Explore our Space

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 3,500 guests by expanding your event into our many exhibition halls.

Reception: 400 | Seated: 400

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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.

Reception: 400 | Seated: 100

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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

Reception:  350 | Seated: 80

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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.

Reception:  300 | Seated:  50

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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.

Reception: 400 | Seated: 60

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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.

Seated: 530

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Be among the first to host an event in the shadow of the dinosaurs in our newly renovated National Fossil Hall, which opened on June 8, 2019.

Reception 300 | Seated 100

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