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Events for May 18, 2013

Through June 24, 2013

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 June 3, 2013

Student Programs

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

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

Friday, May 17

Family and Childrens Programs

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

Sold Out

Saturday, May 18

Members Only Programs

Paul Sweet, collections manager in the Department of Ornithology, leads this expedition to a bird-watching site in Sullivan County, New York.

Members Only

Saturday, May 18

Special Exhibit

Featuring live species, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors illuminates the diversity and evolution of frogs inhabiting the globe.

Saturday, May 18

Members Only Programs

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. 

Members Only