Behind the Scenes Collections Tour

Join the museum's collections staff to explore our natural history collections and archives at our off-site facility and learn about the history of the collection. This tour will highlight rarely seen specimens, share the complex history of the collection, and shed light on scientific research currently being conducted with specimens. You'll get a chance to see everything from study skins of now-extinct passenger pigeons to more modern examples of scientific taxidermy, and learn how both old and new specimens help scientists in their research today.

Space is limited.

Important Notes:

- The tour will be held at our off-site collections facility located at 4001 N Ravenswood Ave.

- This event is most appropriate for those 18 years and up.

- Accessibility information: The Ravenswood collections facility building is not ADA accessible.

- Health and safety information: Pesticide residue may be present on historic collections. CAS/PNNM staff will review health and safety procedures with participants at the start of the event.