Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
Get ready. It’s coming. Museum Store Sunday 2026. NHSM 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 NHSM’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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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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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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You are never fully dressed without a fossilized shark tooth necklace you make yourself! Drop into the museum between 10-2 to create a wearable piece of history featuring an authentic Otodus shark tooth from Morocco—an ancient ancestor of the massive megalodon. For centuries, shark teeth have been worn as symbols of protection, strength, and effortless cool. We provide all […]
Cost: $15-20
Debbie Saylor is an anthropologist/archaeologist, museum curator, educator, and historian with more than 20 years of experience in archaeology and the interpretation of Native American history and material culture in the Lower Susquehanna region. She serves as Curator of Indian Steps Museum and Blue Rock Heritage Center and is actively involved as Education Director with the […]
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Put Ancient Life in Your Students’ Hands The Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences’ Fossil Kit Training is a hands‑on workshop designed for educators of all subjects and grade levels who want to teach Earth’s story using real specimens. During this interactive session, participants explore Maryland’s geologic timeline, fossilization processes, extinction events, and the ancient plants […]
Cost: $10
Species are not distributed equally throughout their ranges. They occupy a mosaic of habitat patches, and the populations within those patches range from well connected to nearly isolated. Genomic surveys, paired with analytical tools drawn from artificial intelligence, let biologists map where populations actually occur, measure how connected and how healthy they are, and forecast […]
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