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.

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. 

Mingle with up to 500 live, free-flying tropical butterflies.

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.

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.

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).

Flight of the Butterflies takes viewers on the epic 3,000-mile journey traveled every fall by half a billion Monarch butterflies!

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.

Courses for NYC high school students interested in the sciences offered late February through mid-April 2013.

Train to be a Museum forest ranger! In these hands-on workshops, explore Earth’s majestic forests, learn to identify different species of trees, understand the importance of forests to our planet’s health, and discover how we can protect these precious resources.

This five-session creative writing class at the Museum, taught by Hannah Tinti, will focus on the natural world, with each session held in a different gallery.

Catch a glimpse of owls, songbirds, and woodpeckers in the woods, seed-eating birds in the fields, and multiple species of ducks and gulls in the lakes as ornithologist Paul Sweet guides you through three Central Park habitats to observe the varied bird species of New York City

Join a guide for a tour of the Museum that highlights connections to Theodore Roosevelt, the Conservation President.

Join astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker as he tells the story of how the evidence for the so-called “Lambda-Cold Dark Matter” model of cosmology has been gathered by generations of scientists.

Join Harold Boeschenstein Director Tom Baione and Director of Darwin Manuscripts Project David Kohn to view items from our Rare Book collections and learn about the ongoing project to make original source Darwin material available to the online world.

Who are we, and where do we come from? Take a fascinating journey through human evolution and learn about our relatives, from early primates to the first Homo sapiens to walk the Earth.

Who are we, and where do we come from? Take a fascinating journey through human evolution and learn about our relatives, from early primates to the first Homo sapiens to walk the Earth.

Ants, oak trees, elephants, bacteria: our planet teems with an incredible diversity of life. But is there life beyond Earth? Learn how scientists look for clues that could lead to the discovery of life on other planets.

Join a guide for an insider’s introduction to all that the Museum has to offer, from world-famous habitat dioramas to the spectacular Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The Members-only tour meets in the Portrait Room on the second floor. 

Ants, oak trees, elephants, bacteria: our planet teems with an incredible diversity of life. But is there life beyond Earth? Learn how scientists look for clues that could lead to the discovery of life on other planets.