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Events this weekend

Through May 31, 2014

Special Exhibit

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.

Through September 1, 2013

Space Show

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

Through September 29, 2013

Special Exhibit

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

Free With Museum Admission

Through July 7, 2013

IMAX

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

Three Wednesdays, January 9, 16, and 23

Family and Childrens Programs

When you snack on potato chips, or enjoy spicy Thai noodles, do you ever wonder where your food comes from? How it was grown? Explore these questions and more in workshops based on the Museum’s latest special exhibition, Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture

Friday, January 11

Family and Childrens Programs

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

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

Sunday, January 13

Members Only Programs

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

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Members Only