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HARD OF HEARING OR DEAF

Infrared assistive listening devices (headsets and neck loops) are available upon request in the following locations:

• LeFrak IMAX® Theater
• Kaufmann and Linder Theaters
• Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
• Big Bang Theater

Rear Window captioning (RWC) is available in the LeFrak IMAX Theater for most films. Please see the theater attendant for a panel.

Open captioning is provided in most exhibit theaters throughout the Museum.

For additional information on accessibility at the Museum please call 212-769-5250 or email .

Experience informative, entertaining and inspiring presentations of permanent and special exhibitions for both deaf and hearing audiences with simultaneous signed and spoken tours.

Tours are led by Museum guide and professor Gabriel Grayson, American Sign Language inter­preter and chair of the Department of Sign Language at The New School for General Studies.

FREE with Museum admission
All tours meet in Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor

Journey through the Stars of the Museum
Saturday, November 19
1:30 pm
Meet in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor
Join us for an exciting new tour through the Museum to find stars located in a variety of dioramas plus the Hayden Planetarium.

Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration
Saturday, December 10
1:30 pm
Meet in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor
Come take a tour of our newest temporary exhibition, Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration and be launched into the exciting future of space exploration as it boldly speculates on humanity's next steps "out there" in our solar system and beyond.

A Hayden Planetarium Tour of the Universe
Saturday, January 14
1:30 pm
Meet in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe presents the discoveries and explorations of modern astrophysics. Be led on a tour that is rich with astronomical imagery, rotating video displays, computer interactives, and more.

The World of Large North American and African Mammals
Saturday, February 18
1:30 pm
Meet in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor
Join us on a tour of the Museum's mammal halls which are among its most renowned and beloved. With precise depictions of geographical locations and the careful, anatomically correct mounting of the specimens, the Museum's dioramas are windows onto a world of animals, their behavior, and their habitats.