Super Saver – Enjoy everything the Museum has to offer—Dinosaurs the Space Shows, IMAX® films—up to six special offerings, now for one low price!Super Saver – Enjoy everything the Museum has to offer—Dinosaurs the Space Shows, IMAX® films—up to six special offerings, now for one low price!
The Polar Rink – The Museum has opened an outdoor skating rink for the first time in its 140-year history! The Polar Rink, made from a synthetic surface, is located on the Arthur Ross Terrace.
Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future – This major new exhibition explores the science, history, and impact of climate change, and illuminates ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints.
The Horse – This new exhibition examines the powerful and continuing relationship between the horse and humans. See how horses have, over time, changed many facets of human life.
The Butterfly Conservatory – The butterflies are back! Celebrate the eleventh annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies.
Lizards and Snakes: Alive! – The squamates return in this popular exhibition showcasing more than 60 live animals representing 27 species from all over the world.
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure – In this thrilling large-format film, travel back 82 million years to a time when strange creatures filled the seas that once covered what is now the middle of North America.
Cosmic Collisions – The breathtaking new Space Show launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time—well beyond the calm face of the night sky—to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe.
Ring in the Holidays! - An annual Museum tradition, the delightfully decorated Origami Holiday Tree and two merrily lit 19-foot Holiday Barosaurs welcome visitors throughout the holiday season.
Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins – Offering the most comprehensive evidence of human evolution ever assembled, this hall explores the most profound mysteries of humankind: who we are, where we came from, and what is in store for the future of our species.
Dioramas Web site – features four 360° panoramic virtual tours, archival photos, and hall highlight videos with Stephen Quinn, author of Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History—now available in our online shop.
Fossil Halls – Four 360° panoramic virtual tours and hall highlight videos with curators Mike Novacek and Mark Norell are among the features showcasing the famed fourth-floor halls.
The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life – Home to one of the Museum's most celebrated icons, the 94-foot-long blue whale model, the hall is a fully immersive marine environment with video projections, interactive computer stations, and ocean dioramas.
The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites – The circular layout of this permanent hall centers around a massive 34-ton iron meteorite fragment called Ahnighito.
The Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth – This permanent hall displays one of the most outstanding collections of geological specimens ever displayed in an exhibition hall.