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When Lisa Gugenheim took the helm of the New York Hall of Science last year, she launched her tenure with the opening of CityWorks, a sweeping exhibition that makes the hidden systems of urban infrastructure tangible for visitors.

Scheduled to remain on display for 10 years, “CityWorks” began taking shape when practitioners and planners, Bartosz Bonczak among them, began meeting around a table on a regular basis with a wide cast of specialists, practitioners, and museum directors. Their individual areas of expertise spanned journalism, psychology, environmental protection, engineering, city government management, and other fields and disciplines. Also tapped by the museum for data and perspective were NYU’s professor of anthropology and environmental studies Robin Nagel, professor of civil and urban engineering and CUSP faculty member Deborah Laefer, and adjunct faculty member John Surico of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

The Queens Borough President’s Office is hosting its third annual Climate Expo on Saturday, Sept. 27. The event, which coincides with New York City’s Climate Week, will be held at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. 

A group of Queens cultural institutions shared major updates about upcoming performances and community events. 

Representatives of the Queens Theatre, Queens Botanical Garden, Queens Museum and New York Hall of Science gathered at the Queens Theatre Cabaret on Thursday, Sept. 18, located at 4 United Nations Ave, surrounding the theme of “A Park for All” to announce their arts offerings for the fall season. 

Have you ever heard from the sandhogs who dig the world's largest water tunnels, or listened to the workers who test New York City's drinking water talk about their day? What about a bodega cat? You can hear first-hand accounts (and meows) from these workers and more at CityWorks, a new exhibit at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens, which explores the often unseen networks of urban infrastructure that make a city run.

More than 100 Queens students of all ages flocked to the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) for a live Earth-to-space conversation with NASA astronaut Dr. Jonny Kim, who is aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as part of an event organized by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng.

A group of students in Queens had the rare chance to speak to an astronaut in space on Friday.

From Vital City: A new exhibition helps New Yorkers appreciate how the city is held together.

From the New York Times: A new exhibit at the New York Hall of Science celebrates cities by letting visitors get hands-on with urban infrastructure.

NOW OPEN: New NYSCI Exhibit Showcases Women in the Space Age

CityWorks is a brand-new, 6,000-square-foot exhibit that is packed with interactive fun and brings the behind-the-scenes workings of NYC to life, including buses, subways, parks, trash, tunnels, and more.

A new interactive exhibit at the New York Hall of Science helps visitors understand how cities work, focusing on the systems of the five boroughs.

The New York Hall of Science today celebrated the 75^th anniversary of the founding of the National Science Foundation by hosting a day-long event to highlight the critical role that the National Science Foundation has played in supporting the development of innovative exhibits, programs, and educational resources for learners of all ages.

The New York Hall of Science in Corona opened its largest interactive exhibition in more than a decade on Saturday, May 3. The exhibition explores the often invisible inner workings of the built urban environment.

The New York Hall of Science in Corona opened its largest interactive exhibition in more than a decade on Saturday, May 3.

On Saturday, May 3rd the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of CityWorks, a new permanent exhibit that explores the often invisible inner workings of the built urban environment.

Water, sewer, transportation — all aspects of New Yorkers’ lives they may take for granted. Behind the scenes is a massive system that is run by many hard-working municipal employees.

The New York Hall of Science’s CityWorks exhibit is one of a growing number of museum-led efforts to help residents understand and shape urban planning decisions.

New York City Students Lead Live Conversation with NASA Astronaut Jeannette Epps from the International Space Station.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Science Board is delighted to recognize two organizations for their extraordinary efforts to increase participation and diversity in the science and engineering fields.

Washington, D.C. – The STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA), a national effort galvanizing stakeholders to achieve equity and excellence in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) by 2050, announced a milestone of more than 100 partners since its launch at the White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence in December 2022.

The interactive exhibits — “Powering the City,” “Small Discoveries” and “Human Plus” — are featured as part of the museum’s full reopening, which officially took place in October.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez helped secure $750,000 in federal funding for an early childhood space science initiative at the New York Hall of Science.

The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) welcomes back families as they re-open on Saturday, October 15 featuring a series of new, interactive exhibits including Powering the City and Human Plus.

The New York Hall of Science is fully reopening this weekend after sections of the museum were flooded and destroyed by Hurricane Ida last year.

More than one year after Hurricane Ida flooded the museum, the New York Hall of Science gears up for a reopening.

CORONA, Queens (NY 1) — The New York Hall of Science reopened on October 15, 2022.

CORONA, Queens (WABC 7) — The New York Hall of Science reopened on October 15, 2022.

CORONA, Queens (Fox5) — The New York Hall of Science reopened on October 15, 2022.

CORONA, Queens (NBC 4) — The New York Hall of Science reopened on October 15, 2022.

CORONA, Queens (PIX11) — The New York Hall of Science is fully reopening on Saturday, having finally repaired all damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021.

WASHINGTON, DC – Margaret Honey, President and CEO of the New York Hall of Science, joined other education leaders to participate in The White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) on MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 AT 10AM ET.

