美国自然史博物馆（American Museum of Natural History）位于美国纽约曼哈顿上西区（Upper West Side），是专注于天文学、地球科学、人类学、古生物学、生物学等的博物馆。建馆于1869年，现有馆员超过1200人，每年承办超过100场特别展览。该馆的主要收藏项目包括于各大洲哺乳动物的收集，以及人类学的馆藏。其人类起源馆（Hall of Human Origin）是全美唯一此领域的专项展览，展示了人类进化过程中的各个阶段。除了展览各种展品外，这家博物馆还有各种培养中学生探索科学的兴趣的教育活动，还会给教师们提供培训。美国自然史博物馆是世界上浏览人数最多的博物馆之一，2010年时有超过500万人参观过这个博物馆。

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, humans, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m). The museum has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.