ALL-NEW GIANT SCREEN FILM OPENS JULY 1, NEW YORK CITY VACCINATION SITE NOW OPEN SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK, HALLS OF GEMS AND MINERALS NOW OPEN, AND MORE!
UPCOMING EXHIBITION!
Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker Giant-Screen Film opens July 1.
The giant-screen film Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker is opening in the Museum’s LeFrak Theater which features a 40-foot-high, 66-foot-wide screen with a state-of-the-art digital sound system. The film follows the journey of an endangered Australian sea lion pup named Otto as she learns to navigate her beautiful but harsh environment with the help of her mother and others in her colony.
NEW YORK CITY VACCINATION SITE NOW OPEN SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK
A walk-in New York City COVID-19 vaccination site is now open 7 days per week under the blue whale in the Museum’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. Operating from 10 am to 5 pm, the vaccination site is open to walk-ins, serving New York City residents ages 12+, with set-aside appointments for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents and staff and District Council 37 (DC37) members, New York’s largest public employee union with members who work at City cultural institutions. For more information, visit the Museum’s website HERE, or register for an appointment by visiting NYC Vaccine Finder and selecting the American Museum of Natural History vaccination site or by calling 877-VAX-4NYC (877-829-4692).
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals is now open.
Opened June 12, the Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals offers a brilliant showcase for one of the world’s most important collections of gems and minerals and an engaging guide to our dynamic planet. Thoroughly redesigned and reinstalled, the 11,000-square-foot Halls feature about 5,000 specimens from 95 countries, including a pair of towering, sparkling amethyst geodes from Uruguay that are among the world’s largest on display, a wall-sized panel of fluorescent rock from Sterling Hill in New Jersey that glows in shades of orange and green, and a temporary gallery, the Melissa and Keith Meister Gallery, opened with Beautiful Creatures, which presents more than 100 precious jewels inspired by animals from the world’s great jewelry houses and artisans.
The all-new Halls tell the fascinating story of how the vast diversity of mineral species arose on Earth, how scientists classify and study them, and how we use them for personal adornment, tools and technology. Advance timed-entry ticket reservations are available now HERE.
Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence is now open.
This exhibition will explore the extraordinary organisms that produce light, from the flickering fireflies found in backyards across the Northeast to the deep-sea fishes that illuminate the perpetually dark ocean depths. Rare among plants and animals that live on land, the ability to glow—that is, generate light through a chemical reaction—is much more common in the ocean, where up to 90 percent of animals at depths below 700 meters are bioluminescent.
In Creatures of Light, visitors will move through a series of re-created environments, from the familiar to the extreme, to explore the diversity of organisms that glow and how they do it; discover the variety of ways in which light is used to attract a mate, lure unsuspecting prey, or defend against a predator; and learn how, where, and why scientists study this amazing natural phenomenon. Advance timed-entry ticket reservations are available now HERE.
The Nature of Color is now open.
Color is woven so tightly into our lives that we rarely stop to question what it is and how it works. The immersive exhibition The Nature of Color reveals how color carries information both in nature and across cultures. Discover how color is used in the natural world to help organisms survive and reproduce and how humans use it in various cultures to signal social status, group affiliation, and more. Featuring intricate models, cultural objects, and interactive exhibits that will engage the entire family, this exhibition will offer opportunities to connect with color through experimentation and play, including dancing with color shadows, mixing and splitting different colors of light in a Color Lab, and even creating collaborative artworks.
Worlds Beyond Earth, the Museum’s newest Space Show, is currently screening in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater.
Viewers can journey beyond our own blue planet to marvel at the latest discoveries from our cosmic neighbors.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Worlds Beyond Earth takes viewers on an exhilarating journey that reveals the dynamic nature of the worlds that orbit our Sun and features immersive visualizations of space missions and breathtaking scenes depicting the evolution of our solar system.
