Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards.

Five hundred shimmering tropical butterflies flutter into the Museum for their annual visit. Traipse through the tropics all winter in their warm and lush habitat, with abundant vegetation and...

This exhibition will dramatically showcase some of the most extraordinary and extreme examples of mammalian life, past and present.

A major feature of the Rose Center is the Scales of the Universe exhibit along the 400-foot-long walkway that hugs the glass wall of the cube. This unique exhibit, which employs the facility's...

Back by popular demand, this delightful exhibition introduces visitors to the colorful and richly diverse world of frogs.

The Museum's tradition of excavating, studying and exhibiting fossil mammals has an even longer and more illustrious history than its work with dinosaurs. The Museum's first expedition to search for...

The Museum's habitat group dioramas, located extensively throughout its halls, are among the most renowned and beloved exhibits at the Museum. With precise depictions of geographical locations and the...

Following the explosive Big Bang experience, visitors exit onto the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway, a dramatic, spiraling ramp that ushers them through 13 billion years of cosmic...

More than 25 Museum expeditions, ranging from Mexico to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, produced the magnificent examples of North American mammals...

This corridor linking the Akeley Hall of African Mammals with the Hall of African Peoples provides gallery space for special photographic exhibitions.

The Hall of Gems displays groups of stones that showcase an extraordinary range of size, color and shape. Among these specimens is the 563-carat Star of India, the largest and most famous star...

This hall explores the pre-Columbian cultures of South America as well as the traditional cultures living in the region today, encompassing the ancient Inka, Moche, Chavin and Chancay cultures as well...

The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians, the Museum's oldest hall, showcases the research conducted during the Museum's first major field expedition, the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902)...

Renowned artist Annie Pootoogook is known for drawings that chronicle the social, economic and cultural realities of the Canadian North.

This exhibit features works by David Brooks, Pilar Conde, Zack Davis, Christian de Vietri, Aaron King, Zak Kitnick, Lynn Koble, Tamara Kostianovsky, Mads Lynnerup, Wyatt Nash, Navin June Norling...

The Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs examines the branches of dinosaurs that possess a backward pointing pubis bone. Additional features found within the Ornithischians include inset tooth rows forming...

'Kandinsky' draws from the three largest public holdings of the artist's work--that of the Guggenheim Museum; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich--as well as...

This intriguing exhibition brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history, showcasing the goods, cultures, and technologies from four representative cities: Xi'an, China's Tang...

The AIA New York Chapter presents 'Arch Schools: Visions of the Future,' its fifth annual exhibition of exemplary student work from fourteen area architecture schools. The theme of the 2009 Arch...

The National Park Service provides ranger-guided walking tours of the museum. Times are posted at the Information Desk.

This annual exhibition of K-12 explorations into the built environment showcases models and drawings from 'Learning By Design:NY,' the school based residency program, as well as work from the youth...

New York is often imagined as a perennially new city, yet in the four decades since the 1965 passage of the New York Landmarks Law, it has become one of the strongest forces for historic preservation...

This exhibition, on view in a dedicated gallery, presents highlights from Justin Thannhauser's bequest of a significant portion of his art collection, including masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, Paul...

The work of Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris, all informed the development of Expressionist art in the years...

The Hall of Biodiversity is a groundbreaking exhibition devoted to what many scientists believe is the most pressing environmental issue of our time: the need to protect and preserve our planet's...

'A Song for the Horse Nation' presents the epic story of the horse's influence on American Indian tribes from the 1600s to the present.

The building that houses the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda is New York State's official memorial to the 26th president of the United States, who not only led expeditions for the American Museum of...

The Visitor Center is chock full of books, CDs and DVDs for your perusal. There is also a first-class exhibit of photos on the walls.

These halls showcase artifacts such as cooking utensils, clothing, weapons and jewelry from traditional Native American cultures in the East and in the Plains. The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians...

A local Staten Island elementary school, PS 35, has participated in a special project with the Department of Transportation to design a traffic sign for pedestrian safety. A replica of the sign is on...