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:  

• 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.

• Taking the museum experience to soaring new heights, the new Richard Gilder Center 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 of Gems and Minerals  

• Explore marine ecosystems in the immersive Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, featuring models of more than 750 animals, including the iconic 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale  

• Don’t miss the world-renowned habitat dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals, Hall of African Mammal Halls, and others, which depict specific locations throughout the world 

• Learn about the evolutionary story of the human family in the Hall of Human Origins  

• Explore the 13-billion-year history of the universe in the galleries of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium