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Bird Walks: A Celebration of Fall Migration
Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with expert bird guide, Debbie Becker. Tours introduce visitors to the diverse bird species present at NYBG during the late summer and fall months, highlighting plants that attract and sustain them.
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Christmas in the Garden
Get into the holiday spirit with fun for the whole family! Christmas in the Garden returns to Queens Botanical Garden with live musical performances, photos with Santa (fee required), tree lighting, holiday crafts, and blowout sales at QBG Shop!
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Kwanzaa Festival
Experience musical and live-drawing performances at the Museum’s annual Kwanzaa festival, a celebration of African American heritage based on the seven core principles known as Nguzo Saba, which promote unity, culture, and community development.
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E-Waste Recycling Event
Responsibly dispose of all of your unwanted or broken gadgets! Hosted in partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center. Learn which items are accepted by clicking here: https://www.lesecologycenter.org/programs/ewaste/ewaste-faq/ Drop-off location: QBG Parking Garden.
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Lunar New Year Celebration
Celebrate the Year of the Rat at QBG with crafts, performances, and activities for the whole family! Welcome the New Year with a plant from our Lucky Plant sale!
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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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Compost Giveback
The NYC Compost Project Hosted by Queens Botanical Garden is giving away FREE compost! Staff will be present to assist but please come prepared to fill and carry out bags of compost. We will provide shovels and empty 7.5 gallon sandbags.
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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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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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Space Show: Dark Universe
The Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the structure and history of the universe and our place in it- and to new frontiers for exploration. Check website for times.
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The Titanosaur
The Museum added a must see exhibit to its famous Fossil Halls: a cast of a 122 ft long dinosaur.This species is so new that it hasn’t yet been named by the paleontologists who found it. Scientists think this dinosaur, part of a group known as titanosaurs, weighed about 70 tons.
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Sackler Educational Lab Weekend Drop-In Sessions
Stop by the Sackler Educational Lab anytime from noon to 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays to talk to a scientist, learn about the latest discoveries in human evolution, handle fossil casts, look through a microscope, and see a real human brain.
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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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Discovery Room
Enjoy an interactive gateway to museum wonders through a hands-on, behind the scenes look at an array of artifacts, specimens, puzzles, and scientific challenges. This event is open to children ages 5 – 12.
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