Open seven days a week.

10:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m., including holidays with the exception of December 25th when we are closed to the public.

Admission is FREE. Tickets are not required

Our mission is to promote understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

The museum’s collections tell the history of the planet and are a record of human interaction with the environment and one another.

We steward a collection of 147 million specimens and artifacts. Each one reflects a moment in space and time; in these moments we find Earth’s story.

And our researchers continue to glean critical new information from these objects. These discoveries about the past help us model and anticipate the future.