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 [Read More]
Natural History
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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 [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center welcomes collection of turtles and fish home with ribbon cutting ceremony CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is unveiling a new aquarium in the Duke Energy Children’s Museum on Saturday, June 28. The [Read More]
Local scout works with Cincinnati Museum Center to process fossils CINCINNATI – Local Boy Scout Ryan DiMisa recently led a group of 14 youth and adults through a one-day, intensive project to uncover Ice Age [Read More]
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar and Hidden Universe debut June 13 at Cincinnati Museum Center CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is taking you halfway around the world and beyond the stars with two new OMNIMAX® films [Read More]
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich presents Extreme Habitats: Into the Deep Sea an exhibition on view now through November 9, 2014. Explore the vast and extraordinary deep sea, the last frontier on this planet. Discover [Read More]
A team of scientists from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the University of Utah has described an unusual bird-like dinosaur previously unknown to science, resembling a [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History presents Unintended Journeys an exhibition on view Feb. 7 – Aug. 13. Drawing on 50 stunning and poignant images taken by photographers at Magnum Photos, the exhibition explores humanity’s [Read More]
The University of Richmond Museums presents Virginia ROCKS! Geologic Selections from the Collection, on view from January 24, 2014, through June 12, 2015 Including more than forty specimens from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History announced that the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton it obtained from Montana will arrive in Washington April 15. The T. rex skeleton will be the centerpiece of the museum’s new 31,000-square-foot [Read More]
The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents Snow an exhibition on view through September 28, 2014. This new exhibition reveals how snow has shaped the Canadian identity. You’ll never look at winter the same way again. [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History recently acquired its first complete skeleton of a North Atlantic right whale. Accession of the 45-foot adult whale specimen was made possible thanks to an international collaboration of museum [Read More]
The University of Alaska Museum of the North announces Family Day: Fish on Saturday, December 14, 2013 * Noon-4pm Explore Alaskan fish, shark, salmon, blackfish, and more through many hands-on activities. Dissection, fish art, games, [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History will open a first-of-its-kind interactive environment for teens Dec. 12. Q?rius (pronounced “curious”), is a new way to connect science with the everyday teen experiences. The new 10,000-square-foot Silver [Read More]
The American Museum of Natural History presents The Power of Poison an exhibition on view through August 10, 2014. Discover the toxic species that live in a remote Colombian forest, where poisons are just one [Read More]
May 3-September 1, 2014 Special Exhibits Gallery An elegant example of extreme evolution, New Guinea’s birds-of-paradise show off their feathery flair during elaborate mating rituals. In this special exhibit based on the groundbreaking research of [Read More]
The San Diego Natural History Museum is selling off 13 fossils by public auction on November 19, 2013. The Museum said “The San Diego Natural History Museum’s mission is to interpret the natural world of [Read More]
The Indiana State Museum presents Ice Age Giants: The Mystery of Mammoths and Mastodons, beginning Saturday, Nov. 16 through August 17, 2014. The exhibition explores Ice Age animals and their environments, what happens at a [Read More]