The Museum's Twitter followers are invited to explore Whales after hours, meet curators and scientists, and enjoy a special selection of food and drink.

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

Meet us in Yonkers at the only greenhouse floating on the Hudson River. Members will learn about renewable energy and sustainable food production with Science Barge staff.

Listen in on a conversation between Curators Emeriti Ian Tattersall and Stanley Freed as they discuss Stanley Freed's book, Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City.

Join ornithologist Paul Sweet on walks through Central Park during spring migration. Learn how to identify the varied bird species of New York City using field marks, behavior, and song. 

The successful August 5, 2012, landing of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars represents an unprecedented achievement. John Grotzinger, the project scientist for the Curiosity mission, presents highlights. 

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.

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.

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

Bring your shells, rocks, insects, feathers, bones, and artifacts to the annual Identification Day.

Japanese sake is getting more popular every year, but it remains an age-old wine with much mystery. Join writer and sake “samurai” Timothy Sullivan, as he reveals behind- the-scenes details about Japan’s famous Hakkaisan Sake Brewery.

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

Paul Sweet, collections manager in the Department of Ornithology, leads this expedition to a bird-watching site in Sullivan County, New York.

Featuring live species, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors illuminates the diversity and evolution of frogs inhabiting the globe.

Join a guide for an insider’s introduction to all that the Museum has to offer, from world-famous habitat dioramas to the spectacular Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The Members-only tour meets in the Portrait Room on the second floor. 

Go inside a 45-foot, life-size replica of a humpback whale; explore hands-on activities; meet scientists, and more, in this family program.

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

Take a virtual trip to the Moon from the Hayden Planetarium.

In this program, Museum research scientist Jackie Faherty uses the power of the Dome’s Zeiss IX Projector and the Museum’s Digital Universe Atlas to simulatenumerousexcitingcelestialphenomenathat you should be able to see in your lifetime.

Join a riveting discussion with explorers and scientists who are using daring new tactics to “recruit” these animals, featuring spectacular photographs, rare footage, and musical performances inspired by whale song.

Families, join a Museum naturalist for a bird walk in Central Park. Young explorers and their parents will learn how to find and identify the many bird species and habitats found in our own “backyard.”

Musician and surgeon Charles Limb, of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, used functional MRI to measure activity in the brains of musicians as they play music, finding deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Even the greatest scientists have made serious blunders. In this lecture, renowned astrophysicist Mario Livio discusses errors by such giants as Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein.

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

Join us in the Hayden Planetarium as we soar through the Universe on a hunt for planets beyond our solar system!

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

Join us in the Hayden Planetarium as we soar through the Universe on a hunt for planets beyond our solar system!

Explore the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, learn about DNA, examine casts of hominid fossils—and have fun doing it! 

Why do some scientists call birds “living dinosaurs”? How much did the biggest dinosaurs have to eat to survive? How did mother dinosaurs raise their babies?

Is your child one year too young for the Museum’s Adventure Camps? Give him or her a taste of what hands-on learning is all about with three fun days that focus on astrophysics, frogs, and dinosaurs.

Join us in the Hayden Planetarium as we soar through the Universe on a hunt for planets beyond our solar system!

Why do some scientists call birds “living dinosaurs”? How much did the biggest dinosaurs have to eat to survive? How did mother dinosaurs raise their babies?