October 6, 2018 — May 27, 2019
Timed entry only. Whitney Hall of Oceanic Birds, second floor.
[Beat of a musical instrument. Two fluttering orange-and-black butterflies near the same leaf, one sitting, one flying. A yellow butterfly lands amid foliage.]
Voice of Hazel Davies: Come visit the tropics at the American Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Conservatory,
[Close-up on one butterfly, focus change, another butterfly in the foreground appears.]
where you can walk through lush green foliage
[A striped butterfly sits on a different leaf.]
and blooming tropical flowers,
[Close-up of chrysalises hanging in a row, first a row of brown, then a row of