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Worlds Beyond Earth
Narrated by Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, the new planetarium show explores worlds that share our solar system and the unique conditions that make like on Earth possible.
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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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February Break Discovery Days
Explore habitats from around the world and have hands-on science fun during the midwinter school break. Families can learn together inside BBG’s Steinhardt Conservatory with Discovery Docents. Activities are the same each day, but feel free to come for a repeat visit.
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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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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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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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Holiday Train Show
Marvel at model trains zipping through an enchanting display of more than 175 famous New York landmarks (the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, and other favorites) each re-created from natural materials such as birch bark, acorns, and cinnamon sticks.
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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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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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