at the Council Senior Center, 241 West 72nd Street, Manhattan. NöEL COWARD LECTURE, by Kenneth Starrett, North American director of the Nöel Coward Society. Ticket buyers will receive a free, six-month subscription to Country Living. THE PIER SHOW, Pier 94, 12th Avenue and 55th Street, Clinton. Agnes branch of the New York Public Library, 444 Amsterdam Avenue, at 81st Street. for "Starry Nights: Fridays Under the Sphere," with jazz, a cash bar and tapas, on the first Friday of every month, with shows at 6 and 7:30 p.m.
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Combination tickets, including museum and Rose Center admission and the Hayden Planetarium space show ("Cosmic Collisions"): $22 students and 60+, $16.50 2 to 12, $13 under 2, free admission that includes all activities: $30 students and 60+, $23 12 and younger, $19. Suggested museum admission: $14 students and 60+, $10.50 children, $8. Imax tickets, which include museum admission, are $21 students and 60+, $16 children under 12, $12. Timed tickets to "Gold," "The Butterfly Conservatory" and "Lizards & Snakes: Alive!," which include museum admission, are $21 students and 60+, $16 12 and younger, $12. In the Imax theater, "Ride Around the World," a film about cowboys. The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites displays the 34-ton Ahnighito meteorite, part of the Cape York meteorite. Also on view: "Vital Variety: A Visual Celebration of Invertebrate Biodiversity," an exhibition of 24 large-format color photographs by the entomologist Piotr Naskrecki in the gallery next to the Imax theater. 2, "Voices From South of the Clouds," a display of photographs of life in Yunnan Province in China, taken by villagers. 7, "Lizards & Snakes: Alive!," an exhibition with live examples of more than 25 species. 18, "Yellowstone to Yukon," an exhibition of more than 40 photographs by 11 photographers documenting the animals, vegetation and geology of the regions affected by one of the world's largest wildlife conservation initiatives. Through May 28, "The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter," a display with hundreds of butterflies in a re-creation of their natural habitat. Tomorrow at noon, museum curators will discuss the mining of gold and its history as a symbol of wealth. 19, "Gold," with coins, jewelry and other artifacts.
Opening tomorrow and running through Aug. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Central Park West and 79th Street.