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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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. 

Back by popular demand, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s immersive dome installation Coral: Rekindling Venus is returning to the Museum for a limited engagement, co-presented by the Sundance Film Festival. Corals come to life in Wallworth’s beautiful exploration of coral reef ecosystems and their struggles to handle environmental stresses including rising ocean temperatures.

Take a culinary journey across the globe with Chef Floyd Cardoz, Bravo’s season 3 Top Chef Master and executive chef of North End Grill.

Go behind the scenes to explore how geologists use the mineralogy and chemical composition of rocks from planetary bodies, lunar bodies, and asteroids to understand planet formation.

Back by popular demand, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s immersive dome installation Coral: Rekindling Venus is returning to the Museum for a limited engagement, co-presented by the Sundance Film Festival. Corals come to life in Wallworth’s beautiful exploration of coral reef ecosystems and their struggles to handle environmental stresses including rising ocean temperatures.

Back by popular demand, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s immersive dome installation Coral: Rekindling Venus is returning to the Museum for a limited engagement, co-presented by the Sundance Film Festival. Corals come to life in Wallworth’s beautiful exploration of coral reef ecosystems and their struggles to handle environmental stresses including rising ocean temperatures.

Back by popular demand, Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s immersive dome installation Coral: Rekindling Venus is returning to the Museum for a limited engagement, co-presented by the Sundance Film Festival. Corals come to life in Wallworth’s beautiful exploration of coral reef ecosystems and their struggles to handle environmental stresses including rising ocean temperatures.