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Trip to the Moon
The Zeiss mark IX star projector inside the Hayden Planetarium.
© D. Finnin/AMNH

New! Field Trip to the Moon  

  • Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
  • Hayden Planetarium Space Theater

On this trip to the Moon in the immersive Hayden Planetarium, you'll feel the ground shake as your rocket launches, see a sunrise in space, and orbit and land on the Moon. Guided by a live presenter, you'll admire the view from where humans last walked on the Moon, and see what awaits us on future missions.

For more information click here.


How Do You See Your Music?

SonicVision
Heaven: Temple of Eyes "Honestly"
This soaring image was created by artist Alex Grey to accompany Zwan's "Honestly" and adapted from his painting Collective Vision.
© D. Finnin/AMNH

SonicVision   Buy SonicVision Tickets

  • SonicVision is presented on selected Friday and Saturday evenings, at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Click here to see the current schedule.

The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with MTV2, presents SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show.

SonicVision takes audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium's dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions. SonicVision is presented every Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., in the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space.