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

Observe the vibrant spring migration of birds in Central Park with Museum ornithologists.

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.

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

Learn more about neuroscience through hands-on experiments and innovative lab activities. 

Visit the rarely seen research collections of amphibians and reptiles in the Department of Herpetology, which houses more than 350,000 specimens from nearly every country in the world.

Authors James Gould and Carol Gould discuss, and sign, their latest book, Nature’s Compass.