Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Learn about the serious business of animal enrichment and see animal ambassadors at work and play. Enjoy games, crafts, and special demonstrations. Live animal demonstrations will take place every hour on Sat 11/9 from 10:30AM to 2:30PM in the outdoor Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center & Woods Garden - Presented by KeyBank (rain or shine).
Have a howling good time with hands-on activities fit for the season. The event is free for members and included in the cost of general admission for nonmembers. For more information, please visit CMNH.org.
SPONSORED: Breakfast with Scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, an extension of Women in Science Day, is an opportunity for young girls, grades 6 to 12, to have in-depth one-on-one conversions with CMNH female scientists about research, education, experiences, and inspire future scientists. Be there Sat 2/23, from 11AM and meet the following CMNH scientists: Denise Su, Nicole Burt, Nicole Gunter, Courtney Brennan, Amanda McGee, Roberta Muehlheim, and Meghan Strong.
SPONSORED: Think and Drink: Mindfunk Do you know how your own brain works? Of course you don't... unless you're a scientist! Join us at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Thu 1/17 for a sampling of food and drink from Saucy Brew Works, Cleveland Whiskey and CLE Urban Winery, and challenge your brain: Form a team and do a puzzle hunt; try science-based activities & games to overcome worries, stress & life's challenges; check out human brain specimens from CSU. Tickets here.
Raise a glass and increase your knowledge of the natural world at Cleveland's brainiest happy hour!
Each #ThinkandDrink event highlights a different science topic and offers exclusive access to professional staff and researchers, unique experiences and interactive demonstrations. Enjoy a drink from our beer and wine bar, and grab a bite to eat at Exploration: A Zack Bruell Restaurant located off Wade Oval lobby. This month's theme is Winter Solstice and takes place on Thu 12/20.
Think & Drink with the Extinct is from 6 to 10PM on the third Thursday of the month from October through May (with the exception of November which will take place on the second Thursday). The event is free for members.
Raise a glass and increase your knowledge of the natural world at Cleveland's brainiest happy hour!
Each #ThinkandDrink event highlights a different science topic and offers exclusive access to professional staff and researchers, unique experiences and interactive demonstrations. Enjoy a drink from our beer and wine bar, and grab a bite to eat at Exploration: A Zack Bruell Restaurant located off Wade Oval lobby. This month's theme is Prehistoric Cleveland and takes place on Thu 11/8.
Think & Drink with the Extinct is from 6 to 10PM on the third Thursday of the month from October through May (with the exception of November which will take place on the second Thursday). The event is free for members.
Hoot like an owl, howl like a coyote and hoof it down to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for an early Halloween treat this Sat 10/27! Enjoy games, crafts, pumpkin decorating and special animal demonstrations, all in a not-so-spooky setting!
Live animal demonstrations will take place every hour from 10:30AM to 2:30PM outside in Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center & Woods Garden- Presented by KeyBank (rain or shine). Meet "roaming" animal ambassadors up close throughout the event. Learn about animal enrichment and make a Halloween treat for a cat or dog at home. Have a howling good time with hands-on activities fit for the season and make a mask to take home in Smead Discovery Center.
Raise a glass and increase your knowledge of the natural world at Cleveland's brainiest happy hour!
Each #ThinkandDrink event highlights a different science topic and offers exclusive access to professional staff and researchers, unique experiences and interactive demonstrations. Enjoy a drink from our beer and wine bar, and grab a bite to eat at Exploration: A Zack Bruell Restaurant located off Wade Oval lobby. This month's theme is Murder at the Museum and takes place on Thu 10/18.
Think & Drink with the Extinct is from 6 to 10PM on the third Thursday of the month from October through May (with the exception of November which will take place on the second Thursday). The event is free for members.
Can you imagine spider webs stronger than steel? Fish that can bite through bricks? Explore the world of biomechanics to discover the most fascinating marvels of natural engineering – how plants and animals have evolved to survive.
Built to Survive: Biomechanics features interactive exhibits, immersive media and scientific objects help you understand how wonders of the plant and animal kingdoms eat, move, avoid predators and process information to take them to a higher gear above their competition. Open now, the show is included with General Admission and runs through Mon 4/29/19.
