Getting ready for Independence Day 2019? The Museum is open throughout the holiday weekend, with plenty of ways to celebrate.
What’s more American than apple pie? Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome carnivore first discovered in Montana in 1905 by Museum fossil hunter Barnum Brown. Find out how T. rex grew from tiny hatchling to a bone-crushing giant in the new exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator.
See some of the most scenic spots in America’s national parks without leaving New York City, with a walk through one of the Museum’s beloved diorama halls, the Bernard Hall of North American Mammals.
If you can’t make it to the beach, beat the heat with a double-feature dive into the thrilling giant-screen film Oceans: Our Blue Planet, now showing in 2D and 3D in the LeFrak Theater, followed by an exploration of mysterious depths in the Unseen Oceans special exhibition.
And finally, there’s fireworks—cosmic fireworks, that is. No matter where you sit in the Hayden Planetarium, you'll have spectacular views of the cosmos in the Space Show Dark Universe—including this scene showing the expansion of space, carrying galaxies away from any observation point.
