Guided Tours

Free Guided Tours

Highlight tours are offered daily at 30 minutes past the hour from 10:30 am through 3:30 pm. Experienced guides will take visitors to many of the iconic halls and displays located throughout the Museum.

View the day’s schedule and sign up for a tour at the information desk in the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall on Floor 1.
Tours are approximately 75 minutes long and are offered in additional languages based on tour guide availability.
All tours are accessible by wheelchair.

Foreign Language Tours

Highlight tours are offered in several languages throughout the week. Tour times are subject to change with guide availability. Please visit an information desk to confirm the daily tour schedule.

French

Italian

Spanish

Mandarin Chinese

Hebrew

Spotlight Tours

Spotlight tours focus on a specific hall or topic for approximately 1 hour, allowing for a deeper dive into a particular content area. Please visit an information desk to confirm the daily tour schedule.

Hall of the Universe

Hall of Asian Peoples

Accessible Tours

The Museum offers a variety of specially designed tours for visitors with disabilities and their families. Learn more about accessibility at the Museum.

For Visitors Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Experience informative, entertaining, and inspiring presentations of permanent and special exhibitions for both deaf and hearing audiences with simultaneously signed and spoken tours.

Registration required, no walk-ins are accepted. Email [email protected] or call 212-313-7565 at least 72 hours in advance to register.
Free for Members or with Museum admission. Programs subject to change.
Programs with sign language are intended primarily for the Deaf community. ASL students may attend, but we do not sign attendance sheets.

Upcoming tours:

To be announced.

Note: To schedule a tour outside of the regularly scheduled programs, please email [email protected] with 2 weeks notice.

For Visitors with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

Discovery Squad is an engaging, hands-on program designed for neurodivergent children ages 5-12 and their families; this includes autistic children, as well as children with other intellectual or developmental disabilities. Before the Museum opens to the public, families can attend a 45-minute tour of select halls that fit the theme of that month’s program, followed by 45 minutes of free play and exploration in the Discovery Room. Participants can expect a sensory-friendly, neurodiversity-affirming experience where curiosity is welcomed in all its forms.

Time: 9-10:30am, Third Saturday of every month
Price: Free; Advance registration required

Upcoming Tours

SOLD OUT! July 19 - Discover Elephants: This session will include a tour of our special exhibition, The Secret World of Elephants.
SOLD OUT! August 16 - Discover Insects: This session will include a visit to the Solomon Family Insectarium as well as the Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium. Participants will have the option to interact with live insects.

To register for Discovery Squad, please call Central Reservations at 212-769-5200 or email [email protected].

Discovery Squad was developed in collaboration with the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Third Party Tours 

The American Museum of Natural History does not allow third parties to lead private tours within the Museum. Any unauthorized tours will be asked to stop immediately.

Are you a group operator, SYTA or ABA Member? Reservations for group visits can be made by calling the Museum's Central Reservations team at (+1) 212-769-5200.