Explore a tropical oasis of flowers and waterfalls with hundreds of living butterflies from around the world in Florida Museum's Butterfly Rainforest permanent exhibit. The Rainforest houses tropical plants and trees, including nectar flowers to support many different species of Lepidoptera. Guests can stroll along the winding path and relax to the sounds of cascading waterfalls year-round.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view live butterfly releases Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., weather permitting.

There is an additional admission charge to the Butterfly Rainforest. Please see Visitor Information for details.

Did you see a beautiful butterfly during your visit to the exhibit and want to know what it is? Check out our new Butterfly Rainforest Exhibit Identification Guide! This guide, organized by color, contains photographs of the more than 150 Lepidoptera species displayed in the Florida Museum's Butterfly Rainforest exhibit since it opened in 2004.

• The Butterfly Rainforest is a 6,400 square foot living exhibit.
  
  
• It usually contains 60 to 80 species at any one given time.
  
  
• The continuous population is several hundred butterflies.
  
  
• Butterflies in our predator-free exhibit typically live two to three weeks.
  
  
• Tropical butterflies generally begin flying when the air temperature reaches 60 degrees.
  
  
• Butterflies in the exhibit are from butterfly farms because they help protect natural habitats from destruction and promote conservation.
  
  
• Our butterflies come to us in the chrysalis stage from farms in the Philippines, Malaysia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Suriname, Ecuador, Belize and Florida.