Honey: Focusing on people, resources and creative evaluation tools can address the anemic way in which American schools teach science

Crain's coverage on the need for green infrastructure in NYC, which includes thoughts from NYSCI CEO Margaret Honey after Hurricane Ida flooded the museum.

Beautiful, buoyant, beguiling bubbles are coming back to the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens as of Friday, November 17. The beloved bubbles exhibit, which has been closed for five years, will return bigger, better and bubblier than ever.

Have you ever wondered why bubbles are so colorful? Or why a bubble is round? And just what exactly is inside of a bubble? The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) has the answers as it opens its new sudsy exhibit - The Big Bubble Experiment – on Friday, November 17^th.

In this feature article, you can learn about the various programs offered by the Alan J. Friedman Center for the Development of Young Scientists.

Roger Clark reported live from The Happiness Experiment the morning of our reopening, Jul 8, 2021.

Coverage of NYSCI’s reopening and The Happiness Experiment.

Coverage of NYSCI’s reopening and new exhibit, The Happiness Experiment.

QNS.com previewed The Happiness Experiment before NYSCI reopened to the general public on July 8, 2021.

NYSCI’s annual holiday event, ReMake the Holidays, is highlighted in this weekly column about kids activities in the city.

NY1’s Stephanie Simon spends some time with GingerBread Lane creator Jon Lovitch and his 15-month-old daughter Cecilia.

Kids learn in very different ways. From tinkering and testing; to creating and performing; to working collaboratively or by themselves, the future of science education is moving beyond the classroom and into scientific principles grounded in familiar and relevant concepts.

Together with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), we created a multi-faceted laboratory where learners of all ages, backgrounds and skillsets get hands-on with science principles and walk away more knowledgeable, confident and curious.

Read about NYSCI’s GingerBread Lane, plus get some tips for building and decorating your own gingerbread house making.

QPTV interviews Julie Wosk, the curator of Imagining Women in Space, a photography exhibit currently at NYSCI.

Newsday talks to GingerBread Lane creator Jon Lovitch in this fun video.

Read about Nathan Sawaya, the artist behind The Art of the Brick.

In their weekly column of things to do in NYC, New York Times says you may want “consider replacing Thanksgiving with ‘Bugsgiving,'” referring to NYSCI’s Holiday Food Science Festival. They also note that “die-hard sugar fans won’t want to miss the opening of GingerBread Lane…”

Thrillist highlights our GingerBread Lane and Holiday Food Science Festival in their roundup of the best things to help you get into the holiday mood.

Read all about this year’s GingerBread Lane display.

FOX 5 NY’s Ernie Anastos interviews Sean Casey, director of Back from the Brink, now playing in NYSCI’s theater.

Learn about flight with CUNY-TV’s Barry Mitchell and NYSCI Explainer James Creed.

Learn about an exciting new partnership with NYSCI and Cognizant U.S. Foundation to inspire more than 1,000 students and their families in STEM.

GingerBread Lane makes this list of “… the absolute best ways to get into the spirit of the season…”

Climate Art Beat features NYSCI’s Connected Worlds as one of the “10 pioneering climate art events” for fall and winter.

NYSCI’s Halloween event, Dead or Alive, is highlighted in this guide to cultural events in New York City.

The Queens Chronicle chats with Julie Wosk, curator of NYSCI’s photography exhibit, Imaging Women in Space.

Connected Worlds was created by Design I/O for the New York Hall of Science, with A/V integration and show control by Moey. Connected Worlds is one of the largest, most complex responsive environments ever created for a museum. It occupies 2,300sf of the science center’s iconic Great Hall, and surrounds visitors with six fourteen-foot-tall interactive screens, which present distinct, interactive natural environments, or worlds, fed by a central, thirty-eight-foot-tall digital waterfall.

A first-hand account of NYSCI’s special exhibition, The Art of the Brick.

AAA talks about The Art of the Brick, GingerBread Lane and more in this feature on a day trip to NYSCI.

The New York Times includes The Art of the Brick in their weekly guide to cultural events in New York City.

New permanent exhibit delights and engages visitors in learning science through play. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on May 23rd Celebrates PepsiCo’s Support.

Design Lab is a series of five activity areas recently opened to the public at the New York Hall of Science. Each of these five spaces: Sandbox, Backstage, Studio, Treehouse and Maker Space are distinct in scale and character and are designed to host a diverse array of STEM and project-based learning activities.

Oracle’s Christopher Doroszczyk, Regeneron’s Kathryn Guarini (Ph.D.), and Unqork’s Gary Hoberman. The new leaders join Google’s Maya Kulycky who joined in December.

The New York Hall of Science has teamed up with Verizon and Snap to launch “Science City Explorers,” a citywide augmented reality experience that allows people to learn the science in common public objects across New York City, turning the Big Apple into an interactive learning lab.

One Year After Damage from Hurricane Ida, NYSCI launches new interactive exhibits that explore sustainability, climate change and human mental and physical resilience

Museum and community leaders joined by NASA Astronaut and Scientist Dr. Jeanette Epps

A permanent exhibition that encourages visitors to be creative while experimenting with structures, circuits, simple materials, and more.

