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

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. 

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.

This is a special multi-day Global Weekends festival exploring beauty from a global perspective and how beauty is represented throughout cultures and time.

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. 

Join neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Ph.D.,and sociologist Priscilla Ferguson, Ph.D., for a conversation about what our food choices can tell us about the brain and society.

This presentation by astrophysicist Emily Rice will explore the discoveries of Hubble’s friends, old and new, from the Orbiting Astronomical Observatories of the 1960s and ’70s to the James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2018. 

The Museum's Twitter followers are invited to explore Whales after hours, meet curators and scientists, and enjoy a special selection of food and drink.

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.