• Text: Butterflies in Flight. Live. Timed ticketing. They're back! until March 31, 2020. Image: A blue butterfly.
    Take a stroll among live butterflies! 
  • Text: Nature Sleepovers. Spend the night in the wild. Composite: A girl shines a flashlight on a dinosaur skull from her bed.
    Pack your pjs and flashlight and be ready for some wild discoveries! Find out more. 
A blue butterfly.

Butterflies in Flight

Special Exhibition

Until March 31

Take a stroll among live butterflies!

Composite: A girl shines a flashlight on a dinosaur skull from her bed.

Nature Sleepovers

Sept 2019 – June 2020

Enjoy hands-on, guided activities, watch a 3D movie, and then sleep overnight in a gallery! (Plus general admission the next day). More information.

Sea star.

Refreshing Water

A Science Literacy Week Celebration

Learn about the fascinating plant and animal life found in tidal pools, and meet cave diver Jill Heinerth.

A woman wearing VR goggles.

Jurassic Flight

Immersive Birdly VR experience

Soar through the prehistoric skies, high above dinosaurs, and view the world from the perspective of a pterosaur.

View of the front doors.

Hours

  • 9 am – 5 pm
  • Thursdays: 9 am – 8 pm
  • Mondays: closed
  • All exceptions
Life-sized models of the dinosaurs Daspletosaurus torosus and Vagaceratops irvinensis in our fossil gallery.

Our Exhibitions

Windows on the natural world:
Fossils, Arctic, Water, Earth, Mammals, Birds, Nature Live and Special Exhibitions.

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