Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:30 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 1:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 2, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 10:30 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The Sant Ocean Hall
Ongoing Tours & Activities
An ocean scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Year-Round:
Most Wed: 1 PM
Note
- On the third Wednesday of each month, a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist is in the exhibition to talk with visitors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, Center. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Expert Is In: How Bugs Work - A Survey of Insect Physiology
One-Time Events
Far from being the simplistic animals many think them to be, insects share many of the same physiological traits of more “advanced” animals, such as vertebrates. They have many unique adaptations as well. While they may individually lack the brains and brawn of the typical mammal, they have managed to succeed in every conceivable environment on the planet. Join Butterfly Pavilion Educator Eric Wenzel to learn more about "how bugs work.".
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Insect Zoo, 2nd floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 1:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Thursday, June 20, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Thursday, June 20, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:30 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Scientists stationed within the exhibition discuss their work, show collection objects and specimens, and answer visitors' questions about human origins.
Year-Round: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month: 12 Noon-2 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, 1st Floor, Northwest Wing. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 1:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Butterfly Habitat Garden Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Join our knowledgeable horticulturist, who gives discusses some of the plants in the four habitats of the Butterfly Garden: wetlands, meadow, wood's edge, and backyard. Pick up some tips for attracting butterflies to your own garden.
June 6-September 26, 2013: Every Thursday: 2 PM, weather permitting
Note
- No tours on federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Smithsonian Gardens. Event Location: Meet at the sign at the Butterfly Garden entrance on Madison Dr. & 9th St. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Butterfly Habitat Garden.
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 2:00 PM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Friday, June 21, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Friday, June 21, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 10:30 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Highlights Tours
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docent who gives a tour of the highlights of the museum.
June 2013, Most Tues.-Fri.: 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
Notes
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
- No tours on most federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet in Rotunda, 1st floor, near information desk. Cost: Free; walk-in.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 1:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 21, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Saturday, June 22, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Saturday, June 22, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Genome Geek Is In: The Genome Zone
One-Time Events
Dr. Michael Stitzel talks with visitors about his work as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The 3 billion letters of our DNA alphabet (human genome) are found in each and every cell in our body. Only ~1.5% of these letters make proteins. The remaining DNA in each cell has been called the “dark matter” of the genome. Genomics is beginning to light up these shadowy regions. It turns out that a large portion of dark matter is functioning as molecular switches that control when, where, and how much gene product is made. Each cell type uses a different, unique portion of its 3 billion letters as switches to turn on specific genes and perform its function.
When Michael is not cheering on the Baltimore Ravens with his daughter, he is identifying these elements in the specialized sugar-sensing and insulin-releasing cells in our body and investigating how genetic differences in these molecular switches, combined with environmental stresses, lead to type 2 diabetes in the lab of Dr…
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: The Genome Zone, adjacent to Genome: Unlocking Life's Code, 2nd Floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Sunday, June 23, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Sunday, June 23, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Genome Geek Is In: The Genome Zone
One-Time Events
Dr. Lucie Low talks with visitors about her work as a neuroscientist studying chronic pain at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Dr. Catherine Bushnell’s lab. Her lab studies how chronic pain changes brain structure and function over time, and what kinds of cognitive and nonpharmacological interventions can prevent or reverse these changes. Her lab is also interested in how emotion and cognition influence pain processing.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: The Genome Zone, adjacent to Genome: Unlocking Life's Code, 2nd Floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Monday, June 24, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Monday, June 24, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Smithsonian Summer Camp: Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Laurasia
One-Time Events
Smithsonian Summer Camp: Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Laurasia, Mon.-Fri. June 24-28, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For children entering grades 4-6, Pelorosaurus, Craterosaurus Hylaeosaurus, and Yaverlandia are dinosuars of the Mesozoic period in Laurasia. Campers discover the animals and plants of Asia, Europe, and North America by completing a diorama board, painting a figure for Dinosaur Safari, and turining old CDs into a swamp, forest, or scrub terrain to take home. Through field trips, game stimulations, documentaries, and stories, campers are introduced to plate tectonics, species variation, and different plant types. Each camp session is led by two experienced instructors, who are assisted by two high school volunteers. Note that "Before" (8 to 9 a.m.) and "After" (4:30 to 6 p.m.) camps may also be available. A Smithsonian Summer Camp t-shirt is included in the registration fee.
Time Detail: Mon.-Fri. June 24-28, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: 1100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, D.C.
Monday, June 24, 2013, 9:30 AM.
