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Feb 11, 2012

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Hayden Planetarium

American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
(between 77th and 81st Streets)
New York, NY  10024
Tel: (212) 769-5200
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$12.50 members, $14.00 children, $18.00 seniors, students, $24.00 adults.
These prices are for the Space Theater. The Big Bang Theater is free with museum admission.

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Ongoing

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Showtimes Mon-Fri, every half-hour, 10:30 am-4:30 pm except for Wed, when shows begin at 11 am. Sat & Sun, every half-hour, 10:30am - 5 pm.
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 in its upper half and the Big Bang Theater in its lower hemisphere.

The 429-seat Space Theater features Journey to the Stars narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. The show launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including the Earth's Sun. This theater experience was created by the museum’s astrophysicists, scientific visualization and media production experts with the cooperation of NASA and more than 40 scientists from the United States and abroad.

In the Big Bang Theater, visual and audio effects recreate how, according to scientists, the universe began with a burst of radiant energy from a point smaller than a grain of sand.
  • Directions: Subway: B, C to 81st Street - Museum of Natural History

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American Museum of Natural History

The 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

  • Double Feature of Space Shows

    Ongoing In Passport to the Universe, see close views of star fields and planets and experience an exhilarating flight into the Orion Nebula, out of our galaxy and deep into intergalactic space. The Search for Life: Are We Alone? asks if there are life forms beyond planet Earth.

  • Beyond Planet Earth

    Sat, Nov 19, 2011 – Sun, Aug 12, 2012 Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration offers a vision of the future of space travel as it boldly explores our next steps in our solar system and beyond.

  • Highway of an Empire: The Great Inca Road

    Ongoing Over 35 photographs feature the 25,000 miles of roads and trails that the Incas built six centuries ago in South America.

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