Featured Events
Friday, October 23
Join us at the Museum for a special evening celebrating the three-year anniversary of the Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area! Enjoy guest lecturer Sean Hastings, Pol...
6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Saturday, October 24 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sunday, October 25 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tuesday, October 27
Presented by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Join award-winning writer and wildlife biologist Sophie Osborn for an illustr...
Join award-winning writer and wildlife biologist Sophie Osborn for an illustr...
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Saturday, October 31
Come enjoy the Museum and Sea Center in animal costume for Halloween! Push the easy button and put on that animal onesie that's sitting in your closet, or go all out and cr...
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Saturday, October 31 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Saturday, October 31
Fly along with us at one of two special showtimes to meet our resident planetarium witch and her horde of supernatural ghoul-friends. All ghosts, goblins and monsters are f...
12:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sunday, November 1 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Monday, November 2
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, join us for an evening celebrating the preservation and revival of Native languages as we watch a documentary with special...
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Tuesday, November 3
Learn how to press algae for fun, art, and scientific preservation! Join us at the Sea Center on Stearns Wharf for a two-part course on Tuesday evenings, November 3 and 17,...
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
