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Learning About Animals & Plants With the Kids

In New York City

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American Museum of Natural History

Sharks Exhibit

200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Come face-to-face with life-sized models of sharks and envision their strength and power. Older than dinosaurs, and more threatened than threatening, sharks are truly spectacular

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American Museum of Natural History

The Butterfly Conservatory

200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Mingle with hundreds of fluttering butterflies among blooming tropycal flowers and lush vegetation. There are so many butterflies! Some of them may even rest on you if you stand still

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American Museum of Natural History

Hall of North American Mammals

200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Learn about brown bears in their natural habitat in Alaska by having the ability to observe two huge stunnigly restored brown bears that will keep your heart beat racing

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American Museum of Natural History

Extinct and Endangered

200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Teens, Young Kids

Experience these tiny animals' outsized impact on our planet through the uniquely powerful macrophotography of Levon Biss, which highlights 40 incredible but imperiled species from specimens from the Museum's world-class research collection in large-format photographs, some as large as 4.5 by 8 feet

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American Museum of Natural History

Serengeti

200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Experience one of nature's most spectacular events: the annual migration in the Serengeti on a 40-foot-high, 60-foot-wide screen. Nestled in northern Tanzania and spanning into the southern edge of Kenya, the vast plains of the Serengeti host one of the largest migrations of mammals on the planet

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Libery Science Center

Bees to Bots

222 Jersey City Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

In Bees to Bots, peer inside our honey bee hive to see real bees at work, busily building honeycomb and making honey. Then discover innovative ways that scientists are studying bees

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Libery Science Center

Our Hudson Home

222 Jersey City Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Discover the importance of the Hudson river as a means of travel and commerce, a source of food, and a place to play

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Libery Science Center

Wild About Animals

222 Jersey City Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

Cotton-top tamarin monkeys. Naked mole rats. Red-footed tortoises. A rose hair tarantula! Liberty Science Center is home to 100+ fascinating animal species. Come meet many of them!

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Brooklyn Children's Museum

Neighborhood Nature

145 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids

Examine the many ecologies found in your own Brooklyn backyard. This exhibit introduces children to life sciences through hands-on play in the community cork garden, close looking and listening in the Museum's diorama habitats, lounging at the beach and through exploring the intersection of the natural and human worlds.

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Brooklyn Museum

Bonsai Museum

990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids, Teens

The Garden's world-class bonsai collection is displayed in the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum. Some of the trees are well over a century old, with many still cultivated in their original containers

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Children Museum of Manhattan

Adventures With Dora and Diego

212 W 83rd St, New York, NY 10024, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids

Learn facts about animals and their habitats by helping Diego rescue animals in trouble. Explore a cave, a beach and the rainforest, or rub animal footprints, even build a Spectacled Bear's nest!

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New York Hall Of Science

Wild Minds

47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368, USA

Suitable for

Young Kids

Through videos, games, and displays, discover the similarities between human and animal cognition. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Wild Minds is a project led by the New York Hall of Science in partnership with the Staten Island Zoo, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Oregon Zoo, the California Science Center, Santa Barbara Zoo, Science Central, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, COSI (Center of Science and Industry), and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.