I love these letters sent to the American Museum of Natural History by wannabe space explorers from the 1950s. They are so wonderfully naive and full of hope, some of them really funny, others quite sad in hindsight.
One of the things I loved about the AMNH’s Beyond Planet Earth exhibition was a seemingly gimmicky, but quite surprising device: a machine that allows you to sniff what the Moon smells like! It was… weird.
The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet’s past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customisable museum tours and exhibit information, is nothing less than state of the art.
