American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the most famous attractions in New York City. Included in both packages below is a spectacular new Hayden Planetarium Space Show, Dark Universe. Dark Universe takes you through the recent dramatic advances in our knowledge of the universe and explores what’s to come in the future of cosmology. Viewers will gaze up at the bright Milky Way—and plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere with a probe from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Through an extremely detailed, never-before-seen visualization based on new scientific data, the audience will experience how dark matter—an invisible form of matter—shapes galaxies. You will also delve into the mysteries of dark energy, the force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
Location
79th Street and Central Park West
Hours of Operation
The Museum is open daily, 10:00 a.m.—5:45 p.m. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Pkg 1 - General Admission + 1
Includes admission to the Museum and Rose Center for Earth and Space plus one Special Exhibition, Imax film or Hayden Planetarium Space Show. Call 212-769-5100 or visit amhn.org for information on current special exhibitions and Imax.
The following package prices INCLUDE discount admission to this attraction and discounted round-trip ferry travel to our Midtown W. 39th St. terminal. (Our free connecting shuttles take you to or near this attraction.)
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COMBO Price |
| Adult |
$40.00 |
| Child 0-1 |
Free |
| Child 2-5 |
$16.00 |
Child 6-11
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$26.00 |
| Senior/College |
$35.00 |
Pkg 2 - General Admission + All
See everything and save-Includes admission to the Museum and Rose Center for Earth and Space, plus all Special Exhibitions, Imax film, and the Hayden Planetarium Space Show. Call 212-769-5100 or visit amnh.org for information on current special exhibitions and Imax.
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AMNH COMBO Price |
| Adult |
$48.00 |
| Child 0-1 |
Free |
| Child 2-5 |
$22.00 |
| Child 6-11 |
$32.00 |
| Senior/College |
$41.00 |
All sales are final. No refunds, exchanges or replacements.
Special Exhibitions and Films
Explore human cultures, the natural world, and the universe with a visit to one of the world’s preeminent natural history museums! Meet the Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, in the Museum’s fossil halls. See world-renowned dioramas, the 94-foot-long blue whale, and the stunning Rose Center for Earth and Space, featuring an 87-foot-diameter sphere that appears to float inside a glass cube.
Space Show – Hayden planetarium
Dark Universe: narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Celebrate the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the structure and history of the universe and our place in it—and to new frontiers for exploration.
Giant Screen Films – 3D & 2D showings
Earthflight: September 15, 2017–March 8, 2018
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett, Earthflight is a totally immersive experience, taking the audience on an incredible flight across the world on the wings of birds. Filmed in four continents and 11 countries, the film took four years to make.
Amazon Adventure: March 9─September 14, 2018
Amazon Adventure tells the science adventure story of Henry Bates and his extraordinary 11-year journey through the Amazon as a young man in the 1850s. Although unknown to the general public, he made crucial contributions to evolutionary biology. While identifying 8,000 species new to science, he discovered the phenomenon of “Batesian” mimicry and provided the “beautiful proof” for what is widely considered the most important scientific explanation of the development of life on Earth – natural selection.
Special Exhibitions
Our Senses: An Immersive Experience: November 20, 2017–January 6, 2019
We get to know our world through some or all of our senses—sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste—but they’re just parts of a much larger puzzle. The highly experiential exhibition Our Senses delves into how our brains work with sensory organs to shape our perceptions and reveals how, until recently in our evolutionary history, humans have been oblivious to nature’s other crucial signals, including UV light, infrared sounds, and electrical fields.
Unseen Oceans: March 12, 2018–January 6, 2019
Oceans explores our blue planet’s defining feature—the world ocean—as revealed through 21st-century technology. Visitors to the exhibition will meet the elusive giants of the sea, including whales, sharks, giant squid; sink beneath the waves in a virtual submersible theater; and marvel at the vivid fluorescence displayed by marine creatures but invisible to us . . . until now. And they’ll leave with a deeper awareness that the future of the planet depends on the future of the ocean.
The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter: October 7, 2017–May 28, 2018
This exhibition, an annual favorite, features up to 500 live, free-flying tropical butterflies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The butterflies are housed in a vivarium that approximates their natural habitat, includes live flowering plants that serve as nectar sources, and features controlled artificial light, temperature, and humidity.
Inside You: June 24, 2017–June 16, 2019
Inside You explores the rapidly evolving science that is revolutionizing how we view human health. Our bodies are home to many trillions of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms collectively called the human microbiome. In any human, microbial genes outnumber the genes in human DNA by more than 100 to one. Included in General admission