At the Museum

Visit this famous, ferocious dinosaur in the Museum's Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs. You can also watch these videos to learn everything you ever wanted to know about this iconic dinosaur.

There’s nothing quite like standing under the 94-foot-long model of a blue whale in the Hall of Ocean Life. You can also read this conversation between the whale and the titanosaur.

Learn how to draw a scientific illustration of a monarch butterfly, one of the many species of moths and butterflies that live in the Butterfly Conservatory.

Check out this mystery photo. Hint: It’s a detail from a diorama in the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.

You can see Zapotec urns like this one in the Hall of Mexico and Central American.  Find out why it's not easy being an artifact in this urn-est interview.

There are 168 specimens in the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. Meet six of them that traveled to the Museum from places like Mexico, Scotland, and even outer space!

The newest (and largest) dinosaur in the fossil halls has a lot to say. You can read this interview to find out how it lived millions of years ago and how it came to the Museum.

Astronomy is a BIG subject. Before visiting the Rose Center for Earth and Space you can read up on some of the big ideas, from constellations to rockets to the mysterious stuff called dark matter.

Play this game to explore the plants and animals of the Dzangha-Sangha rain forest in Africa. (A replica can be found in the Hall of Biodiversity!).

See how many birds you can spot on a virtual birdwatching trip in Oyster Bay, where President Theodore Roosevelt spent his summers.

Did you know that six dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals show landscapes from national parks? You can explore three of them here.

Did you know that six dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals show landscapes from national parks? You can explore three of them here.