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. 

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.

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

Available online graduate courses for educators for this Spring Session I 2013 offering of Seminars on Science

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

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. 

On the island of New Guinea there are unusual lizards with bright green blood. Could these reptiles offer clues to better understand diseases in humans like malaria and jaundice?  Associate Curator at the American Museum of Natural History Susan Perkins and Chris Austin, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University, will discuss their work on this system.