Wild Weekends

On selected weekends and holidays during the year, families can create crafts, engage in special interactive activities, examine museum specimens, meet live animals, and see special presentations. Free with museum admission.

dinosaur mount of Tyrannosaurus rex

Paleopalooza

Saturday and Sunday, February 18 and 19, 10 am–5 pm

Join us for our annual Paleopalooza festival, a fossil-filled extravaganza at the Academy that’s fun for the whole family! Talk one-on-one with paleontologists about their work, watch as we work on the bones of a massive titanosaur, and join Buddy the T. rex and Dr. Scott Sampson from the PBS hit series Dinosaur Train.