The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a rich history of explaining evolution through its displays and educational programs. For much of this history, there has been a permanent hall dedicated to human evolution and its related disciplines. Different versions of these halls have informed tens of millions of visitors, and today’s offering is one of the world’s newest, opened in 2007 and named the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. The hall’s design is radical in that it starts by giving molecular genetics and the fossil record equal billing and thus provides the visitor with two independent but highly complementary lines of evidence for our own evolution. Other parts of the hall are innovative in that they stress taxonomic diversity in the fossil record as much as the more traditional chronological “story” of human evolution that is usually found in museum exhibits. The hall is also unique in that it incorporates a fully operational teaching laboratory within its architectural footprint, which provides educators with the chance to seamlessly integrate hands-on lab sessions and the surrounding exhibits as teaching aids.
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机译：纽约的美国自然历史博物馆拥有丰富的历史，可以通过其展示和教育计划来解释进化。在这段历史的大部分时间里，都有一个常设大厅专门讨论人类进化及其相关学科。这些大厅的不同版本吸引了数千万游客，今天的展览是世界上最新的展览之一，于2007年开放，并命名为Anne and Bernard Spitzer人类起源大厅。大厅的设计是激进的，因为它首先为分子遗传学和化石记录提供相等的费用，从而为游客提供了两条独立但高度互补的证据来证明我们的进化。展馆的其他部分具有创新性，因为它们强调化石记录中的分类学多样性，就像在博物馆的展览品中发现的人类进化的更传统的按时间顺序的“故事”一样。大厅的独特之处在于，它在其建筑足迹内整合了一个全面运作的教学实验室，这为教育工作者提供了将动手实验室课程和周围的展览品无缝整合为教学手段的机会。
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