“The Museum At Your Side” is a collection of hands-on activities, informative articles, and engaging videos to connect you with nature and science wherever you are!
Below are all of our activities at a glance:
- Guide to Collecting Fossils
- Mastodons and the Museum
- Naturalist Night: Reintroducing Fire (watch recording)
- Guide to Foraging
- Seabright and the Castle: Then and Now with Dr. Gary Griggs
- Remembering Castle Beach: Stories from the Exhibit (recording)
- Reptiles and Amphibians of the West with Charles Hood
- Collections Close-Up: Old Time Oology
- How Everyone Can Contribute to Pollinator Conservation with the Xerces Society
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: The Giants of our Solar System
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Terrestrial Planets of our Solar System
- Pollinators and Urban Community Gardens with Stacy Philpott
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Seasonal Changes of Sea Ice
- Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California with Adina Merenlender
- Ancient Scorched Seeds and Indigenous Land Stewardship with Rob Cuthrell
- Fossil Walruses and Other Ancient Life in the Monterey Bay with Dr. Robert Boessenecker
- Rock Record: Panther Beach, an Extraordinary Geologic Feature in Santa Cruz
- A Guide to the Rocks of Santa Cruz County
- Santa Cruz Top 5 Geologic Must-Sees
- Hiking With A Purpose: Post-fire community science with Josie Lesage
- On the Rocks: The Paleontologist’s Paradise
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: What even IS North America?
- CZU AND YOU
- Fire and the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve with Dr. Jodi McGraw
- A Striking August: Lightning and Wildfires with Chris Giesige
- Collections Close-Up: Preserving Cultural History After Fire with California State Parks
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Great Geologic Goodbyes
- Amah Mutsun Fire Relationships
- On the Rocks: Juneteenth Sorrel Spritz
- Human Nature: In Relationship with California Rare Plants
- Collections Close-Up: Beautiful Benitoite
- Art for Conservation with Megan Gnekow
- Collections Close-Up: Benitoite with Hilde Schwartz
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: The Ocean Floor
- Rock Record: A Closer Look at a Few of the Great Geologic Landmarks of the United States
- How to Make a Plant Press
- Coast Redwoods and Fire with Zane Moore
- Art+Science Research to Understand Joshua Tree Species Interactions Under Climate Change with Juniper Harrower
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Great Geologic Landmarks
- How a Botanical Artist Looks at a Rose with Maria Cecilia Freeman
- A Cyclist’s Guide to the Wildflowers of Santa Cruz
- Schwan Lake Guided Walk
- On the Rocks: The Equinox Elixir
- Collections Close-Up: The Life and Legacy of Randall Morgan
- Exhibit Opening Reception: The Art of Nature
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: The Moon!
- Rare Plants and Community Science in the CZU Burn Zone with Amy Patten
- New Perspectives on the Past Through Freshly Exposed Rocks
- Mini Museum Exhibit Project | 2nd Grade
- A Guide to the Fossils of Santa Cruz County
- How to Make a Spore Print
- Ten Years Since the Tsunami with the UCSC Seismology Lab
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Biogenic Geology
- Coyote Skull Activity | K-3 Grade
- Long-term lessons: Perspectives on three years of mushroom monitoring in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Christian Schwarz
- Rock Record: The Faults that Shape Santa Cruz
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: The Varieties of Volcanoes
- Collections Close-Up: Picturing Nature
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Paleoclimatology
- On the Rocks: The Solstice Sip
- Rock Record: Guide to the Swift Street Outcrop
- Naturalist Night: Santa Cruz Sandhills
- Collections Close-Up: Tide Pools and Touch
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Ice Ages
- Fire and Mud: Why Fires Cause Debris Flows in California with Noah Finnegan
- Rock Record: Santa Cruz Natural History in the Palm of your Hand
- On the Rocks: Pumpkin Pie Tai
- Naturalist Night: Coastal Prairies
- Collections Close-Up: The Interwoven History of Baskets and Museums
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Supercontinents
- Rock Record: Caverns of Time
- On the Rocks: Foraged Liqueur
- Nature Pumpkin Templates
- On the Rocks: The Macabre Martini
- Halloween Bingo
- Macabre Mushrooms: Ghouls of the Woods with Christian Schwarz
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Caves (Special Edition)
- The Basics of Taxidermy with Alex Krohn
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Building Appalachia
- Collections Close-Up: Curiosity Cabinets
- Museum of the Macabre 2020
- Celebrating California Biodiversity Day!
- Naturalist Night: Redwood Forest
- Collections Close-Up: Santa Cruz Fossils and the People Who Dig ‘Em
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Impacts of Fire on Geologic Landscapes
- Naturalist Night: Intertidal Zone
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: 115 Years of Geologic History in Santa Cruz
- Collections Close-Up: Preserving Our Past
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Coastal Geology
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: California’s State Symbols
- Naturalist Night: Santa Cruz Habitats and History
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Sea Level Rise and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Volcanoes and Mass Extinctions
- How to See Comet NEOWISE
- How to Create a Moon Phenology Wheel
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Science Communication
- Collections Close-Up: Malacology
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Ask a Scientist
- Rockin’ Pop-Up: Geologic Time Part Two
- Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond with Jen Christiansen