Awesome surprise! While wandering through the AMNH we stumbled upon one of the coolest objects of all time: a golden tapestry woven from the silk produced by one million spiders!
I first read about it on this Wired article. Check it out:
To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring dozens of spider handlers to collect wild arachnids and carefully harness them to the silk-extraction machine. “We had to find people who were willing to work with spiders,” Godley said, “because they bite.”
The color was incredible!