Over the weekend, a group of J-1 interns with the Cross Cultural Internship Program (CCIP, www.theccip.com) visited the American Museum of Natural History. The museum, located on the picturesque Upper West Side of Manhattan, draws in millions of visitors from all over the world every year.

While visiting one of the largest natural history museums in the world, the interns saw many interesting exhibits. Favorites for the group included halls dedicated to biodiversity, North American forests, and the oceans. The group had spent the morning volunteering at Cunningham Park in Queens before traveling by subway to the museum.

All group activities for CCIP are led and arranged by activity coordinators. One of the three coordinators for the museum visit was Sherry. She said, "the American Museum of Natural History can't be explored in just one day. So far, my favorite exhibition is the one in Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. It's filled with interactive displays and tons of exhibits on the Earth and it's geological structures dating back tens of thousands of years ago."

"All the diagrams and explanations are helpful and it reminded me of the days I took geography when I was younger. You can feel the different textures of rocks here and how they are different from each other," she added.

Sherry studies at Nanyang Technological University. She interns at Society of Voice Arts‎ (SOVAS) int his summer.

Another student leader, Kimmy from City University of Hong Kong commented, " The museum is stunning with all the sculptures that shown as an example to illustrate the history. It is an excellent example of teaching the young generation of doing things in a more creative way and the way to attract people."