IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT
Parking at the SM&NC
on Friday, October 4
Thank you in advance for being mindful of Friday's parking guidelines as we open our newest gallery exhibition,
Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas.
Our Main Entrance will be CLOSED all day for Member visits and General Admission. Please use our North Entrance at 151 Scofieldtown Road.
Our Main Entrance will open at 2:30 pm only to admit guests registered to attend Opening Day.
Opening Day is free to attend, but pre-registration is required. Capacity is limited, so RSVP at stamfordmuseum.org/dinosaur to join us while space is still available.
What To Do at the SM&NC
Featured Events & Programs
Fall Family Fest Sundays
Sundays, October 6, 13 & 20
10 am – 2 pm
We’re celebrating New England's most colorful season by bundling all the fun and games of a festival with a special dinosaur twist, three Sundays this Fall!
We'll have extra attractions, enhanced programming, and fun seasonal offerings for the whole family at an all-inclusive rate, including traditional favorites and exciting new additions!
SM&NC Sunday Farm Market
Every Sunday through November 3
10 am — 2 pm
Join us each and every Sunday this summer, and pick up some great products and produce to support local agriculture. Our favorite vendors have returned along with some new friends.
SM&NC Members receive 10% off all purchases from our Heckscher Farm tent, which carries our made-on-site maple syrup and wool products, in addition to a selection of goods from local farms and businesses.
Whiskey & Woodfire
Friday, November 8
6:30 pm
Join us for an evening of “spirited” whiskey exploration paired with freshly made New Haven Style pies by the one-and-only Sally’s Apizza. Sample the robust flavors of exceptional whiskies from around the world with Brand Ambassadors.
Our event partner, BevMax will be on hand to place orders of any whiskies you may sample and wish to purchase. Adults 21+ only
Dinosaur Discoveries:Ancient Fossils, New Ideas
On view Oct 5, 2024 – Jan 5, 2025
in our Bendel Mansion Museum Galleries
Opening Day
Friday, October 4, 3:00 – 7:00 pm
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.
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 87-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.
