Hours and Temporary Hall Closures
Open daily, 10 am–5:30 pm.
Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Please see our Calendar for evening and other special events.
Temporary Hall Closures
Some exhibitions and amenities may be temporarily closed for maintenance, or events that support the Museum's scientific research and educational programs.
This list is updated weekly. For May 31–June 11:
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Hall of North American Forests will be partially closed.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at 3 pm and the upper level will close at 4 pm.
- Hall of Asian Mammals will close at 3:30 pm.
- Central Park West main entrance/exit will close at 3:30 pm.
- Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda will close at 3:30 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at 3 pm and the upper level will close at 3:30 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life will open at 10:15 am, and will be closed from 12–2:30 pm.
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall is partially closed until 2 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Hall of North American Forests will be partially closed.
- Astor Turret will open at 12 pm.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at 12 pm and the upper level will close at 4 pm.
- Hall of Asian Mammals will close at 3:30 pm.
- Central Park West main entrance/exit will close at 3:30 pm.
- Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center will close at 3:30 pm.
- Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda will close at 3:30 pm.
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals will close at 4 pm and the mezzanine will close at 4:30 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals will close at 3 pm.
- Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center will close at 3 pm.
- Spitzer Hall of Human Origins will close at 3:30 pm.
- Ross Hall of Meteorites will close at 3:30 pm.
- Futter Gallery will partially close at 4 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals will open at 11 am.
- Cullman Hall of the Universe will close at 3 pm.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at 3 pm and the upper level will close at 4 pm.
- Hall of Asian Mammals will close at 3:30 pm.
- Central Park West main entrance/exit will close at 3:30 pm.
- Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda will close at 3:30 pm.
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals will close at 4 pm.
- Hall of North American Forests will close at 4 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life upper level will open at 11 am and the lower level will open at 1 pm.
- School Group Check-In will close at 3 pm.
- Gilder Center/Columbus Ave. entrance/exit will close at 4 pm.
- Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium will close at 4 pm.
- Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center will close at 4 pm.
- Griffin Exploration Atrium will close at 4 pm.
- Invisible Worlds will close at 4 pm.
- Solomon Family Insectarium will close at 4 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Cullman Hall of the Universe will close at 2 pm.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at 3 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
- Coat check is closed until further notice.