The exhibition offers a rich, open-ended learning environment that immerses visitors in a fanciful universe where they can affect the health and balance of six distinct, interconnected habitats. The beautifully rendered, projected habitats represent fanciful versions of wetlands, rainforest, grassland, river valley, reservoir and desert, which arc around a 40’ virtual waterfall and floodplain. Each habitat thrives with unique creatures and plants that respond to the visitors’ interactions.

In the last two years the New York Hall of Science has been shuttered first by the pandemic and then by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. It partially reopened Feb. 19.

If there was any doubt that NYSCI is back, the children visiting its “Connected Worlds” exhibit on a sunny day a month later emphatically put that to rest.

Groundbreaking Exhibition About Sustainability at the New York Hall of Science.

A Science Spin is a Hole-in-One at this New York Hall of Science Exhibition.

The Science Playground at the New York Hall of Science is the largest science playground in the United States.

Five iPAD apps created by New York Hall of Science – inspire kids to learn math and science.

Bon Appétit! is a new exhibition about food and healthy eating habits that is open through May 13, 2018.

Picture Dots encourages conversations and interactions between young learners and their parents, caregivers or educators in ways that connect to early literacy, math and science skills.

The second annual Community Appreciation Day will be held on June 13, 2018 from 3 – 6 pm. The event celebrates the educators, students, organizations and funders that partner on NYSCI Neighbors, a multifaceted initiative of creative educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

NYSCI has received a federal grant of $2.8 million from the Education Innovation and Research Program (EIR) of the U.S. Department of Education to expand the use of Playground Physics.

NYSCI's annual holiday festival, ReMake the Holidays, features activities that will inspire families to make unique creations out of reused paper and fabric.

More than 1,300 gingerbread houses will be on display at NYSCI from November 10, 2018 – January 21, 2019. The record-holder for the Guinness World Records largest gingerbread village, GingerBread Lane is made entirely of gingerbread, royal icing and candy.

Through more than 20 exhibit components, visitors to the new exhibition Bionic Me will get a hands-on view of how technology can augment, and sometimes even surpass, human abilities.

Backyard Wilderness, a 3D film about the unique wildlife found in our backyards, is now showing at NYSCI through September 30, 2019.

NYSCI has created an interactive, web-based comic book that explores diseases that can be spread from humans to other animals. Transmissions: Gone Viral can be downloaded online for free and is geared towards middle school students.

Queens is home to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. In turn, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is home to the New York Hall of Science. New York City has no shortage of science and science-related museums. Still, the New York Hall of Science stands out because it offers a much more hands-on experience than most other science museums. As a result, it can hold its own against its competitors, particularly for people who prefer learning by doing.

NYSCI in partnership with Design I/O has created an app for iPad, Mac OS and Windows, that pairs environmental concepts with practice in computational thinking.

The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) highlights sustainability and the environment during Sustainable Spring Break, a week of activities, installations and workshops held during the April school vacation week on April 22 – 26. On …

We are thrilled to partner with the New York Hall of Science Makerspace! Our first collaboration was a 2-day Cardboard World-Building Workshop at the Autistry Makerspace led by Samantha Tumolo, Trevor Taylor, and Sophia Madonia. The World-Building project will be an ongoing creative endeavor as Autistry students add more details to their unique world vision.

NYSCI celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a summer filled with flight and space-themed exhibits, workshops, demonstrations, installations and a new film.

NYSCI launches museum visitors into the future of aerospace technology and air travel with the summer exhibition, Above and Beyond – The Ultimate Flight Exhibition

We are announcing the cancellation of World Maker Faire 2019, which had been scheduled to occur at NYSCI on September 21-22.

The Art of the Brick, a captivating exhibition and the world’s largest display of LEGO® art, features more than 100 works of art by contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya.

Grouphug, a solar company that makes creatively designed solar panels for use by consumers and companies, will be appearing on ABC’s Shark Tank on Friday, March 20.

The New York Hall of Science has a wide variety of free, digital resources that parents can use at home with their kids to help supplement the science and math they are learning in school.

We have made the difficult decision to temporarily close the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) to the public beginning March 14. We will continue to provide updates on the situation as it develops.

NYSCI has received a federal grant from the Education Innovation and Research Program of the U.S. Department of Education to expand the use of The Pack as a program to increase middle school student engagement in computational thinking across New York City public schools.

NYSCI Will Re-Open Its Doors to the Public When Visitor and Staff Safety Can Be Ensured Rethinking STEM education in a world shaped by COVID-19, NYSCI will continue to deliver virtual experiences and outdoor activities …

The re-opening kicks off a weekend-long program of community activities, sponsored by Amazon Refurbished, reimagined buildings feature The Happiness Experiment, a brand-new exhibit sponsored by PepsiCo Queens, NY – July 8, 2021 – The New York Hall ...

Generous Support Enabled NYSCI to reopen while continuing to rebuild from Hurricane Ida damage following Pandemic Closure. Focus on The Happiness Experiment, a new interactive exhibit on the science behind resilience.