NEW YORK — A new ice age is coming to the American Museum of Natural History.

The museum is opening a 150-foot by 80-foot outdoor ice skating rink.

The rink will have synthetic ice; skaters will share it with a 17-foot-tall sculpture of a polar bear.

Information about polar bears, the polar regions and suggestions for being environmentally conscious will be placed around the rink.

It will be open to the public from Nov. 22 through Feb. 28.

— From wire reports