Travel back to a time when giants roamed the Earth! Walk in the shoes of a paleontologist to investigate some of the largest animals to ever inhabit our planet.

Experience the splendor of live butterflies in the Museum's indoor tropical rainforest. Interact with these fascinating insects up close to explore how they eat, grow, and trick hungry predators.

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.

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

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

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.

Why do some scientists call birds living dinosaurs? How much did the biggest dinosaurs have to eat to survive? How did mother dinosaurs raise their babies?

Explore the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, learn about DNA, examine casts of hominid fossils—and have fun doing it! 

In this unique program, learn to navigate our solar system, galaxy, and beyond using Digital Universe, the Museum’s cutting-edge, three-dimensional, scientifically accurate map of the cosmos.

This workshop will introduce K-12 teachers to the Museum’s newest exhibition, Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture. Teachers will engage with Museum educators, and scientists to strengthen their understanding about the science of food, resource sustainability, and health.