Children's Natural History Museum
EVENTS

 

 
MAMMOTH HOLIDAY
December 8, Saturday   (1-5 pm)
4074 Eggers Drive
Children
Price:  Members:  $5.00 per child
Non members:  $8.00 per child
Adults:
  members free; non members $2.00
tickets at the door

 
Children select their own mold to make  a mammoth tooth,  horse, pronghorn, or  camel tooth.    They will make a cast of plaster of Paris and create replicas of teeth in the museum.  The museum will be open for other activities. See the fossils of the large mammals that roamed the area during the Ice Age:

1:45-2:45 pm   Dr. Joyce Blueford  Lecture on Pleistocene Animals of the TriCity Area
3:30 - 4:30  Phil Gordon (one of the original boy Paleontologistst)  Boy Paleontologists and the Irvington Fossils

SPECIAL MUSEUM SHOP SPECIALS

 
 

  • Proceeds from this event  will go for several much needed improvements to the museum. 
  • Expansion of 1500 square foot to include how the Hayward Fault helped unearth the fossils while contributing to the large mammal extinction.
  • Redoing our entrance to allow more students to come at one time.
  • Refurnish our classroom/laboratory room.
  • New Exhibits.
  • Help fund a 13 foot replica of a Columbian mammoth which will become not only a landmark, but educational tool.  The metal structure will cost about $12,000 and will be similar to the Wooly Mammoth above.

 

 

PAST EVENTS

Return of the Boy Paleontologist, September 28,29, 2007
Mark Ferrari and Martin Eschen Reception, July 3, 2007
Dedication of  Irvingtonian Landscape by Laura Cunningham,  October, 2006
Mammoth Day, 2006
December, 2005  Evening with the Boy Paleontologist

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