Guided Fossil Trip AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM

Your financial support is essential to our work, and deeply appreciated. Our monthly raffle is one way that we generate funds to support educational programming, care and conservation of our collections, facility upkeep and improvements, and essential administrative tasks.

Congratulations on winning the March raffle, Stephanie Seipp!

About Our Prize

Guided Fossil Trip AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM

This month we are raffling a personalized one day guided fossil hunting trip (presume one family/one car) to a restricted access beach in Calvert County, Maryland. This site is known for an abundance of Miocene Calvert Formation fossils, in particular a large variety of teeth and shells. Large Otodus (Carcharodon/Carcharocles) megalodon teeth (megs) have been found at this site, along with fossils and teeth from whales, dolphins, rays and many other sharks.   

We will provide directions and meet you at the site. Parking space is limited and restricted on this private property, hence the one car limit.

The trip will take place on a mutually agreed upon 2024 weekend day when all parties are available and when the tides are low and hopefully the weather cooperates. Must be used before November 30, 2024.

You can keep what you find, and we promise a unique fun and educational experience. As a bonus, we will probably see Osprey and maybe a Bald Eagle. No extra charge!

About Your Guides

Adrien Malick is a fossil curator at NHSM who grew up collecting fossils on Chesapeake Bay beaches.

Nick Spero is a biologist who is a walking talking encyclopedia of the fossils you’ll be looking for and the nature you will encounter.

PLUS

As an NHSM Lifetime Membership (value $1000) member you will receive discounts on many of our programs—from lectures, workshops, and courses offered in our museum—to canoe trips, nature walks, and fossil hunts in the great outdoors.

Purchase a chance to win Guided Fossil Trip AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM! Only 1,000 tickets will be sold.

Buying a chance is easy.

The raffle drawing will occur on April 30, 2024, or when all tickets have been sold. Buying more than one ticket increases your chances to win!

Thank you for your support!

Raffle Information and Rules

1.    Support us by purchasing a ticket.

2.    For every $5 ticket you buy your name will be entered once (i.e. $5=1 entry, $10=2 entries, etc.)

3.    Cut-off date to be entered is April 30, 2024 at noon.

4.    The winner will be chosen at random and announced on the NHSM website and social media on NOVEMBER 30, 2024. The winner will also be notified via email.

5.    Participants must be 21 years of age or older.

6.    The prize is for specified items only. No substitutions.

7.    NHSM officers, directors and employees are ineligible to enter the Raffle. Immediate family members of NHSM employees (defined as: spouse, siblings, parents, children) are also not eligible to enter or win. Any entry from an ineligible person is void.

8.   Raffle ticket purchases do not qualify as tax deductible contributions, per IRS Publication 526.

9.    Lifetime Membership goes to one person and that person must be 18 years of age or older.  Lifetime Membership is non-transferable. It will only be awarded to the person who purchased the ticket. Lifetime Membership allows the member to receive discounts on programs for him/herself, a significant other, and children under the age of 18 living in the same household.

*If you win a NHSM raffle more than once, you will only receive one Lifetime membership.

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