For more info visit smithsonianassociates.org. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Monday, June 24, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 2, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The Sant Ocean Hall
Ongoing Tours & Activities
An ocean scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Year-Round:
Most Wed: 1 PM
Note
- On the third Wednesday of each month, a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist is in the exhibition to talk with visitors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, Center. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Thursday, June 27, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Thursday, June 27, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Butterfly Habitat Garden Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Join our knowledgeable horticulturist, who gives discusses some of the plants in the four habitats of the Butterfly Garden: wetlands, meadow, wood's edge, and backyard. Pick up some tips for attracting butterflies to your own garden.
June 6-September 26, 2013: Every Thursday: 2 PM, weather permitting
Note
- No tours on federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Smithsonian Gardens. Event Location: Meet at the sign at the Butterfly Garden entrance on Madison Dr. & 9th St. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Butterfly Habitat Garden.
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 2:00 PM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Friday, June 28, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Friday, June 28, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic
One-Time Events
Come join our discussion on a hot topic in human origins.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, One Species Worldwide Theater, 1st Floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.humanorigins.si.edu. Smithsonian Sleepovers
One-Time Events
Family Program: (Ages 8 to 12) Go on an interactive exploration of the museum, participate in hands-on crafts projects, and view the IMAX film Born to be Wild. Then roll out your sleeping bag and dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums! View more details.
Categories: After Five. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2012FY-Trumba-calend&tmssource=190358&performanceNumber=226273.
Friday, June 28, 2013, 7:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Saturday, June 29, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Saturday, June 29, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, June 29, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Sunday, June 30, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Sunday, June 30, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, June 30, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Monday, July 1, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Monday, July 1, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Smithsonian Summer Camp: From Foot to Flight
One-Time Events
Smithsonian Summer Camp: From Foot to Flight, Mon.-Wed. July 1-3, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For children entering grades 3-5, Follow the path that took humans from traveling by foot to traveling into space. At the Natural History Museum campers learn how humans and animals moved together. At the American History Museum, they see early trains in all their glory and consider what set the basic automobile in motion. Then they’re off to the Air and Space Museum to find out who was responsible for getting us into the air. Campers walk through a section of Skylab, study the International Space Station, and explore rockets that got us into space. Each camp session is led by two experienced instructors, who are assisted by two high school volunteers. Note that "Before" (8 to 9 a.m.) and "After" (4:30 to 6 p.m.) camps may also be available. A Smithsonian Summer Camp t-shirt is included in the registration fee.
Time Detail: Mon.-Wed. July 1-3, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: 1100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, D.C.
Monday, July 1, 2013, 9:30 AM.
For more info visit smithsonianassociates.org. Moth Matters Mondays
One-Time Events
Using digital interactives in conjunction with live specimens, visitors will learn with our educated staff all about the fascinating features of various species of moths, such as Atlas Moths and Sphinx moths!
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution, 2nd Floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo.
Monday, July 1, 2013, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Monday, July 1, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 2, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The Sant Ocean Hall
Ongoing Tours & Activities
An ocean scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Year-Round:
Most Wed: 1 PM
Note
- On the third Wednesday of each month, a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist is in the exhibition to talk with visitors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, Center. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Thursday, July 4, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Thursday, July 4, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Scientists stationed within the exhibition discuss their work, show collection objects and specimens, and answer visitors' questions about human origins.
Year-Round: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month: 12 Noon-2 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, 1st Floor, Northwest Wing. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 4, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Friday, July 5, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Friday, July 5, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Friday, July 5, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Friday, July 5, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 5, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 5, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 5, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Saturday, July 6, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Saturday, July 6, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Story time: Eye of the Whale by Jennifer O'Connell
One-Time Events
Come join us for a story time reading in the Discovery Room as the author of Eye of the Whale, Jennifer O'Connell, will read her story. This true story of courage and compassion is brought to life by stunning illustrations. You will be awed and humbled by the deep connections possible between humans and animals, and inspired to do all you can to help protect whales.
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation provided.
Book signing follows at 2pm in the Gallery Store on the ground floor.
Categories: Kids & Families. Performances. Shopping/Book Signing. Event Location: Discovery Room, 1st floor. Cost: Free.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Sunday, July 7, 2013.
Exhibit: The Evolving Universe
Exhibit Openings and Closings
Take a mind-bending journey with us from present-day Earth to the far reaches of space and the distant past—back to the beginning of the universe. Explore how stars and galaxies—even the universe itself—change from birth to maturity to death, much like living things on Earth. Full color photographs capture the awe-inspiring beauty of the cosmos as seen through high-powered terrestrial and orbiting telescopes. This exhibition is a collaborative effort with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
This is the last day to see this exhibit.
On view: Second Floor; October 21, 2011 – July 7, 2013. Venue: Natural History Museum.
