Celebrate Spring Break with the Nature Museum!
Meet amazing animals, enjoy story times and singalongs, and explore the Nature Museum grounds! Sign up for one, two, three, or all four of our Spring Break offerings below.
Registration for all Spring Break virtual programs is free. Consider making a donation to the Nature Museum to make these programs and future virtual family events possible.
Spring Story Time with Kiki Queens
Saturday, March 27 | 11am
Join us for this fun-filled virtual story time featuring our friends from Kiki Queens! We’ll be enjoying some of our favorite story time stories, plus enjoying some fun singalongs and more.
Little Miss Ann
Wednesday, March 31 | 11am
Join Little Miss Ann (Ann Torralba), an award-winning Chicago Family Musician, and the critters of the Nature Museum for a virtual performance to celebrate the sunshine and springtime showers and flowers. Little Miss Ann will play a half hour of upbeat, interactive fun music from her 5 albums and more! So join in with the kids (and our critters) and clap along.
Wings and Talons: A Day in the Life of a Raptor
Saturday, April 3 | 11am
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a hawk? Or how a vulture learns to fly? Join us and our friends from Wings and Talons for a live virtual raptor show featuring impressive birds of prey. From fledglings to their first flight, we’ll take a closer look at the daily lives of these amazing birds and learn how their habits and habitats are affected by our own daily lives.
Spring Break Nature Walks
March 30, April 1, & April 3
Register your family for a guided nature walk through the museum’s outdoor exhibits! Learn about the plants and animals that call the museum’s grounds home. From grasses to trees to bugs to birds, you never know what we’ll see!
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.