The American Museum of Natural History holds a press conference on April 13 before unveiling its "World's Largest Dinosaurs" exhibition on April 16 (CHEN WEN)

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City is going to unveil a major exhibition on the world's largest dinosaurs on April 16.

The exhibition "gives center stage to some of the most fascinating and stupendously large dinosaurs that ever walked the Earth, in all their biological complexity and significance," said Ellen V. Futter, President of the AMNH.

According to a press release from the AMNH, the exhibition will focus on sauropods, a type of dinosaur that could grow to more than 150 feet in length. The exhibition will explain how these super-sized dinosaurs lived during the Late Jurassic period.

The AMNH, founded in 1869, has the world's largest vertebrate fossil collection. It now houses 46 permanent exhibition halls, state-of-the-art research laboratories, one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere and a permanent collection of over 32 million specimens and cultural artifacts.

The "World's Largest Dinosaurs" show will last until January 2, 2012.

(Reporting from New York)