Sunday, July 7, 2013.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Sunday, July 7, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents who will give a tour of the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to the Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 11:00 AM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 12:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Sant Ocean Hall Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Look for our friendly docents known as the Sant Ocean Hall Navigators who will give a tour of the the related exhibition.
Year-Round:
Most Sat. and Sun.: 11 AM and 2 PM,
Note
- Tours subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Meet at entrance to The Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, just off the Rotunda. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 2:00 PM.
Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Monday, July 8, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Monday, July 8, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Monday, July 8, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 2, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. The Scientist Is In: The Sant Ocean Hall
Ongoing Tours & Activities
An ocean scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Year-Round:
Most Wed: 1 PM
Note
- On the third Wednesday of each month, a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist is in the exhibition to talk with visitors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Sant Ocean Hall, 1st Floor, Center. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Thursday, July 11, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Thursday, July 11, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Butterfly Habitat Garden Tour
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Join our knowledgeable horticulturist, who gives discusses some of the plants in the four habitats of the Butterfly Garden: wetlands, meadow, wood's edge, and backyard. Pick up some tips for attracting butterflies to your own garden.
June 6-September 26, 2013: Every Thursday: 2 PM, weather permitting
Note
- No tours on federal holidays.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Smithsonian Gardens. Event Location: Meet at the sign at the Butterfly Garden entrance on Madison Dr. & 9th St. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Butterfly Habitat Garden.
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 2:00 PM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Natural History Museum Exhibition Interpreters/Navigators
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Museum volunteer interpreters welcome visitors, answer questions, and help visitors navigate exhibitions. Interpreters may be stationed in several of the following exhibitions at various times throughout the day, subject to interpreter availability:
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
, The Sant Ocean Hall
, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Various exhibitions; ask at the museum's info desks for today's locations and schedules. Continues: Repeats most days.
Friday, July 12, 2013.
IMAX Films and Planetarium Shows
Ongoing Tours & Activities
At the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, and its Udvar-Hazy Center, enjoy IMAX films related to that museum's collections and research. IMAX is the ultimate film experience; specially designed screens that are several stories high produce some of the most stunning visual images recorded.
At the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, you can also enjoy planetarium shows that give the sensation of zooming through the cosmos, enveloped in color-saturated moving images and spine-tingling sound.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Natural History Museum. Event Location: Respective museum's IMAX Theater and Air and Space's Einstein Planetarium. Cost: See Purchase Tickets link. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax.
Friday, July 12, 2013.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Butterfly Pavilion
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Regular Hours: Daily: 10:15 AM-5:30 PM; last timed ticket at 5 PM. Extended Hours through September 1, 2013: Call 1-877-932-4629 (toll-free) or 202-633-4629.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Exhibit, 2nd Floor, West. Cost: Tickets can be purchased in advance (see Purchase Tickets Web link below), or by phone at 202-633-4629 (IMAX) or 1-877-932-4629 (IMAX) (toll-free) (10 AM-5 PM), or in person on the day of your visit at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office or at any Smithsonian IMAX Box Office. For more information about the hours of operation, timed entry policy, ticket prices, group rates, etc. visit the Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution Web site.
Prices per ticket:
Adults $6
Seniors $5.50 (60+)
Children… Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=215878. Related Exhibition: Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:15 AM.
For more info visit www.butterflies.si.edu. Discovery Room
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The Discovery Room is a hands-on room for families with children and students. The room features activities using real museum objects and artifacts that allow visitors to explore the natural world at their own pace, guided by their own interests and sense of wonder. Visitors can look at fossils, skulls, shells, and minerals; use a microscope; try on costumes from around the world; and much more. Docents are available to assist and answer questions.
Entry Procedures:
• Individuals:
- For families with children and students. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Through September 1, 2013:
• Tues.- Sun.: 10:30 AM-3:30 PM.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, East Wing, near African Voices.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
, Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:30 AM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Live Tarantula Feedings
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Volunteers conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, work with live insects that visitors may touch and hold, and answer questions about the many-legged creatures that live in the Insect Zoo.
Year-Round:
Sat. and Sun.: 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, and 1:30 PM
, Tues.- Fri.: 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
Note
- Demonstrations offered unless otherwise posted.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: O. Orkin Insect Zoo, 2nd floor, West. Cost: Free; walk-in. Related Exhibition: Insect Zoo, O. Orkin.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Smithsonian Sleepovers
One-Time Events
Family Program: (Ages 8 to 12) Go on an interactive exploration of the museum, participate in hands-on crafts projects, and view the IMAX film Born to be Wild. Then roll out your sleeping bag and dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums! View more details.
Categories: After Five. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2012FY-Trumba-calend&tmssource=190358&performanceNumber=226274.
Friday, July 12, 2013, 7:00 PM.