On Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through late February: Glide into the holiday season on our indoor Glice rink, get a scoop of Alkemy Ice Cream, and color in our Queens Winter Wonderland wall. Timed tickets can be purchased on site or are included in a NYSCI Plus Pass, which can be purchased online. Members get discounted tickets.

Closing Soon: Open through end of 2024!

Building Imagination: Brick by Brick is a bi-lingual exhibition that has five, fun focus areas: Imaginative Play; Underwater; Transportation/ Neighborhood; Cloud City; and Garden/Underground.

Included with General Admission. This exhibit closes by 4:40-4:45 each day.

Connected Worlds immerses visitors in a fantastically animated world that explores how ecological systems relate and depend on one another to maintain balance and health. Visitors use their own actions, gestures, movements, and decisions to guide the flow of resources in this ever-changing environment. Visitors at NYSCI get to practice using the tools,skills and big ideas that will help shape the future of our world.

Connected Worlds is made possible with generous support from The JPB Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Google Inc., and The Nasdaq Educational Foundation, Inc. as well collaborations with Design I/O, Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Yale University’s Cognitive Science Department, New York University’s Games for Learning Institute, game designer, programmer and conceptual artist Zach Gage, and Big Show Construction Management.

Included with General Admission.

This exhibit closes at 5 pm!

The Big Bubble Experiment encourages experimentation and discovery through joyful bubble play. Activate the science behind bubbles by blowing, stretching, popping, and looking closely. The exhibition offers a variety of tools and methods for exploring bubble solution. Prompts can help you get started, but all experiences are open-ended. They invite you to use your bubble insights, ask questions, work with others, try out new ideas, and follow your own playful, sudsy path. This exhibit was made possible with generous support from PepsiCo R&D and bubly.

Included with General Admission. This exhibit closes between 4:30-4:45 each day.

Powering the City invites visitors to discover how energy is generated and distributed to power our lives. Through a series of interactive experiences, visitors will learn about the city’s power grid and the ways we all contribute to and use it, while also exploring principles of energy conservation and energy transformation. At NYSCI, visitors can connect the science you learn in school with the experiences in your everyday life.

Powering the City is made possible with generous support from National Grid and Con Edison. Included with General Admission.

This exhibit closes at 5 pm!

Design Lab invites you to take risks, share ideas, and get new perspectives on engineering and design through design challenges, raw materials, and opportunities to engineer solutions to real-world problems. Being a scientist or engineer isn’t just about what you know - it’s about what you know how to do.

Design Lab is made possible with generous support from Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg, the Verizon Foundation, the Golden Family Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Xerox Foundation.

Included with General Admission. Some pods in Design Lab close at 4:45pm. On weekends the last pod closes at 5:00pm.

Small Discoveries invites you into the amazing world of microorganisms. Gain experience using multiple magnification instruments to study microbes, including large lens microscopes, magnifying glasses, projections, and life-size models you can touch. We strive to make the invisible parts of science visible and accessible, enabling everyone to understand the impact of even the smallest things on our health and the environment.

This exhibit closes at 5 pm!

NYSCI Explainers put on a dynamic show of interactive science presentations.

Mathematica has a new look!

The exhibit invites visitors to discover the range of ways that mathematical ideas can be expressed. It presents a time-tested collection of exhibits designed by the legendary designers Charles and Ray Eames, to share the excitement that mathematicians find in pursuing the hidden patterns that mathematics describes. Visitors will engage with a combination of hands-on activities and dynamic models to explore how mathematics has shaped so many facets of our contemporary world, from the devices we carry in our hands to changes in social sciences, art, music, and architecture. NYSCI offers visitors a chance to explore the interconnected nature of math and science and how they work together to lead us toward new discoveries.

Included with General Admission. This exhibit closes at 5 pm.

Maker Space invites you to use real tools and re-imagine everyday materials in exciting ways. We encourage experimentation, open-ended exploration, and believe that making mistakes is a great way to learn! The activities here rotate seasonally and sometimes include
members-only options:

September - November: Fiber Art
December - February: Carving
March-May: Electronics
June- August: Sustainable Sewing

Fall Hours: Closed Tuesday-Thursday. Open for Community hours on Fridays from 2pm-5pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11am-4pm.

Included with General Admission.

Check out STEM-themed films that inspire, delight, and educate. Check here to see what's now showing and times.

All movies are included in the NYSCI Plus Pass or you can purchase admission to each one separately.

Human Plus invites visitors to discover how all kinds of people use innovative technologies and engineering practices to help themselves and others achieve their goals, from everyday routines to lifelong dreams. Visitors will explore how different kinds of technologies can be used to supplement and enhance human abilities and overcome physical obstacles. NYSCI is a place where people of all abilities can succeed in pursuing their curiosity.

Included with General Admission. Human Plus is made possible with support from the National Science Foundation.

This exhibit closes at 5 pm!

Preschool Place is the ideal space for young learners and their grown ups to explore, discover and build! Here our youngest visitors can experience multi-sensory activities in a safe, protected area.

Included with General Admission. For children 6 and under, with their grownups. Last entry is at 4:30pm and the space closes at 4:45pm for daily cleaning.

Rocket Park Mini Golf reveals that the same laws of motion and gravity that guide the path of a spaceship control the motion of golf balls here on Earth. In this nine-hole miniature golf course, players explore key science concepts such as propulsion, gravity, escape velocity, launch window, gravitational assist, and more.

Included with a NYSCI Plus Pass or can be added as an add-on. Closes at 4:30pm daily.

Rocket Park invites visitors to explore real NASA artifacts including a Gemini-Titan II Rocket, a Mercury-Atlas D Rocket, and a Saturn V F-1 Engine. These artifacts date back to the 1964-65 World’s Fair, when these were state of the art vehicles for space exploration. The space age was less than ten years old when rockets like these powered incredible missions to outer space. Visitors will learn about the history of these vehicles as well as the United States’ mission to reach the moon. At NYSCI, visitors are inspired to break boundaries and reach for ambitious goals.

Included with General Admission.

The Science Playground offers visitors of all ages and abilities an opportunity to explore the scientific principles of motion, balance, sound, sight, sun, wind, simple machines, and more!

Included with NYSCI Plus Admission or as an individual add-on, weather permitting. Closes at 4:45pm.

Recognizing Excellence in Photography Through the Microscope

On view at NYSCI through February 4, 2025

This exhibition is the premier photomicrography competition in the world – now in its 50^th year. Striking images show artistry, scientific acumen and technical proficiency in regard to images taken through the microscope.

In the 2024 competition, some 2,100 photos were submitted from 80 countries and then judged by six experts in both photography and science. First place winner was Dr. Bruno Cisterna with the assistance of Dr. Eric Vitriol for the image “Differentiated mouse brain tumor cells (actin, microtubules, and nuclei)." Both were from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Second place winner image: "Electrical arc between a pin and a wire" by Dr.Marcel Clemens from Verona, Veneto, Italy, seen here.