What's Next
Open Doors
Every Saturday and Sunday
10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Included with museum admission
Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms on the weekends. Every Saturday and Sunday, chat with research staff and volunteers working with collections, and find out how collections answer questions about our world.
Onsite Field Trips start November 12
Give your students a museum experience unlike any other. Exhibits and visible labs surround you during facilitated lessons and activities, giving learners a more holistic understanding of the subjects covered during your field trip. Watching the work and people in the visible labs, workrooms and collections is inspiration for students to see themselves as a scientist, collections manager or artist. Programs and more information at burkemuseum.org/fieldtrips.
I Dig Dinos starts January 2020
January – April 2020
Last Sunday of the month
11 AM – 4 PM
Included with museum admission
Bring your budding paleontologist to explore fossilized fun at five hands-on stations designed especially for early learners. Hold fossils and casts at the touch table, make scientific discoveries in the dig pit, engage in dramatic play, try our dino/not dino sorting game, and create a craft to take home.
Our fossil lab is always active on I Dig Dino Sundays! Get this month’s Dig Challenge, then head for the 3rd floor on a Jurassic quest to see the latest fossils being prepared in the paleontology lab, explore our fossil exhibit, and earn your prehistoric prize! Craft, touch table, and dig challenge theme changes monthly so there’s always something new.
Please note: I Dig Dinos is open to everyone but is geared toward ages 3-7.
Upcoming I Dig Dinos Themes
- January: Flight and Feathers
- February: Ice Ages
- March: Mesozoic Monsters
- April: Dino Environments
NiteLife Starts January 2020
Select dates from 6–9 PM
Ages 21+
Themed after-hours cocktail events where you can get up closer to collections, enjoy the galleries with your friends, and partake in themed activities and cocktails.
Upcoming NiteLife Events:
- January 24 | Earth
- March 20 | Fire
- May 15 | Wind
- Summer 2020 | Water
- Fall 2020 | Heart
First Members' Behind-the-Scenes Night in the New Burke!
February 26, 2020
Go behind the glass into collections and workrooms at this members-only event.
Become at member today at burkemuseum.org/join!
