Calendar
May 2025
Mead Film Festival: Friday
The festival weekend will begin with Seeds, a portrait of Black farmers in Georgia fighting for their land's future.
Friday, May 2, 2025
7 pm
Mead Film Festival: Saturday
The second day of the Margaret Mead Film Festival.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
The Remaining Native Run
A community run to mark the NY premiere of Remaining Native, about a track star wrestling with the legacy of Indian boarding schools.
Saturday, May 3
5 pm
Emerging Visual Anthropologist Showcase
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents exciting new ethnographic documentaries from emerging visual anthropologists.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
11 am–1:30 pm
Mead Film Festival: Sunday
The last day of the 2025 Margaret Mead Film Festival.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Humans and Nature in the Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives
Join Vera Solovyeva and Maidi Eira Andersson as they share Indigenous perspectives on kinship with nature.
Sunday, May 4
6 pm
Member Evening Hours
Off-hours access for Members and their guests.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 and June 24, 2025
6–8 pm
SciCafe: Sea Slugs, Pirates of the Ocean
Discover how sea slugs steal toxins to survive, rewriting the rules of survival in their underwater world.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7 pm
Educators’ Evening: Spitzer Hall of Human Origins
Join us for an in-person special evening for educators celebrating our recently updated Hall of Human Origins.
Friday, May 9, 2025
4-7 pm
Expedition AI: Demystify Artificial Intelligence
AI seems to be everywhere. But what is it, and how can we make sense of this rapidly evolving technology?
Saturday, May 10, 2025
2-4 pm
Data in the Age of AI: In Conversation with Sean Decatur and Alondra Nelson
Museum President Sean Decatur and Alondra Nelson will discuss the ethics of AI in a fast-changing world.
Monday, May 12, 2025
7 pm
Speaker Series for Teachers: Col. Louis Cook’s Story
Learn about “Colonel Louis Cook,” a.k.a. Atayataghronghta, an unknown revolutionary war hero.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5 pm ET
Member Preview Days for Life at the Limits
Members can enjoy exclusive preview access to this extraordinary exhibition.
Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18
10:30 am–4:30 pm
OrigamiUSA: May Special Folding Fun Session
OrigamiUSA offers morning and afternoon origami-making sessions at the Museum.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Frontiers Lecture: Low-Mass Galaxies
Join us to explore how two satellite galaxies are reshaping the Milky Way, and leaving lasting cosmic imprints.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
7 pm
June 2025
SciCafe: Living With Wildfires
Join us for a deep dive into the evolving relationship among humans, wildfires, and climate change.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
7 pm
Frontiers Lecture: Lunar Volcanoes
In 2025, Artemis II aims to return astronauts to the Moon, offering new discoveries about lunar geology.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
7 pm