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Activity Table
Family-friendly botanically themed arts and crafts activities. Included with Garden admission. Drop-in.
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Activity Table
Family-friendly botanically themed arts and crafts activities. Included with Garden admission. Drop-in. No programs October 14 & 28, or Dec 2.
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Prototyping Lab
Museum visitors prototype new design and engineering ideas for activities in the museum’s Design Lab. November 3, 10 & 17, December 1, 8 & 15, 2018
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Holiday A Cappella
Celebrate the holiday spirit and listen to a varied mix of holiday music, both familiar and new, and other fresh, popular, and alternative music sung by a cappella musicians. While you are in the Visitor Center, do some holiday shopping and enjoy refreshments.
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Nature Walks with Bradley Klein: WInter Nature Walk 2
The Garden may seem to sleep during the short days of midwinter, but there are clues to the survival strategies of both plants and animals if you know where to look for them. Join for a winter nature walk 1/6 and 2/3. Meet at Magnolia Plaza by building steps.
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E-Waste Recycling Event
Responsibly dispose of all of your unwanted or broken gadgets! In partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center. Drop-off location: QBG Parking Garden at 42-80 Crommelin Street. Learn which items are accepted following the link here.
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February Break Discovery Days
Explore habitats from around the world and hands-on science fun during the midwinter school break. Explore the lush conservatories on scavenger hunts, listen to stories, and pot up a plant to take home. Activities are the same each day.
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February Break Family Programs: 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. Drop-in.
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Music in the Garden: Quintet of the Americas
Quintet of the Americas is one of the longest-running wind quintets in North America.
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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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Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
Every day we perceive the world around us through our senses. In this highly experiential exhibition, explore 11 funhouse-like spaces that dare you to trust your senses—then show you how what we perceive is not simply a window into the world around us but a product of our brains.
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Unseen Oceans
Experience an ocean you never imagined. Enter a sensory world of the ocan at night and discover the fluorescent secrets of undersea animals and explore the dreamatic undersea landscape of the deep ocean.
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Pondlife Exhibit
This multimedia exhibition by scientist and filmmaker Sally Warring combines art and biology in an exploration of the microbial communities in the ponds and waterways at the Garden.
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Penguin Feedings
Our black-footed penguins bray loudly to each other during their daily feedings. It’s one way they strengthen their pair bonds, along with preening each other and rubbing bills. Feeding times depend on animal needs. Check the daily schedule in the Main Lobby.
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