May 24, 2012
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The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter
Central Park West at 79th Street
(between 77th and 81st Streets)
New York, NY 10024
Tel: (212) 769-5200
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Dates
Sat, Oct 8, 2011 – Sun, May 27, 2012Hours
Mon – Sun: 10 am – 5:45 pmClosed Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The Butterfly Conservatory is a re-creation of a tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies.
Stroll along a winding pathway surrounded by the varied leaves of tropical plants and trees and a riot of vibrant blossoms, including Pentas and Ixora. Powerful halide lamps shine down from the ceiling, simulating the sunlight that streams through a rainforest. Visitors outside the vivarium can watch through translucent walls as monarchs, zebra longwings, paper kites, and other butterfly species flutter among people and plants.
The Conservatory’s butterflies come from farms in Florida, Costa Rica, Kenya, Thailand, Malaysia, Ecuador, andA ustralia. Among the included species are iridescent blue morpho butterflies, striking scarlet swallowtails, large owl butterflies and beautiful green birdwings.
- Directions: Subway: B, C to 81st Street - Museum of Natural History
About this Organization
American Museum of Natural HistoryThe largest natural history museum in the world has a mission commensurately monumental in scope. Permanent hall exhibitions focus on dinosaurs, mammals, ocean life, geology and more. The Rose Center for Earth and Space explores the entire universe.
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American Museum of Natural History Listings
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Always on View at the American Museum of Natural History
Ongoing Dinosaurs, meteorites and gems, mammals preserved in realistic dioramas, ocean life and exhibition halls that explore the world’s traditional cultures are just some of the scores of subjects on view 363 days a year.
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Ongoing This space show in the Hayden Planetarium is narrated by actress Whoopi Goldberg and lets visitors experience the life and death of the stars in the night sky.
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Ongoing Dominating the Rose Center is the Hayden Sphere, which features the world's largest virtual reality simulator. Weighing four million pounds and measuring 87 feet in diameter, the Hayden Sphere houses the Space Theater-currently showing Journey to the Stars, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg-in its upper half and the Big Bang Theater in its lower hemisphere.