Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Discover the incredibly diverse world of insects, arachnids, and bugs. Meet hunting spiders, beetle farmers, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and drink like a butterfly. Watch how some mini-beasts change their forms throughout their life cycle!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Discover the incredibly diverse world of insects, arachnids, and bugs. Meet hunting spiders, beetle farmers, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and drink like a butterfly. Watch how some mini-beasts change their forms throughout their life cycle!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Venture into outer space and explore the planets and stars! Learn what it takes to be an astronaut by building an astronaut suit and practicing astro-exercises. Design a rocket for blast-off, hear stories about constellations and discover what it would be like to live on other planets.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Venture into outer space and explore the planets and stars! Learn what it takes to be an astronaut by building an astronaut suit and practicing astro-exercises. Design a rocket for blast-off, hear stories about constellations and discover what it would be like to live on other planets.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Calling all super marine scientists! Swim as fast as a shark, hide like a halibut, and snap like a pistol shrimp. Use your super senses and compare them to animals with excellent detection skills. Study the marine world as you investigate how ocean superstar animals adapt, survive, and thrive in the ocean.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Calling all super marine scientists! Swim as fast as a shark, hide like a halibut, and snap like a pistol shrimp. Use your super senses and compare them to animals with excellent detection skills. Study the marine world as you investigate how ocean superstar animals adapt, survive, and thrive in the ocean.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Become a paleontologist and explore the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Examine “dinosaur bones” to piece together a skeleton, excavate fossils, and investigate clues to discover how dinosaurs once lived. Step outside into your yard and marvel at dinosaurs' modern descendants: birds!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Become a paleontologist and explore the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Examine “dinosaur bones” to piece together a skeleton, excavate fossils, and investigate clues to discover how dinosaurs once lived. Step outside into your yard and marvel at dinosaurs' modern descendants: birds!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Develop your paleontology skills by finding and excavating fossils of land and sea. Discover how fossils are created in nature. Build dinosaur models and examine them to learn how these dinosaurs looked, moved, and lived.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Develop your paleontology skills by finding and excavating fossils of land and sea. Discover how fossils are created in nature. Build dinosaur models and examine them to learn how these dinosaurs looked, moved, and lived.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Explore the wonders of some marvelous marine animals with activities, crafts, games and investigations. Take a close look at what it takes to be a whale, a sea otter, a polar bear, an abalone, and a sea turtle. Play games to learn about special abilities for thriving and surviving in the open ocean. Create, build, and make models of animals.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Explore the wonders of some marvelous marine animals with activities, crafts, games and investigations. Take a close look at what it takes to be a whale, a sea otter, a polar bear, an abalone, and a sea turtle. Play games to learn about special abilities for thriving and surviving in the open ocean. Create, build, and make models of animals.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Discover the diverse world of insects and bugs. Turn over a rock and dig in the dirt to reveal lively critters. Meet spiders (not insects, but arachnids) that hunt, caterpillars that spin silk, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and eat like a butterfly. Study the life cycles and special abilities of backyard bugs.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Discover the diverse world of insects and bugs. Turn over a rock and dig in the dirt to reveal lively critters. Meet spiders (not insects, but arachnids) that hunt, caterpillars that spin silk, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and eat like a butterfly. Study the life cycles and special abilities of backyard bugs.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Would you like to go to Wizarding School? Take a potions class and learn chemistry, study the stars, make a broom fly using static electricity, and study magical creatures. Then use all of your wizarding science skills to face a challenge that makes the O.W.L. exam look easy.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Would you like to go to Wizarding School? Take a potions class and learn chemistry, study the stars, make a broom fly using static electricity, and study magical creatures. Then use all of your wizarding science skills to face a challenge that makes the O.W.L. exam look easy.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.