Special Exhibit
The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter
Through May 27, 2013

Special Exhibit
Through May 27, 2013
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.
Sold Out
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
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.
Sold Out
Members Only
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
August 8, 2013
In this one-day workshop, middle and high school teachers will explore ways to use the revised Educator’s Guide for the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. This hall presents amazing objects for examining essential questions about Earth Science.
Registration Open
Registration Open through July 22, 2013