Building a Museum for the Future

All on Board to Design a New Museum

Field Season is Underway at Burrell Orchard

Mother’s Day weekend was quite an event in the Discovery Center this year. We became moms to nine new baby chicks—with more to come!

Museum librarian goes back to school at Yale University

All hail Sir Lancelot, the newest member of the Perkins Wildlife family!

The Museum adds a peregrine falcon to its collection!

Glove-trained raptors at the Museum

Eddie the Groundhog painted his first masterpiece of 2013 earlier this week!

How Museum animals benefit from leftover Christmas trees

Checking in on the Museum's new coyote

A summer spent in search of song

Each summer, the Museum hosts a number of student interns from colleges and area high schools. 

Internship takes student to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a remarkable experience

No easy task: Wildlife specialist Nikki McClellan trains Jake the turkey to enter his kennel

From caterpillar to butterfly in the Museum's Smead Discovery Center

How the Museum's collections are used by curators and visiting scientists from around the world

High school students get hands-on scientific experience

At the Perkins Wildlife Center, there's more to animal care than feeding time and cleaning cages