11 am–12:30 pm
Kids will discover why people want to visit Antarctica and how they survive the extreme weather.
5:45 p.m.–9:00 a.m. (next day)
Explore the Museum after-hours and camp out under the watchful eye of the blue whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.
4-5:30 pm
Our most popular children’s workshops are available as a discounted series.
2 pm
Learn about the planets and moons of our solar system in this interactive science theater program for families.
11 AM
Join us for an extended day of family-friendly programs to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Rose Center for Earth and Space.
11 am–noon and 1 - 2 pm
Just in time for Halloween, meet live bats in this Wild, Wild World program with Rob Mies.
2–5 pm
Spend the afternoon trick or treating among the Museum’s halls at this annual Halloween Celebration.
Tuesday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 7 4:30–6 pm For pre-K and K, each child with one adult
This introduction to the night sky for budding astronomers includes activities and observations in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater.
Three Wednesdays December 1, 8, and 15. 4-5:30 pm
Our most popular children’s workshops are available as a discounted series.
Thursdays, December 2 and 9 4:30–6 pm
Come and discover the roles of celestial bodies in the daily lives and cultures of ancient peoples.
Three Wednesdays December 1, 8, and 15. 4-5:30 pm
Our most popular children’s workshops are available as a discounted series.
Three Wednesdays December 1, 8, and 15. 4-5:30 pm
Our most popular children’s workshops are available as a discounted series.
Open Daily
An interactive, hands-on space to explore the wonders of the Museum.
Daily thru Sept 2nd, 2010
features more than 60 live lizards and snakes in re-created habitats, introducing visitors to a diversity of legged and legless creatures and their remarkable adaptations..
Now Playing
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, This awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX Space Team allows audiences to blast off alongside the Atlantis STS-125 crew, witness some of the most challenging spacewalks ever performed, and experience firsthand Hubble's striking images.
Now Playing
In this all-new S pace Show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born. Visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise some five billion years in the future.
Daily thru Jan 2nd, 2011
recounts one of the most stirring tales of Antarctic exploration—the contest to reach the South Pole in 1911-1912—and focuses on the challenges that the two team leaders, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott, confronted as they undertook their journeys to the Pole and back.