Belleclaire Hotel

Central Park Tour

In this video, the NYC Traveler begins his tour in Central Park, Manhattan. Located close to Shimmie Horn’s Hotel Belleclaire, the NYC Traveler takes us inside one of the world’s largest museums – the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).

The museum features 28 interconnected buildings which have 45 permanent exhibition halls, a planetarium and a library. There are more than 33 million specimens[5] of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts; only a fraction of these are on show at any one time, occupying over 2,000,000 square feet.

Shimmie Horn

Culture in New York

At the end of last month, a culture program was organized by the Vietnamese Culture & Education (IVCE) in New York.  It was to mark the Asian Lunar New Year and took place at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).  It formed part of the festival program for the Asian New Year.  So for anyone who wants to learn a bit about Asian culture, and find themselves in the area, this would have been quite a unique event.  Participants could enjoy the Ao Dai Fashion show, the Dong Ho Folk Painting & Calligraphy exhibition and more.  And they did since the event attracted more than 500 US and Vietnamese guests.

Belleclaire Hotel, Shimmie Horn

Journey to the Stars Just Minutes Away From the Hotel Belleclaire

Staying at Shimmie Horn’s Hotel Belleclaire? If you are looking for something truly special to do while you’re there, look no farther than three avenue blocks to the east where the Hayden Planetarium beckons. Located at 79th Street and Central Park West, a visit to one of the world’s most famous museums dedicated to the study of space, stars and planetary studies is well worth the while.

The Hayden Planetarium is actually part of the American Museum of Natural History; admission fees include entrance to the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and for a bit extra cost visitors are entitled to visit the AMNH, the Rose Center plus all special exhibitions, IMAX films and the spectacular Hayden Planetarium Space Show.

The featured show, which has been playing at the Hayden Planetarium since July 4th, 2009 is an all new adventure featuring “extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling new Journey to the Stars launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including our own nurturing Sun. Tour familiar stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars. Those who come along for the journey may never see the night sky in the same way again.”

So the next time you are staying at the Hotel Belleclaire at 250 West 77th Street on Broadway, walk east three blocks to Central Park West and travel to the stars.