Unleash your imagiNATURE Created in partnership with the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences, this exhibition pairs objects from the museum’s collection with works by contemporary artists whose practices explore, interpret, and investigate the natural world. By bringing art and science into dialogue, the exhibition offers new ways of understanding the environments, organisms, and forces that […]
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imagiNATURE Exhibition @ The Gallery at CCBC Essex

November Herp Club- Not Quite Frogs with Teeth: Crocodilians, Snakes, and Lizards of Australia

Come and learn an overview of Australian crocodilians, snakes, and lizards that reside in both the National Aquarium and the wild as a whole and what make them so special and unique with Drew Roderuck, Herpetologist at the National Aquarium. From Drew: “Working in the field of Herpetology for 13 years, I have spent the […]
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Museum Store Sunday at MMNS — One Day Only!

Get ready. It’s coming. Museum Store Sunday 2026. MMNS is thrilled to join over 2,200 museums across the globe for Museum Store Sunday, a day dedicated to purposeful shopping and community support. Why Shop MMNS’s Museum Store Sunday? Because every purchase fuels our mission. Revenue from this event helps keep museum admission free and program […]
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December Fossil Club: Tyrant Lizard Queen – A deep dive into the life of T. rex

Please join us on Wednesday, December 2nd at 7pm for a highly anticipated presentation by author Riley Black. Tyrannosaurus rex is an icon. Everyone knows the dinosaur. But how much do you really know about how this giant carnivore lived? In this talk based on her new book, bestselling and award-winning science writer Riley Black […]
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Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon

Save the Date! Please join us on Sunday, December 6th at 12pm at the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences (6908 Belair Road) for a volunteer appreciation luncheon to celebrate all of the hard work you’ve done this year. We can’t thank you enough, but we’ll try!
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December Herp Club: Show-and-Tell!

Join us for our last Herp Club meeting of the year- it’s an exciting one. It’s a show-and-tell! Current, paid members are invited to bring a Herp along to show-and-tell to highlight not only the importance of Herp husbandry, but how to manage the care and keeping of these creatures responsibly. If you are interested […]
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January Fossil Club- Darwin’s Predecessor, Kierkegaard’s Brother-in-law: Paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund

In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in 1840, the Danish paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880) became the first naturalist to discover human remains in the same stratum as extinct megafauna (e.g., the Megatherium). These findings traced the origins of humankind back into deep time and refuted the quasi-biblical catastrophism of the French natural historian Georges […]
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