Your generous support helps increase our education outreach, creates new exhibits, funds our conservation research, and builds healthy animal habitats.
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When you’re a Nature Museum member, every day is filled with a little bit of Wonder!
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Your generous support helps increase our education outreach, creates new exhibits, funds our conservation research, and builds healthy animal habitats.
Adopt-an-Animal
Our living collection is beloved by people of all ages. You can play a direct role in the care of these special and unique animals.
Do you ever wonder how a butterfly gets its colors? Or how turtles hibernate? Do you wonder how birds know where to migrate each year? For over 160 years, the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum has served a unique role in the city of Chicago connecting children of all ages to nature and science through immersive exhibits, fun family events, important conservation research and in-depth education programs, inspiring the wonder in all of us.