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.

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

Join Museum exhibition specialist Tom Doncourt for a behind-the-scenes look at habitat dioramas.

The Museum honors African-American History Month with a tribute to storytellers and griots who give rich voice to the African-American experience! From noon to 6 pm, the program features Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of multi-platinum hip-hop group Run-DMC, who returns to the Museum with Oscar-nominated youth ensemble IMPACT Repertory Theatre, special guest NEA Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis, and other storytellers, poets, choreographers, and more.

Celebrate the holiday with a unique NYC experience only at the Hayden Planetarium!