Hours and Temporary Hall Closures
The Museum will be open 10 am–4 pm on Tuesday, October 22.
Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
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 October 16–27:
Floor 4:
- Astor Turret will be closed 11 am–1:30 pm.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Columbus Avenue/Gilder Center entrance/exit will close at 1 pm.
- School Group Check-In will close at 1 pm.
- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals will close at 3 pm.
- Griffin Exploration Atrium will close at 3:30 pm.
- Solomon Family Insectarium will close at 3:30 pm.
- Gilder Gift Shop will close at 3:30 pm.
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life upper level will be partially closed 4–4:50 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 4:
- Hall of Vertebrate Origins will partially close at 3 pm.
- Wallach Orientation Center will close at 4:30 pm.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life upper level will partially close 4–4:50 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 2:
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals will be partially closed.
Floor 1:
- 77th Street exit will open at 10:30 am.
- Futter Gallery will open at 11 am.
- Mollusks of New York State will be closed 2–4:30 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
The Museum will be open from 10 am–4 pm today.
Floor 4:
- Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center will close at 2 pm.
- The Secret World of Elephants will close at 3:30 pm.
Floor 3:
- Invisible Worlds will close at 2 pm.
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals Mezzanine will partially close at 2:30 pm.
- Hall of Eastern Woodlands is closed.
- Hall of the Great Plains is closed.
Floor 2:
- Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium will close at 2 pm.
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals will close at 2:30 pm.
- Hall of Asian Mammals will close at 2:30 pm.
- Central Park West entrance will close at 2:30 pm.
- Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda will close at 2:30 pm.
Floor 1:
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life will be closed.
- School Group Check-In will close at 2 pm.
- Columbus Avenue/Gilder Center entrance/exit will close at 2 pm.
- Griffin Exploration Atrium will close at 2 pm.
- Solomon Family Insectarium will close at 2 pm.
- Hall of Biodiversity will partially close at 2:30 pm.
- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals will close at 3 pm.
- Hayden Planetarium will close at 3:30 pm.
- LeFrak Theater will close at 3:30 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 2:
- Akeley Hall of African Mammals will be partially closed 10 am–12 pm.
Floor 1:
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life upper level will be partially closed 3:45–4:50 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals will close at 3 pm.
- Griffin Exploration Atrium will partially close at 3 pm.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 4:
- Astor Turret will be closed 11 am–1:30 pm.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Hall of North American Forests will be partially closed.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Hall of North American Forests will be partially closed.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Floor 3:
Floor 1:
- Milstein Hall of Ocean Life lower level will close at noon and the upper level will partially close at noon.
- Hall of North American Forests will be partially closed.
- Discovery Room is closed until further notice.
Coat check is closed until further notice.
Please see our Calendar for evening and other special events.
All times subject to change.