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. 

Explore how food, nutrition, taste and culture intersect as we examine the interdisciplinary field of the anthropology of food.

In anticipation of the upcoming Lunar New Year, this festival invites visitors to explore and experience traditions old and new that celebrate the Moon. Enjoy a meditative reflection on the dawa (moon) with a Lama from Tibet;

learn a Grandmother Moon song from singer-songwriter Bear Fox and the Akwesasne Women Singers of the Mohawk Nation; create your own Dong Ho Vietnamese folk painting, and much more.

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