Calling all paleontologists! Discover the lives of dinosaurs and their relatives alive today. Travel back in time to the Mesozoic Era, work with real fossils and come face-to-face with modern-day dinosaurs. This week features a field trip to collect (and take home) real fossils!

Calling all explorers 2–5 years old! Along with your favorite adult, join us in exploring nature through songs, games, hands-on fun, and museum adventures. An appropriate snack is provided.

Join us for Dinos After Dark and enjoy pay-what-you-wish admission, family activities and the Dino Drafts Beer Garden in Dinosaur Hall!   

Visitors on the autism spectrum and their families are invited to experience the museum before the crowds.

Amaze yourself with the wilderness around you. Gain a bug’s-eye view of the world, play a game of cricket croquet, and create your very own miniboat to race! This week features a field trip to learn more about the nearby wilderness!

Marty the Moose loves nothing more than a story time spent entertaining the crowds with his terrible jokes and goofy sense of humor. Join Marty and his favorite humans to hear a special story and meet a live animal.

Calling all explorers 2–5 years old! Along with your favorite adult, join us in exploring nature through songs, games, hands-on fun, and museum adventures. An appropriate snack is provided.

Enjoy free admission to the Academy of Natural Sciences! If you live in 19104, 19139, 19143 or 19146, visit us for FREE every weekend in September.

Enjoy free admission to the Academy of Natural Sciences! If you live in 19104, 19139, 19143 or 19146, visit us for FREE every weekend in September.

Philadelphia Contemporary presents “Museums of the 21st Century,” a series of public conversations with the founders, writers, curators and artists altering our conception of what a museum can offer its public.