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.

Follow trainers on early-morning fitness walks through the Museum before it opens to the public, enjoying a quiet visit and views of favorite dioramas and displays.

This class will introduce and discuss the physical laws and principles that make the Universe what it is, from gravity to electromagnetism to quantum mechanics.

In Alien Planets, you will create a realistic exoplanet while learning about planets in our solar system and exploring new discoveries about other planetary systems.

Students in this course will discuss the genetics of human diversity and how the illnesses affecting certain populations are a combination of nature (genetics, geography) and nurture (environment).

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

Flight of the Butterflies takes viewers on the epic 3,000-mile journey traveled every fall by half a billion Monarch butterflies!

This course explores the heavens above as viewed from New York City.  We will cover the basics of amateur astronomy using planetariums and the night sky to practice naked-eye and binocular observation.

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.

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.

An all-day event devoted to studying pressing questions about the future of food. 

This five-session creative writing class at the Museum, taught by Hannah Tinti, will focus on the natural world, with each session held in a different gallery.

At scales of thousands of light years, stars are born, galaxies form, and supernovae explode. Our understanding of the origins of the Earth and beyond relies increasingly on the comparison of numerical models to ground and space-based observations.

Catch a glimpse of owls, songbirds, and woodpeckers in the woods, seed-eating birds in the fields, and multiple species of ducks and gulls in the lakes as ornithologist Paul Sweet guides you through three Central Park habitats to observe the varied bird species of New York City