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.

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.

Calling all future astronauts! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live and work in space? Train to go on space walks, conduct experiments on a space station, and experience the thrill of space travel. 

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. 

Experience live butterflies in an indoor tropical rainforest! In this workshop, you will observe these fascinating insects up close to investigate how they eat, grow, trick hungry predators, and migrate. 

This introduction to the night sky was developed for budding astronomers. Classroom activities and observations in the Hayden Planetarium reveal the stars above and the ancient stories that have followed them through the ages.

The Museum's celebrated spaces serve as the setting for an intensive after-hours drawing course with illustrator and naturalist Patricia Wynne. 

Break out your sleeping bags and experience the Museum as never before. 

Explore how the brains of fruit flies and humans interpret taste and how this affects behavior. 

Join us in the Hayden Planetarium for an evening of star hopping, mythology, and stories of the sky.

Join a guide for an insider’s introduction to all that the Museum has to offer.

Explore the relationship between humans and the oceans, from cultural traditions and fishing practices to sustainable seafood, and learn what you can do to be good steward of the Earth’s seas.

Highly skilled teachers from OrigamiUSA lead a day of "Special Folding Fun Sessions."

The film SHELLSHOCKED: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves follows efforts in New York Harbor to prevent the extinction of wild oyster reefs, which keep our oceans healthy by filtering water and engineering ecosystems. 

Science fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade, conflict, super-technology, and romance. Back in our real universe, Earth-like planets and extraterrestrial life have proved elusive; not a microbe has been found. Join Geoff Marcy as he discusses the latest on NASA’s new space-borne Kepler telescope, which is finding the first Earth-like worlds around other stars.

Author and environmentalist Richard Ellis brings together art and science in an exploration of the world’s never-ending fascination with sharks.

Biologist David Haskell offers insights into the workings of forests and personal reflections on the practice of close observation of nature.

Break out your sleeping bags and experience the Museum as never before. 

Launch your weekend with drinks and dancing at the most explosive party this side of the Milky Way. See and be seen under the stars as live bands, DJs, and VJs present the hottest music and project dynamic visuals at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Cocktails keep the party going.

See more details at One Step Beyond.

You must be 21 or older to attend this event, and present a valid I.D.*