SPONSORED: Birds Beasts Brats & Beer Join the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for our annual 21+ party in the Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center & Woods Garden - Presented by KeyBank - to benefit the live animals that call the Museum home. The event on Fri 7/27 from 5:30-10PM features bratwursts grilled hot and refreshingly cold brews from Great Lakes Brewing Company, and stars the Museum's live animal ambassadors! CMNH.org.
SPONSORED: Wild Encounters at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is a new program that takes place everyday at 11AM and 3PM (and Sundays at 3PM). Encounters rotate between otters, coyotes, eagles, bobcat, foxes, raven, birds of prey and wetland and will feature curated experiences in feeding, training and enrichment of the animals. CMNH.org.
SPONSORED: Natural Areas Wine Tour Explore northern Ohio's wild beauty and its local wineries on a one-of-a-kind wine tour on Sat 7/14 at Mentor Marsh from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Enjoy a naturalist-led hike through a spectacular natural area followed by a wine-tasting opportunity at Laurentia Winery. Bring your enthusiasm for the great outdoors, good wine and good company too! Trips are limited to 30 participants. Details.
SPONSORED: Lights Out Cleveland Kirtlandia Society members meet monthly and enjoy programs on topics of current interest in natural history given by Museum curators and local experts. Lectures are held in the Rare Book Room on the top floor of the Museum. Coffee and conversation start at 9:30AM. Lecture begins at 10AM on Sat 6/16 with speaker Tim Jasinski, Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist, Lake Erie Nature & Science Center. Free and open to the public. Details.
SPONSORED: Nature In The City, featuring beer by Butcher and the Brewer and cocktails by Cleveland Whiskey, explores the intersection of urban agriculture, sustainability, conservation and biodiversity. Learn about backyard beekeeping, native gardening, hydroponically grown produce, painted rain barrels, upcyclying, and more. Enjoy cash bar and food by Exploration: A Zack Bruell Restaurant on Wed 5/16 at 7PM. Secure your now for this Explorer Lecture Series event.
SPONSORED: Understanding Dinosaurs in the 21st Century Dr. Mark Norell, Macaulay Curator of Paleontology, Chairman Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, will unearth how technological innovation, the advancement of paleobiology and an adventurous spirit to excavate in new locations around the globe have led to an explosion of new dinosaur knowledge in this century. Enjoy complimentary light appetizers, a cash bar and live music on Fri 5/11 at 7PM. Secure your tickets now for this Explorer Lecture Series event.
SPONSORED: Museum Under The Stars Spend your Wednesday evenings exploring the wonders of the night sky with your favorite companions at Museum Under the Stars - every non-Think & Drink Wednesday from 5-10PM through May 30. Join us this Wed 5/9 at 5PM which includes beer, wine and dinner selections available for purchase in Exploration: A Zack Bruell Restaurant. Members are always free. Tickets.
Millions of years ago, the skies were ruled by pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to fly. Not dinosaurs, pterosaurs could fly with their fingers and they could walk on their wings. Learn more about these prehistoric reptiles at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's new exhibition, Pterosaurs Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.
Dr. Michael Ryan gave CoolCleveland's Stephan Haluska a tour of the exhibition, learning about Pterosaurs along the way. You can see fossils, Pterosaur recreations, videos, and an interactive game where you can become a Pterosaur. The exhibition runs through Sun 8/12.
SPONSORED: The Voyage of the Blossom Sailing for science! Set a course for adventure in this Museum-created exhibit celebrating the fabled voyage of the Blossom. Explore tales of mutiny, adventure and discovery as you experience the expedition that built the Museum's collections nearly a century ago. Sat 3/24 through Sun 8/5. Details.
SPONSORED: Murder at the Museum Think and Drink at Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Wed 3/21 at 5PM. Find out about the Kingsbury Run Murders (AKA the Torso Murders) with the Cleveland Police Museum. While you discover more about murder and forensic science, investigate a murder at the Museum! Details.
SPONSORED: Celebrate Women and Girls in Science at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History starting at 10AM on Sat 2/10 on International Women and Girls in Science Day. A full day packed with hands-on activities and opportunities to meet real female scientists from around the region, plus a family-friendly panel discussion and a screening of The Bearded Lady Project. Details.
