NEW YORK

The American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is showing Dinosaurs Alive! on IMAX—a film that follows current American Museum of Natural History paleontologists as they hunt for dinosaur remains in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Screenings are held daily. The museum also offers a handful of summer programs for children. For more information, call 212-769-5100, or visit the museum’s Web site at: www.amnh.org/.

The Paleontological Research Institution
The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca offers tours, classroom programs, discovery labs, and field trips, along with many special events. For more information, call 607-273-6623, or visit its Web site at: www.priweb.org/.

New York Unearthed
At New York Unearthed, South Street Seaport's urban archaeology center, you will be able to piece together 6,000 years of history through dioramas and artifacts excavated from New York City's archaeological sites. Upstairs, you can walk through centuries of the city's past in minutes. Downstairs, you will find a glass-enclosed conservation laboratory. On some days, you may find the staff processing some of the museum's artifact collection. They may be piecing together shards of dinnerware or puzzling out the origins of a clay pipe. The museum also features a three-dimensional cross-section of an archaeological site that shows how the remains of the past can survive even in densely populated areas. Learn why backyards are often the best places to find artifacts and how the digging of deep basements for skyscrapers can destroy valuable evidence. For more information, visit its Web site at: www.southstseaport.org/.

The Queens County Farm Museum
The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park offers colonial farmhouse tours and hands-on farm classes. Kids experience the many facets of farm life during the 18th century. Also available are wool-works and colonial cooking workshops. For more information, call 718-347-3276, ext. 14, or visit its Web site at: http://queensfarm.org/.

The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden offers many programs for young explorers, including the Everett Children's Adventure Garden, where kids can romp through outdoor mazes and explore 40 hands-on activities. The museum also hosts many other educational events. For more information, visit its Web site at: www.nybg.org.

The American Numismatic Society, Federal Reserve Bank
A selection of the Numismatic Society’s vast collection of currency is on display in Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money. Among the more than 800 examples, spanning the globe and some 3,000 years, are a Brasher doubloon, a seventh-century B.C. Lydian electrum coin, shell money from Thailand, Native American wampum, and a Confederate States half-dollar. The contents of cases range from currency of ancient Greece to the Mediterranean world, to that of medieval East and South Asia, to money of 19th-century empires and colonialism, to paper currency used around the world today. This exhibit is by appointment only. For more information, call 212-720-6130, or visit: http://www.numismatics.org/.

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