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.

Find out about robotic missions to explore our universe and what it will take to build a lunar elevator, deflect deadly asteroids, travel to Mars, and more.

Creatures of Light introduces visitors to the astonishing variety of bioluminescent organisms on Earth.

Follow Sir David Attenborough as he sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs—a group of reptiles that ruled the skies about 220 million years ago and, after insects, were the first animals to fly. Attenborough works with scientists and engineers to try and understand how and why pterosaurs flew, traveling to Big Bend National Park in Texas, Lyme Regis in the United Kingdom, and China’s remote Liaoning Province to get answers. The audience will be immersed in the awe-inspiring world of the pterosaur and experience the enormous challenges these creatures faced to survive, let alone flourish, in prehistoric skies. 

Flying Monsters is a National Geographic film.

Available online graduate courses for educators for this Fall Session I 2012 offering of Seminars on Science

Available online graduate courses for educators for this Fall Session II 2012 offering of Seminars on Science

Observe some of the thousands of water, land, and shorebirds that stop at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge during their migration with the help of Museum ornithologist Paul Sweet.

In these one-day workshops teachers will explore ways to use the newly revised educator's guides for the Hall of Planet Earth and the Hall of the Universe.

Blast off into the future of space exploration with one of the Museum's knowledgeable guides.

Join us for a special Members-only sleepover that concludes with a family-friendly presentation in the Hayden Planetarium and a campout under the blue whale.

Bring the family and embark on a sunset sail aboard the historic Clearwater, a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop. 

Teachers will engage in pre, during, and post-visit activities to learn how to prepare students for a museum learning experience related to bioluminescence.

Learn about the geology and history of Carl Schurz Park and its landmarks from Museum geologist Sidney Horenstein. 

Join a knowledgeable Museum tour guide for an insider’s introduction to all that the Museum has to offer. The tour meets in the Portrait Room on the second floor.

Tour the Museum's anthropological halls to learn about shamans, the messengers between the worlds.

Join Museum geologist Sidney Horenstein on this walking tour that takes Members from lower Manhattan, across the Brooklyn Bridge, and into Brooklyn Heights. 

Pack your collecting bag, old sneakers, and lunch, and join Carl Mehling, fossil collections manager in the Division of Paleontology, on the search for invertebrate and vertebrate fossils

See pivotal astronomical discoveries re-created in the Hayden Planetarium dome. MORE