution maintains a full-time scientific staff of 225 and provides access to world-class laboratory and field research infrastructure.