Dinosaurs

Exhibitions

Dinosaur Hall

Step Into Our Award-winning Exhibition, and Enter the Age of Dinosaurs

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Dinosaur Lab

Watch real scientists prepare fossils every day.

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Events

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Mon

07

Oct

Three T-rex dinosaur skeletons in different sizes

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

1 pm

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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Tue

08

Oct

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

1 pm

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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Wed

09

Oct

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

1 pm

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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Thu

10

Oct

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

1 pm

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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Sat

12

Oct

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets. Our sensory-friendly performance provides a warm welcome to guests who need a little less stimulating environment and the opportunity to move around during the show.

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Stories

Stump the Paleontologist

What did dinosaurs do all day? How did they lay eggs on the ground without cracking them? How were dinosaurs created? Our Dinosaur Institute scientists answer visitors’ tricky, probing questions in this video.

Wonder Is in Our Bones

How giant fossils expand the dimensions of our imagination

Preparator works on large bone in the Dino Lab

Earth's Green Giant

Fossil bones of Gnatalie, the long-necked dinosaur soon to be on display in NHM's new wing, were prepared in the Dinosaur Lab.

Rectangular stone with Maya glyph depicting a man holding a cacao plant. Campeche, Mexico. AD 600-900.

A Virtual Chocolate-y Tour of the Collections

Explore the collections of the Natural History Museum through the lens of chocolate!

Year of the Dragon

Celebrate the 2024 Lunar New Year, Year of the Dragon, with highlights from the collection

Life reconstruction of fire at La Brea Tar Pits during the Pleistocene as bison are stuck during a wildfire

Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?

A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.