Invisible Worlds

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Additional ticket required. Free for Members
Floor 3, Gilder Center - Enter via Susan S. and Kenneth Wallach Gallery

Visitors stand inside the Invisible Worlds immersive theater, surrounded by projections.
Matt Shanley and Alvaro Keding/© AMNH
Explore nature’s hidden realms, and discover how all life on Earth is connected in this new immersive experience.

Invisible Worlds explores networks of life at all scales—including some that are too fast, too small, or too slow for the human eye. At key moments, you'll become part of the story as your movements affect the projections around you.

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Related and Connected

Before entering the immersive experience, explore the themes that connect life on Earth across thousands of miles, millions of species, and billions of years in the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Gallery.

Discover why your hand resembles a bat's wing. Find out how organisms interact in ecosystems, including as part of complex food webs. And consider the ultimate social network: cells relaying impulses to neighboring cells in the human brain.

Become Part of the Story

Enter the venue at any point in the story to begin your journey through Invisible Worlds, an immersive experience based on authentic scientific data visualized like never before. 

Visitors stand inside the Invisible Worlds immersive theater, surrounded by projections.
Iwan Baan

Travel through the layers of a lush rainforest in Brazil to explore how living things feed, shelter, and support each other from the root network in the soil to the leafy canopy high above the forest floor.

Dropping into New York City from above, glimpse networks of satellites tracing Earth's orbit and some of the ways humans connect with each other, and with nature, in Central Park, before delving into the complex network of the human brain.

Follow a vertical migration of jellyfish and microscopic plankton that feed on the algae at the ocean's surface—and encounter a majestic humpback whale.

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Members see the Invisible Worlds immersive experience free on every visit! 

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Visitors stand inside the Invisible Worlds immersive theater, surrounded by projections.  

Capacity is limited to maintain health and safety.

Length: 12-minute looping immersive experience

Showtimes: Ongoing

The American Museum of Natural History gratefully acknowledges Raymond James as the inaugural sponsor of Invisible Worlds.
Text logo that spells out Raymond James.