If you love things that sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow, glow in the dark, and seem to defy any definition of the term rock, you’ve got to visit the new Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
December 18, 2020
The much-awaited reopening of the American Museum of Natural History’s gem hall will have to wait a little longer.
The New York City museum had planned to open the redesigned Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals on February 17, 2021. But because of the current rise in COVID-19 cases, the reopening is now being moved to later in the spring. The museum will announce a specific date later in the year.
This is the second time the gem and mineral halls’ reopening has been postponed. They were originally set to reopen in fall 2020.
The museum’s gem and mineral halls first opened in 1976, as the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals and Morgan Memorial Gem Hall, but they have been closed for the last three years while the museum remodeled and refurbished them even as some lamented the loss of their “’70s vibe.”