Press Releases
July 7, 2025
• New hands-on Space Sciences exhibit, Our Cosmic Coast, opens to the public July 12, 2025
• Experience explores tides, Moon phases, gravity, meteorites, and more
June 26, 2025
Museum and Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) revealed first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
May 21, 2025
Voted in the top three butterfly gardens in the country, Butterflies Alive! exhibit to open soon.
Features about 1,000 live butterflies from over two dozen beautiful tropical species.
April 14, 2025
One of Santa Barbara’s summer favorites is in the running for the nation’s Best Butterfly Garden: the Sprague Butterfly Pavilion at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH).
April 14, 2025
Opening April 25, 2025, the new exhibition Drawn from Nature: The Maximus Legacy at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) marks 30 years of appreciating the art of science.
January 23, 2025
A new exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History features the living art of Chumash basketry, a tradition with deep roots in the region.
December 20, 2024
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, proudly presents Fashion Fatale: The Human Obsession with Feathers.
October 10, 2024
From Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, October 13, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will host its 6th Annual The Artist’s Table Art Show, a fundraiser for Museum education programs.
May 20, 2024
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will open its extremely popular annual summer exhibit Butterflies Alive! on Saturday, May 25 through Monday, September 2 (Memorial Day through Labor Day wee
May 10, 2024
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s latest exhibit depicts birds with some of the most elaborate feathers in the world.
February 29, 2024
On January 12, 2024, the SB Museum of Natural History closed its Chumash Life exhibit to comply with new federal regulations that were released under the Native American Graves Protection Act.
June 13, 2023
On June 3, 2023 the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History opened the art exhibit Curious by Nature: Works of Charley and Edie Harper (organized by Springfield Museum of Art and Fowler Artistic LLC).
June 1, 2023
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History opened its extremely popular annual summer exhibit Butterflies Alive! on Saturday, May 27.
April 20, 2023
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is reopening its permanent mineral exhibit and once more inviting the public to marvel at astonishing rocks and crystals.
March 6, 2023
Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were disregarded because of their gender.
October 18, 2022
From November 11–April 30, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will exhibit portraits of Native people, landscapes, and culture by the influential ethnographic photographer Edward S. Curtis.
September 27, 2022
Fall/Winter Exhibit Features 300 Years of Owl Illustration
June 2, 2022
Spectacular new summer exhibit explores the value we place on nature.
May 23, 2022
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History opens its popular summer exhibit Butterflies Alive! on Saturday, May 28.
April 11, 2022
A new exhibit featuring 20 original nineteenth-century hand-colored lithographs of exotic hummingbirds is opening at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Friday, May 6.
