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If you are coming to the Museum on Saturday, May 25, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.

Today at the Museum

February 19

Student Programs

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.

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

February 19

Student Programs

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.

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

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 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!

January 25, 2013 - April 19, 2013

Student Programs

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

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

Five Tuesdays, February 5-March 5

Courses and Workshops

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.

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Monday - Friday, February 18 - 22

Family and Childrens Programs

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?

Monday - Friday, February 18 - 22

Family and Childrens Programs

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

Monday - Friday, February 18 - 22 (Final Presentations on February 22)

After Hours Programs

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.

Feb. 19, 2013

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.

Registration Closed

Registration Closed

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 30

After Hours Programs

Join a riveting discussion with explorers and scientists who are using daring new tactics to “recruit” these animals, featuring spectacular photographs, rare footage, and musical performances inspired by whale song.

Saturday, June 1

Family and Childrens Programs

Families, join a Museum naturalist for a bird walk in Central Park. Young explorers and their parents will learn how to find and identify the many bird species and habitats found in our own “backyard.”

Tuesday, June 4

Members Only Programs

Take part in this Members-only opportunity to visit the Museum’s Division of Paleontology with Senior Scientific Assistant Carl Mehling and Scientific Assistant Alana Gishlick.

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Members Only

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Events Open for Registration or Application

Saturday, June 22

Family and Childrens Programs

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

Registration Open

Registration Open through June 22, 2013

Friday, June 28

Family and Childrens Programs

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

Registration Open

Registration Open through June 28, 2013

Saturday, August 24

Members Only Programs

Pack your collecting bag, old sneakers, and lunch, and travel back in time for an expedition to Big Brook in Monmouth County, New Jersey with Museum paleoentomologist Paul Nascimbene or Senior Scientific Assistant (Paleontology) Carl Mehling. 

Registration Open

Registration Open through August 24, 2013

Members Only

Saturday, July 27

Members Only Programs

Pack your collecting bag, old sneakers, and lunch, and travel back in time for an expedition to Big Brook in Monmouth County, New Jersey with Museum paleoentomologist Paul Nascimbene or Senior Scientific Assistant (Paleontology) Carl Mehling. 

Registration Open

Registration Open through July 27, 2013

Members Only

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