The Museum of Natural History is a location that Holden visits during his solo trek through New York City. He comments on how he loves that the exhibits never change and are "frozen" in time. His joy of the exhibits is juxtaposed with his sadness that every time he returns to the museum, he has changed himself. The museum allows Holden to reiterate his consuming fear of change and serves as a symbol for his ideal world where everything stays the same and innocence is retained.
"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move"
"Then a funny thing happened. When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks. It just didn't appeal to me--and here I'd walked through the whole goddam park and looked forward to it and all"
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