Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
As a pre-Revolutionary War mining site, Mineral Hill, near today’s Liberty Reservoir, produced iron, extracting it from a thick hematite ore vein. Later, during a 19th-century expansion, copper was mined along with trace minerals like chalcopyrite and bornite, with shafts reaching 400 ft deep and employing up to 100 miners. Now, magnetite, chalcopyrite, actinolite, malachite, […]
Cost: $10-15
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 […]
This fall, we are teaming up with Common Tone to bring Story Makers to the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences. Designed for children aged 1-5 and their caregivers, each session will include a family craft and music event that explores a story through songs, art, movement, and play. Children will create and take home a craft inspired […]
Cost: $0-120
Join naturalist Greg Kearns in a remarkable opportunity to learn about our sora rail population and its tight link with wild rice in the Patuxent River marshlands. While out on a pontoon boat, we hope to see rail on the mudflats at low tide and possibly watch the banding of a few individuals. We will […]
Cost: $32-40
Delmarva bays are among Maryland’s most distinctive and least understood wetland systems, and once numbered in the thousands across the peninsula. A Caroline County property containing several of these natural bays and more than 200 acres of active farmland was acquired by The Nature Conservancy in 1978. When restoration efforts began in 2002, the site became a rare living laboratory: a natural bay, a rehabilitated […]
Cost: $0-5
Join us for a full-day tour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) with lead archaeologist Dr. Jim Gibb. Pack a lunch and come explore the intersection of history and modern science across the property. Our tour begins at the Woodlawn House to learn of its history and the exhibits highlighting important finds on the […]
Cost: $20-25
Join us at the Masonville Cove Bird Banding Station to learn about how Baltimore’s greenspaces support local birdlife and how scientists employ bird banding to study ecology—regionally and beyond. At our station, the southbound fall migration is busier and sees a more diverse cast of species than spring; more than a dozen species of sparrow, […]
Cost: $0-12
We’ve peered over the edge into the pit at Texas Quarry for years, dreaming of the treasure waiting below. That dream is now a reality with this newest adventure – a trip to the bottom to search for calcite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other less common minerals at Martin Marietta’s Texas Quarry. We’ll start at the […]
Cost: $3-10
This fall, we are teaming up with Common Tone to bring Story Makers to the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences. Designed for children aged 1-5 and their caregivers, each session will include a family craft and music event that explores a story through songs, art, movement, and play. Children will create and take home a craft inspired […]
Cost: $0-120
At the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences, we look forward to October all year long- so that we can finally celebrate HERP-O-WEEN! Whether you’re a long-time herp lover or just a little curious- this event is for you! Come hang out with some friendly herps (reptiles and amphibians) and their conscientious owners at the Maryland […]
Cost: $0-1