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Free Winter Hours at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Experience the serenity and wonder of the Garden with free weekday admission and programs for the entire family!
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Art in the Garden: Recollections: Highlights from Our Permanent Collection
See select works from the first ten years of exhibitions in QBG’s art gallery. On view January 17 through March 22, 2020. Visitor & Administration Building Gallery.
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Storytime & Craft
Bring your little gardeners and nature lovers to QBG for a relaxing winter afternoon featuring nature-inspired stories, followed by a botanically-themed craft activity. Recommended for ages 10 and under.
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First Discoveries for Toddlers
Calling all explorers up to 5 years old (and their caregivers)! Learn how plants and animals keep warm during the winter in the Discovery Garden. Touch and smell winter plants, read a story, or create a craft to take home. Activities rotate weekly. Free with Garden admission.
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Garden Creatures Community Art Project
Drop in to work on whimsical collaborative sculptures of flowers mushrooms and insects to decorate the new entrance and fence around QBG’s Children’s Garden. Each Saturday in March will feature a step in the project! This family-friendly activity involves paper maché and paint.
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Children's Garden Family Day
Get your hands dirty with planting activities and garden crafts. See how worms wiggle, touch and discover the QBG plant collection, create your own tasty and healthy trail mix, plant your own seedling in the Children’s Garden, and do a garden-wide scavenger hunt.
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Art in the Garden: Recollections Closing Reception
Meet the artists featured in Queens Botanical Garden’s latest exhibit, “Recollections: Highlights from Our Permanent Collection,” and view the select works from the first ten years of exhibitions in QBG’s Art Gallery. Registration required. Drop-ins welcome upon availability.
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Compost Giveback
The NYC Compost Project is giving away FREE compost! Please come prepared to fill and carry bags of compost. We provide shovels and empty 7.5 gallon bags. All registrants must attend a brief info session about using compost. Limit of four bags of compost. Registration required.
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Storytime & Craft: Spring Blossoms
Bring your little nature lover for blossom-themed stories and make accompanying botanically themed crafts. Recommended for age 10 and under (accompanied by an adult).
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Seasonal Tour: Spring Blossoms
Go on a tour highlighting early spring blossoms!
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Spring Break Activities for Kids!
Visit our different nature themed activity stations, where children can create a different botanical craft each day and get their hands dirty as they sift and search through QBG’s Exploration Station. For all ages. Drop-in.
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Tree Giveaway with New York Restoration Project
Register for a free tree thanks to New York Restoration Project (NYRP).
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Botanical Immigrants Tour
Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week and join our botanical immigrants tour to learn about the global origins of plants within our collections and how they’re used in different cultures throughout the world. Rain or shine. Register in advance. Drop-ins welcome upon availability.
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Arbor Fest: Branch, Blooms, & Bugs
Give a nod to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day at Queens Botanical Garden’s 10th annual Arbor Fest! This year’s event will include live music, nature-themed crafts, garden demonstrations, interactive experiences, performances, and more.
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Storytime & Craft: Spring Flowers
Bring your little nature lover for flower-themed stories and make accompanying botanically themed crafts. Recommended for age 10 and under (accompanied by an adult).
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Tulip Tour
See and learn about the tens of thousands of tulips and bulb flowers in our collection. Registration required. Drop-ins welcome upon availability.
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Music in the Garden: Quintet of the Americas
QBG welcomes back the Quintet of the Americas for their ninth annual concert at the Garden. Registration required. Drop-in upon availability. Limited seating.
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UA Science Expo
EXPO is our end of year celebration where Urban Advantage students from all borough come and present their projects.
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Nature Club
Join us for FREE sessions with the Bronx Zoo Nature Club! We will host monthly sessions at the Zoo and in nearby parks, connecting families back to nature through unstructured, free-play exploration.
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T. rex: The Ultimate Predator
Meet the entire tyrannosaur superfamily and reveal the amazing story of the most iconic dinosaur in the world through stunning life-sized models, fossils and casts, engaging interactives, and an immersive multiplayer virtual reality experience developed for this exhibition.
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The Butterfly Conservatory
Mingle with up to 500 live, free-flying tropical butterflies. Adult butterflies are wonderfully diverse in shape, size, and color. Active during the day, they live almost everywhere around the world, from Arctic tundra to tropical rain forests.
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Conservatory Seasonal Highlights Tour
Tour the exotic flora of tropical, desert, and Mediterranean climates without leaving Brooklyn. Meet at the Conservatory Entrance.
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Garden Apprentice Program Application Deadline
The Garden Apprentice Program (GAP) at BBG is a great way for teens to learn about urban agriculture and the environment while working in our public garden. Apprentices can work their way up the four-tier program, potentially earning a paid position as a Tier 4 apprentice.
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Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation
Experience the molten worlds that have helped create the landscapes we know, though an adrenaline-filled trip across the globe.
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