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Featured Events & Programs

NIGHTS OUT

The Evolutionary History of Eastern North America

Thursday, November 14
6:30 – 8:30 PM 

Eastern North America is a hotspot of ancient groups of animals and plants — but are they recent transplants, or ancient holdovers? From dinosaurs to today’s living fossils, Chase Brownstein will walk us through evolutionary history to explore the answers that may lie within fossil records and the genes of animals living among us today. Open to adults and teens 14+

FREE TO ATTEND!

Holiday Market Sip & Shop

Thursday, December 5
5 – 8 PM

Drop in to Sip & Shop Local for the Holidays! Peruse gifts and products from 20+ vendors, including hand knits, geodes & minerals, clothing, jewelry, candles, paper & stationery, home décor, crafted wooden goods, wellness items, and more. Enjoy complimentary champagne and gingerbread cookies while you shop — we’ll even have toasty hot adult beverages available to purchase in support of the SM&NC!

SM&NC MEMBERS ONLY

Winter Wonder Walks

Friday & Saturday
December 6 & 7

Take an evening stroll along the luminary-lit Wheels in the Woods trail!

Join us for a magical evening stroll along the luminary-lit Wheels in the Woods trail. Along the way, visit stations to learn about evergreens, make snow, discover new facts about winter animals, and more. Afterward, roast a marshmallow and sip some cocoa.

COMING SOON

Dinosaur Discoveries:Ancient Fossils, New Ideas

On view Oct 5, 2024 – Jan 5, 2025

in our Bendel Mansion Museum Galleries

This groundbreaking exhibition highlights ongoing, cutting-edge dinosaur research by American Museum of Natural History paleontologists and other leading scientists from around the world. It explores how paleontologists today are using an incredible array of new technologies — from bioengineering computer software to CT scans — along with new discoveries and new ideas to investigate and reinterpret many of the most persistent and puzzling mysteries of dinosaurs, such as what they really looked like and how they actually moved and behaved, as well as the complex and hotly debated theories of why — or even whether — they became extinct.

CAMPAIGN FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Phase II: Planetarium & Astronomy Center Underway

On the morning of May 23, 2023, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center officially broke ground on the Phase II Planetarium & Astronomy Center. 

The 11,000-square-foot facility will reinvigorate a core pillar of the SM&NC’s Mission and bring our organization’s Planetarium and Observatory programs under the same roof for the first time in our 90-year history. Astronomy programming has long been a Mission signature ever since our first astronomy classes were held in 1941. They continue to this day, and will abound in the years to come.

Upcoming Programs & Events

Nov 15

Daily Otter Feeding

November 15 @ 12:00 pm

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Nov 16

Daily Otter Feeding

November 16 @ 12:00 pm

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Nov 16

Meet the Animals Drop-In

November 16 @ 3:30 pm

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Nov 17

Daily Otter Feeding

November 17 @ 12:00 pm

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