This exhibition features more than 20 sets of large-format images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.

Travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, in this Space Show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Creatures of Light introduces visitors to the astonishing variety of bioluminescent organisms on Earth.

Follow Sir David Attenborough as he sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs—a group of reptiles that ruled the skies about 220 million years ago and, after insects, were the first animals to fly. Attenborough works with scientists and engineers to try and understand how and why pterosaurs flew, traveling to Big Bend National Park in Texas, Lyme Regis in the United Kingdom, and China’s remote Liaoning Province to get answers. The audience will be immersed in the awe-inspiring world of the pterosaur and experience the enormous challenges these creatures faced to survive, let alone flourish, in prehistoric skies. 

Flying Monsters is a National Geographic film.

Witness the arresting beauty and surprising diversity of moths in a presentation of more than 30 large-format prints by Canadian photographer Jim des Rivières. 

Follow trainers on early-morning fitness walks through the Museum before it opens to the public, enjoying a quiet visit and views of favorite dioramas and displays.

Join a guide for an insider’s introduction to all that the Museum has to offer.

Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series.

In Alien Planets, you will create a realistic exoplanet while learning about planets in our solar system and exploring new discoveries about other planetary systems.

Students in this course will discuss the genetics of human diversity and how the illnesses affecting certain populations are a combination of nature (genetics, geography) and nurture (environment).

This class will introduce and discuss the physical laws and principles that make the Universe what it is, from gravity to electromagnetism to quantum mechanics.

Explore how food, nutrition, taste and culture intersect as we examine the interdisciplinary field of the anthropology of food.

Meet Atka, an Arctic gray wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in South Salem, New York, on his visit to the Museum.

Break out your sleeping bags and experience the Museum as never before. 

Change lives. Teach science. That is the call of action for the Museum’s new Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program, the first urban teacher residency program offered by a museum.

This course explores the heavens above as viewed from New York City.  We will cover the basics of amateur astronomy using planetariums and the night sky to practice naked-eye and binocular observation.