Fall 2025 Digging Information We appreciate your interest in volunteering with us! The Fall 2025 digging schedule will likely run from October through mid-December. We receive so much interest in volunteering from the community that we are not always able to accommodate everyone who submits
process and store the collected fossils, you can use this secure link to donate online
Ornithology is one of the Florida Museum’s earliest formally recognized scientifically themed collections. It was the first to have a dedicated curator when Charles Doe donated his life’s work–the Doe Egg Collection–and joined the Museum under Thompson van Hyning in the early 1930s. The Ornithology
Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Online Exhibit
Come to the Museum’s Science Cafés for engaging conversation about a variety of science topics. A comfortable atmosphere provides the setting for lively discussions. This event was moved from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18 due to severe weather. Topic To Bee or not to Bee: Pollinator Conservation in a Chan
Register Online Organizer Name: Chelsea Collison, Florida Museum Phone: 352
Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
Education Aucilla River Prehistory Project Pony Express Archive Fossil Horses Online
Florida Museum
asked its members to share their most beloved natural history treasures for an online
Miocene Epoch 23 to 5 million years ago During the Miocene, Florida was home to an amazing variety of plants and animals. Many of the fossil sites our paleontologists have excavated were once a pond or lake that formed within a sinkhole, like the Moss Acres Site in nearby Marion County. By exami
Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land exhibit Florida Vertebrate Fossils online
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Go on an arachnid adventure at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s new “Spiders Alive!” exhibit, opening Jan. 28. With more than a dozen live species from around the world, this exciting exhibition dives into the world of spiders, scorpions and their relatives and inform
Complete admission pricing is available online at www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/visit
Calling all artists and designers! Visit the Florida Museum for after-hours SciArt Meetups and create art inspired by Florida nature and culture! Meetup Topic Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500th anniversary year Presentations We are celebrating Da Vinci by looking at his flying machines, the airscrew an
Price $7 per person Register Online Save the date on Facebook Artists must bring
Congratulations to our 2013 winner! This year the Florida Museum hosted its first ButterflyFest Facebook Photo Challenge! The challenge was designed to educate and promote awareness of water and wildlife through photography. Photos had to include a depiction of water and wildlife together in a n
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Dating to the early 20th century, the Florida Museum Herpetology Collection is worldwide in scope (>140 countries) and houses more than 240,000 specimens/specimen lots.* It is ranked as the largest in the southeastern United States and ninth-largest in North America. The collection includes flui
Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Online Exhibit
