• Plan Your Visit

  The Museum is open daily from 10 am to 5:45 pm except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

  • Interactive Floorplan
  • Plan a School or Camp Group Visit
  • Plan Your Group Visit
  • Admissions and Ticketing
  • Directions and Transportation
  • Dining
  • Shop
  • Coat Check and Photography
  • Public Tours

  • Popular Tours

  • Dino Tour
  • Highlights Tour
  • Night At The Museum Tour
  • Beyond Planet Earth Tour
  • Earth and Space Tour
  • Creatures of Light Tour
• Exhibitions

  • Current Exhibitions

  • Creatures of Light
  • Beyond Planet Earth
  • Journey to the Stars Space Show
  • Born to Be Wild IMAX Film

  • Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Spiders Alive!
  • Flying Monsters IMAX Film
  • The Butterfly Conservatory

  • Permanent Exhibitions
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  • Past Exhibitions
• Learn & Teach

  • Find Programs and Resources for...

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  • Pre-K - Primary
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  • Class Field Trips

  • Evaluation, Research, and Policy
  • Master of Arts in Teaching
• Explore
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  • Behind the Scenes

  • Featured Topics

  • Water and Life on Earth
  • The Pluto Question
  • Birds are Dinosaurs
  • Vietnam Diversity
  • Explore All Topics
• Our Research

  • Divisions

  • Anthropology
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  • Invertebrate Zoology
  • Physical Sciences
  • Astrophysics
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Vertebrate Zoology
  • Herpetology
  • Ichthyology
  • Mammalogy
  • Ornithology

  • Hayden Planetarium
  • Richard Gilder Graduate School
  • Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics
  • Southwestern Research Station
  • Research Library
  • Microscopy and Imaging Facility
  • Computational Sciences

  • Science News
  • Staff Directory
  • Scientific Publications
• Calendar
• Join & Support
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