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. 

Available online graduate courses for educators for this Summer Session II 2013 offering of Seminars on Science

Available online graduate courses for educators for this Summer Session I 2013 offering of Seminars on Science

Observe the vibrant spring migration of birds in Central Park with Museum ornithologists.

Observe the vibrant spring migration of birds in Central Park with Museum ornithologists. 

Observe the vibrant spring migration of birds in Central Park with Museum ornithologists.

Observe the vibrant spring migration of birds in Central Park with Museum ornithologists as your guide. 

In this new film, shown continuously in the GeoDome theater, Museum scientists John Sparks, David Gruber, and Vincent Pieribone take a journey to the remote South Pacific coral reefs of the Solomon Islands to explore newly discovered biofluorescent species of fishes and stingrays, along with biofluorescent corals, crinoids, anemones, and other glowing invertebrates.

Train to be a Museum forest ranger! In this hands-on workshop, you will explore Earth’s majestic forests, learn to identify tree species, understand the importance of forests to our planet’s health, and more.

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

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. 

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. 

Learn more about neuroscience through hands-on experiments and innovative lab activities. 

Meet us in Yonkers at the only greenhouse floating on the Hudson River. Members will learn about renewable energy and sustainable food production with Science Barge staff.

Listen in on a conversation between Curators Emeriti Ian Tattersall and Stanley Freed as they discuss Stanley Freed's book, Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City.

Join ornithologist Paul Sweet on walks through Central Park during spring migration. Learn how to identify the varied bird species of New York City using field marks, behavior, and song. 

Visit the rarely seen research collections of amphibians and reptiles in the Department of Herpetology, which houses more than 350,000 specimens from nearly every country in the world.

Authors James Gould and Carol Gould discuss, and sign, their latest book, Nature’s Compass.