Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium

The Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium is a live exhibition space inside the American Museum of Natural History, where insects and other small invertebrates are presented as living subjects rather than specimens. Visitors move through habitats that foreground behavior, life cycles, and the ecological work these animals do, from pollination to decomposition. In a city where nature is often framed as distant, the Insectarium makes urban biodiversity legible at close range. Its quiet, clinical staging can feel more honest than theatrical, and that restraint suits the subject.