Alabama Museum of Natural History

Full details for this virtual event can be found at www.bamabugfest.org.

Chat with our Bama Bug Fest Experts LIVE on YouTube (youtube.com/UAMuseums) as you watch video premiere! Click this link to join the live chat: https://youtu.be/W4Edmu17Ato https://youtu.be/W4Edmu17Ato Video Description: We often have live insects at outreach events, but have you ever wondered where they live and how we care for them?? This video gives you an inside look at some of the student bug keepers. Find out their favorite bugs and maybe their least favorite! • Bama Bug Fest: https://bamabugfest.org/​ • Support [...]

Chat with our Bama Bug Fest Experts LIVE on YouTube (youtube.com/UAMuseums) as you watch video premiere! Click this link to join the live chat: https://youtu.be/oY4wBBW0C2A https://youtu.be/oY4wBBW0C2A Video Description: Have you ever watched bugs flit around a lightbulb on the back porch at night? If so, you have seen a form of the insect observation and collection technique called “black lighting.” Join UA Museums staff, John and Kendra Abbott, Piotr Naskrecki from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa and Nancy Miorelli [...]

Full details coming soon. Evening program Recorded video Mindfulness activity to observe nature Keenan-led poetry learning

A new exhibit is flying to the Alabama Museum of Natural History. The Buzz about Bees is a collaborative exhibit with the Alabama Museum of Natural History, the West Alabama Beekeepers Association, and the UA Bee Club. The exhibit focuses on the honey bee and features a live beehive that gives visitors an inside look at the honey bees’ honey production and social structure. Although just a small portion of the over 4,000 species of bee native to North America, the honey bee [...]

Due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, the museum will not be offering our normal week-long Museum Expedition program for Summer 2021. We will however be offering a “Mini Expedition” program at Moundville Archaeological Park. Join the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Office of Archaeological Research (OAR) for a mini version of our popular summer camp, the Museum Expedition. This year, Museum Expedition 43 will have three two-day programs throughout June and July. Each program will focus on [...]

Due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, the museum will not be offering our normal week-long Museum Expedition program for Summer 2021. We will however be offering a “Mini Expedition” program at Moundville Archaeological Park. Join the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Office of Archaeological Research (OAR) for a mini version of our popular summer camp, the Museum Expedition. This year, Museum Expedition 43 will have three two-day programs throughout June and July. Each program will focus on [...]

Due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, the museum will not be offering our normal week-long Museum Expedition program for Summer 2021. We will however be offering a “Mini Expedition” program at Moundville Archaeological Park. Join the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Office of Archaeological Research (OAR) for a mini version of our popular summer camp, the Museum Expedition. This year, Museum Expedition 43 will have three two-day programs throughout June and July. Each program will focus on [...]

Fossil Excursion, formerly Shark’s Tooth Creek Fossils, is one of the museum’s most popular summer field trips. We travel to the Black Belt of Alabama in search of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from the Cretaceous Age. Participants should be prepared to get wet and muddy as we wed through shallow streams to collect sharks teeth and other marine fossils from streambed gravel deposits. 16 spaces available – $30/person *All participants age 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult [...]