13th annual celebration of insects at Museum Center June 4 CINCINNATI – Bugs. Some walk, some slither, some even fly. They’re everywhere. And now they’re getting their proper due at BugFest , Cincinnati Museum Center’s […]
Natural History
PHILADELPHIA — Tarantulas have a reputation that precedes them—terrifying, fast, hairy, scary. This winter you can see the biggest, baddest and most fearsome of all spiders in Tarantulas: Alive and Up Close, opening Jan. 30 […]
CINCINNATI – Get up close and personal with live bats and learn more about these incredible but misunderstood creatures during BatFest on Saturday, October 24. Join local experts and organizations for a day of hands-on […]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is preparing to open an exhibit of mammoth importance. Big Bone Lick: A Place of Discovery will open in the Ruthven Gallery at Cincinnati Museum Center on October 10. The […]
CINCINNATI – Calling all dino dude and she-Rexes! From trilobites to T-Rexes, mastodons to brachiopods, fossils are taking over Cincinnati Museum Center during Fossil Fest on October 17, a celebration of those hardened remains that […]
CINCINNATI – There’s something big coming to Cincinnati Museum Center. While Shark Week whips the world into a frenzy every summer, at 55 feet long and 48 tons, Whale Week promises to be even bigger. […]
UNION, KY – Something mammoth is going on at Big Bone Lick State Historic Site. The Big Bone Lick visitor center is getting a makeover as part of a revitalization project to vividly tell the […]
PHILADELPHIA — Oozing with disgusting science, Animal Grossology provides a slight off-kilter view of the animal kingdom starting Saturday, May 16, with its grand opening at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Get […]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center and American Exhibitions, Inc., producers of Mummies of the World, continue their efforts to support the local community by inviting nearly 50 Boys & Girls Clubs members and staff as […]
Water Conservation Education Exhibit shares the importance of water in our everyday lives CINCINNATI – Water is essential to life, a fact that the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District knows well. With the […]
The Curious Mister Catesby opens Apr 19 with lecture and panel discussion CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is hosting an exhibition featuring the works of Mark Catesby, North America’s first naturalist. In conjunction with the […]
CINCINNATI – Swim alongside massive humpback whales on a journey beneath the waves and around the globe. Humpback Whales opens February 13 in the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater at Cincinnati Museum Center as […]
New exhibit explores story of extinction and lessons to save species on the brink CINCINNATI – The extinct Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that flocks darkened the skies, is making a return to Cincinnati. Martha: […]
Cincinnati Museum Center and Cincinnati Zoo join in efforts to research and educate about endangered species CINCINNATI – A rare Sumatran rhinoceros named Ipuh has found a new home at Cincinnati Museum Center. A Cincinnati […]
PHILADELPHIA (October 14, 2014) — It is the biggest snake that ever roamed the planet, and it is coming to Philadelphia in February 2015. At 48 feet long and 2,500 pounds, Titanoboa cerrejonensis grew as […]
Cincinnati Museum Center hosts Fossil Week October 15 – 18 CINCINNATI – Whether you’re an amateur paleontologist who can name every dinosaur from the Jurassic period or you can’t tell a trilobite from a triceratops, […]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering a waterfowl-watching river cruise on Friday, October 24 with Chester River Field Research Station ornithologists Dan Small and Maren Gimpel. The 90-minute cruise aboard […]
Funding from R.C. Durr Foundation allows Cincinnati Museum Center exhibits team to redesign visitor center UNION, KY – Friends of Big Bone (FOBB), Big Bone Lick State Historic Site (BBL) and Cincinnati Museum Center announce […]