Events this weekend
Through June 24, 2013
Special Exhibit
Picturing Science
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
Journey to the Stars 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
Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large
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
Flight of the Butterflies takes viewers on the epic 3,000-mile journey traveled every fall by half a billion Monarch butterflies!
January 25, 2013 - April 19, 2013
Student Programs
After-School Program
Courses for NYC high school students interested in the sciences offered late February through mid-April 2013.
Registration Closed
Registration Closed
Saturday, March 16
Family and Childrens Programs
Night At The Museum Sleepovers
Break out your sleeping bags and experience the Museum as never before.
Registration Closed
Registration Closed
March 16-17
Courses and Workshops
Brain Awareness Week Workshop: When Brains are on the Same Wavelength
What does it mean to be 'on the same wavelength' with another person? Participants in this workshop will take part in a real brain experiment and help scientists figure out the answer to this question.
Free With Museum Admission
Sunday, March 17
Members Only Programs
Scat and Dung: Scatology for Adults
Join a volunteer guide for a tour of Museum exhibits that will focus on dung, scat, and other bodily waste as well as its uses in agriculture, in products of beauty and allure, and in the treatment of disease, and more.
This tour is not for children.
Members Only
