Special delivery! See our visiting baby camels (Dec. 6–19) and yaks (Dec. 20–Jan. 5) this holiday. Learn more
Programs
Ice Lab
Sat Dec 21 at 10:00 am
This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information.
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Ice Lab
Daily, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Main Floor, between Swamp and Piazza
Brrr! Explore cold-weather creatures through hands-on crafts, experiments, and demonstrations.
Creature Crafts (drop by anytime)
- Feeling crafty? Get creative and make your own polar landscape, snowy owl mask, penguin, or narwhal tusk.
Presenter Pop-ups (unscheduled; 1–4 programs daily)
- Melting Ice: Discover how temperature and salinity affect density with this cool-as-ice experiment.
- Fishing for Ice: See how salt impacts the freezing point of water and try your hand at "ice fishing."
Specimen Discovery (look for specimen carts throughout the museum)
- Bear: Examine black, grizzly, and polar bear skulls, paw prints, and pelts.
- Caribou: Touch a caribou pelt, antlers, antler velvet, and lichen.
- Snowflake: Explore ice crystal structures using microscopes.
- Comet: See how household ingredients can be combined to make a replica of these icy solar bodies.
This program is part of the 'Tis the Season for Science festival. Happy holidays!
An interactive storytime about how humans are connected to each other and the natural world. Daily, 10:15 a.m.
Learn about the winter survival strategies of polar bears and penguins in this fun trivia contest. Daily, 1 p.m.
An Academy favorite! Learn about penguins around the world in this interactive puppet show. Daily, 11 a.m.
Celebrate the season!
Frolic under flurries, enjoy festive performances, and meet baby animals at 'Tis the Season for Science, open daily through Jan. 5.
Gift scientifically!
There's snow place like the Academy for holiday shopping. From sustainable stocking stuffers to gift memberships, our holiday gift guide has something for science-lovers of all ages.