Roar in the New Year at the Cleveland Museum Of Natural History with special giant dinosaur egg drops and see what surprise awaits inside! Special extended Sunday morning hours and hands-on activities throughout the Museum promise to make this a day at the Museum not soon to be forgotten and frequently called to mind.
The fun starts on Sun 12/31 at 10AM, with egg drops at noon, 1PM and 2PM. See a planetarium show for an additional $5/ticket. Details.
SPONSORED: Museum Under the Stars Spend your Wednesday evening exploring the wonders of the night sky at Museum Under the Stars, every non-Think and Drink Wednesday at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The evening includes special planetarium shows and (weather permitting) the opening the Museum's observatory. Dinner specials and beer and wine available. Details.
Here's the theory: maybe if women scientists could grow facial hair, they'd be taken more seriously as scientists.
This humorous photo exhibit is The Bearded Lady Project, and it kicks off a new series of lectures, special exhibits and programs at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History entitled, Celebrating Women In Science- Presented by KeyBank. CoolCleveland spoke with Dr. Denise Su, head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at CMNH, who had the bright idea to put fake beards on women scientists and exhibit the photos.
Plus the series includes an exhibit on careers in science for women and girls entitled, I Am A Woman In Science. Running through Sun 2/18/18, the series features panel discussions, videos, and even a pizza party.
Dinofest roars back to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 10AM to 4PM on Sat 11/11. Dig into some dino-sized fun at the only event in Cleveland that puts you in front of the world's leading dinosaur experts in a day filled with special talks, classes and activities everyone can enjoy.
Dinofest day includes presentations by leading paleontologists on their latest dinosaur discoveries from the field, special art workshops to hone your dino drawing skills, and activities including paleontological site mapping, a fossil dig pit, and more! Full info at CMNH.org/dinofest.
SPONSORED: Owls and Howls Hoot like an owl, howl like a coyote and hoof it down to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for an early Halloween treat! Learn about the serious business of animal enrichment and see animal ambassadors at work and play. Enjoy games, crafts, pumpkin decorating and special animal demonstrations - all in a not-so-spooky setting! Details here.
In a brilliant re-imagining of their primo location on Wade Oval, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has created an outdoor cornucopia of wildlife, foliage, birds and interactive exhibits guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of the young, the old and everyone in between.
The Perkins Wildlife Center & Woods Garden features a fully immersive experience where visitors walk below the waterline teeming with fish, turtles and otters, stare face to face with packs of coyotes, and find themselves nose to beak with our regional outdoor rock stars, the Peregrine Falcon. Listen in with Harvey Webster, director of wildlife resources, as he shows us around.
SPONSORED: Raise a glass and increase your knowledge of the natural world at one of the brainiest Happy Hours in the region. Think and Drink with the Extinct is back and you can sip a beverage while gaining exclusive access to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's professional staff and researchers. Join in on interactive demonstrations, unique perspectives while noshing on complimentary light snacks and a cash beer/wine bar. Join us on Wed 4/19 with Platform Beer Company to drink & think about entomology. CMNH.org.
Plants and animals have evolved over the centuries to escape their predators, to hold their breath under water, to find food in the most difficult of circumstances, and to survive in the face of extinction. CoolCleveland talks exclusively with Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator and head of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as he offers a sneak peek at their new exhibit, Amazing Species: Life at the Limits, on view through 07.09.17.
Featuring live animals, oversize models, and fun interactive exhibits, Amazing Species brings you face to face with the superstrong Hercules Beetle, the burrowing mole rat, and the odorous Corpse Flower.
SPONSORED: Dark Matter & Dinosaurs Come to the Explorer Series Lecture at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to hear Dr. Lisa Randall, Professor of Physics at Harvard University and one of today's mostly influential and highly cited theoretical physicists for an exploration of the connections between the mysteries of dark matter, our cosmic environment and the conditions for life on earth, with a little pop culture, politics and sociology thrown in for good measure. Fri 3/3 at 5:30PM. CMNH.org
SPONSORED: Mother's Milk is Older Than Dinosaurs Come to the Explorer Series Lecture at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to hear Dr. Katie Hinde of Arizona State University talk about how mother's milk is the food, medicine, and message that organizes a baby's brain, body and behavior. What we take for granted in the grocery store dairy aisle has been shaped by hundreds of millions of years of natural selection. Fri 2/10 at 5:30PM. CMNH.org