Share in the excitement of discovery with more than 40 galleries exploring the natural world and the universe at one of NYC's top destinations, the American Museum of Natural History.

Highlights:  

• Don't miss out on ticketed exhibitions! Choose the General Admission + One option for one of the following:

  • Be transported into nature’s hidden realms—from the depths of the ocean to the DNA strands in all living organisms—in Invisible Worlds, a unique experience on view in the Museum’s permanent 360-degree immersive theatre.

  • The Secret World of Elephants exhibitionreveals new science about both ancient and modern elephants, including elephants’ extraordinary minds and senses, why they’re essential to the health of their ecosystems, and inspiring efforts to overcome threats to their survival.

  • Passport to the Universe: The original Space Show is back for a limited engagement. Fly beneath the rings of Saturn, float through the heart of the Orion Nebula, and plunge into a black hole during this captivating introduction to cosmology, narrated by Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks.

  • Giant-Screen Film: The Museum's LeFrak Theatre features a 40-foot-high, 66-foot-wide screen and a state-of-the-art digital sound system with nature-inspired films on view. The theatre is wheelchair accessible, and captioning devices and audio description devices are available.

  • Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium: Delight in the year-round immersive exhibit and mingle with up to 1,000 free-flying butterflies—and maybe even experience one landing on you!

• Taking the museum experience to soaring new heights, the new Richard Gilder Centre for Science, Education, and Innovation showcases a year-round Butterfly Vivarium with up to 80 species of free-flying butterflies, an Insectarium devoted to Earth’s most diverse and abundant animal group, and floor-to-ceiling displays of the Museum’s scientific collections.

• Explore the Museum’s famous fossil halls, featuring the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world, including imposing mounts of Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus, as well as the 122-foot-long cast of a titanosaur, a recently discovered giant herbivore that lived in the forests of today’s Patagonia about 100 to 95 million years ago. 

• Discover more than 5,000 minerals, including giant amethyst geodes and fluorescent minerals, in the spectacular Mignone Halls