The soaring four-story Rotunda, designed in the Beaux-Arts style and featuring Henry, our iconic African Bush Elephant, provides a spectacular setting for standing receptions or seated dinners. Host up to 2,500 guests by expanding your event into our many exhibition halls.
Dine under a 45-foot-long North Atlantic right whale and explore this large and complex ecosystem – from the deepest reaches of the ocean to the microscopic life underfoot at the beach.
Join a giraffe and zebra at the watering hole and graze on the buffet as you wander through four continents featuring an incredible diversity of mammals.
Sip champagne and gaze at the Hope Diamond, the largest-known blue diamond in the world. This exhibition features 2,500 gems, crystals and minerals for your viewing pleasure.
Connect with your distant ancestors and learn about the major milestones in the origins of human beings. Journey through 6 million years of stories of survival and extinction in our family tree.
An elegant, classically inspired auditorium that features a domed ceiling of original Guastavino tiles from 1910, Baird Auditorium is equipped with a sound and video system, film projection capabilities and a 25’ x 14’ stage.
Travel through ancient ecosystems, experience the evolution of plant and animal life, and get up close with some 700 fossil specimens, including an Alaskan palm tree, early insects, reptiles and mammals, and dramatically posed giants like Tyrannosaurus rex, Diplodocus, and the woolly mammoth.
