Naming Opportunities

Your giving deserves to be celebrated!

We are honored to recognize your generosity in a variety of ways, including opportunities to commemorate meaningful occasions or people in your life, especially now, when your support is most critical. We look forward to helping you pay tribute to your relationship with the Museum or honor someone special in your life.

Seats for Science

$2,500–$50,000

Become a lasting part of the Museum by donating a Seat for Science and Learning. A plaque with your custom message will appear on your selected theater seat or gallery bench. Honor a friend, colleague, or family member today! For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or 212-769-5157

Naming Displays and Exhibits

$25,000 and up

We are pleased to invite you to support the Museum by naming one of its iconic dioramas, displays, or exhibits.

Naming opportunities are available throughout the Museum. Establish a legacy in our beloved fourth-floor dinosaur halls by naming select fossil displays*, honor a loved one with recognition in our timeless Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, or contact us to discuss possibilities in more detail. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or 212-769-5157

*Please note: This opportunity is to name a display, not a specimen

Naming Spaces, Positions, and Funds

$100,000 and up

We are delighted to speak with you about opportunities that resonate with you or your loved ones. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or 212-769-5157

Inside the Hayden Planetarium theater, visitors look upwards at representations of the constellations projected above.
A named seat in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater will give you a Seat in the Stars. Seats for Science are available from $2,500 to $25,000. 
C. Chesek/© AMNH
Life-sized Stegosaurus skeleton on display in one of the Museum's dinosaur halls.
The Museum's Stegosaurus stenops specimen was discovered during the Museum's first major dinosaur excavation in Bone Cabin Quarry, Wyoming, in 1901 and is one of the many fossil displays available to name.
D. Finnin/© AMNH
A Museum diorama displays a model of a mother skunk and a row of baby skunks following behind.
This diorama in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals depicts a mother skunk leading her five kits from their den on a hunting sortie.
D. Finnin/© AMNH