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.

Train to be a Museum forest ranger! In these hands-on workshops, explore Earth’s majestic forests, learn to identify different species of trees, understand the importance of forests to our planet’s health, and discover how we can protect these precious resources.

Train to be a Museum forest ranger! In these hands-on workshops, explore Earth’s majestic forests, learn to identify different species of trees, understand the importance of forests to our planet’s health, and discover how we can protect these precious resources.