Pictures show how New York's iconic Museum of Natural History has been transformed into a COVID-19 vaccine site https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/pictures-show-how-new-yorkaposs-iconic-museum-of-natural-history-has-been-transformed-into-a-covid-19-vaccine-site/slidelist/82277762.cms 2021-04-27T20:24:48+05:30 2021-04-27T19:48:15+05:30 Pictures show how New York's iconic Museum of Natural History has been transformed into a COVID-19 vaccine site Apr 27, 2021, 20:24 IST
New Yorkers can get their COVID-19 vaccine on the bottom floor of the museum's Hall of Ocean Life.Joey Hadden/Insider
The American Museum of Natural History in New York became a COVID-19 vaccination site on April 23. New York City residents can marvel at ocean life exhibits while they get vaccinated. People receive their shots under the enormous, suspended, big blue whale model.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Inside the American Museum of Natural History, New Yorkers can marvel at ocean life while they get their COVID-19 vaccine. Source: Insider
The museum's Hall of Ocean Life transformed.
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The museum's Hall of Ocean Life, where the iconic big blue whale hangs, has been transformed into a walk-in vaccine site for New York City residents. Source: Insider
Outside the museum, signs direct people to the vaccine site.
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To find the vaccine site, New Yorkers can enter the museum via the subway entrance on Central Park West and 79th Street, where staff directs people to the Hall of Ocean Life on the first floor. Source: American Museum of Natural History
New Yorkers wait for vaccinations at the museum.
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The site opened on April 23 to all New Yorkers, and vaccinations come with a general admission museum voucher for up to four people. Source: Insider
The bottom floor of the Hall of Ocean Life.
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Because it's a vaccination site, the lower level of the Hall of Ocean Life is closed to museum guests. Because it's a vaccination site, the lower level of the Hall of Ocean Life is closed to museum guests.
The big blue whale's bandaid is 6 feet long and 2 feet wide.
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If you look closely at the 94-foot whale suspended high up in the center of the hall, you'll see a 6-foot long bandaid indicating that she has been vaccinated as well. Source: Insider
The whale obstructs a view of the vaccination site.
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Built in the 1960s, the big blue whale is a replica of the largest animal known to humans. The model itself is 21,000 pounds of foam and fiberglass. Source: American Museum of Natural History , Insider
A close-up of the site.
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The site seemed to operate like many others, with tiny makeshift rooms for getting the shot and arrows directing guests. The site seemed to operate like many others, with tiny makeshift rooms for getting the shot and arrows directing guests.
The vaccine site takes up the whole bottom floor.
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But the views are like no other. As New Yorkers wind around the vaccine site ... But the views are like no other. As New Yorkers wind around the vaccine site ...
People walk by and wait next to the dolphin and tuna diorama.
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... they can also observe and admire the hall's many massive exhibits of ocean life, from a dolphin and tuna diorama ... Source: American Museum of Natural History
A close-up of the site.
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People sitting in rows of socially distanced seats could take in the museum's Bahamian coral reef diorama. People sitting in rows of socially distanced seats could take in the museum's Bahamian coral reef diorama.
People take photos after getting shots.
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And after getting their shots, New Yorkers can take their photo with a masked dinosaur skull. And after getting their shots, New Yorkers can take their photo with a masked dinosaur skull.
The big blue whale vaccine site in New York City.
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The museum is one of several iconic landmarks to become a vaccine site. Source: Insider
Mayor Bill de Blasio next to Ellen Futter at the April 23 press conference.
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Mayor Bill DeBlasio said that the vaccination site was an example of how NYC found "a way to fight back that's smart and creative and exciting and vibrant. That's what we do in this city," he said. Mayor Bill DeBlasio said that the vaccination site was an example of how NYC found "a way to fight back that's smart and creative and exciting and vibrant. That's what we do in this city," he said.
Neil deGrasse Tyson at the April 23 press conference.
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Director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson said the site is also an example of how humans should "band together" through extreme times. Director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson said the site is also an example of how humans should "band together" through extreme times.
A close-up of the site.
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He called the group effort of New Yorkers, medical workers, and museum staff "an example of what the nation and world should have been doing from the very beginning." He called the group effort of New Yorkers, medical workers, and museum staff "an example of what the nation and world should have been doing from the very beginning."
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