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Today we are celebrating Dino Day!! We have a full day of activities and prehistoric fun for all ages, included with gen...
05/31/2026

Today we are celebrating Dino Day!! We have a full day of activities and prehistoric fun for all ages, included with general admission! 💚

🦖Create your own dinosaur-themed projects to take home
💡Learn all about dinosaurs through interactive programming led by Museum staff
📗 Gather for a fun dino-themed storytime with Josh
🐢Meet live animals and discover how today’s wildlife connects to the age of dinosaurs
🎨Choose from a variety of prehistoric designs for a dino-inspired face painting
🪏Dig for fossils and explore what they can tell us about life millions of years ago
🍴Enjoy free dinosaur chicken nuggets for kids, provided by Real Good Foods!

Open from 10:00-5:00 PM! 🦕
There is still time to stop by!
Thank you to Real Good Foods sponsoring this event!

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is home to some iconic dinosaurs—now it’s your turn to choose a favorite! 🦕👑Drop...
05/30/2026

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is home to some iconic dinosaurs—now it’s your turn to choose a favorite! 🦕👑

Drop your fav in the comments below, then make your vote official for Cleveland’s favorite dino with a gift to the Museum’s Annual Fund. (link in bio!)
Your support helps advance science education, preserve irreplaceable collections, and expand access for our community.

The dinosaur receiving the highest total in donations by midnight on Tuesday, June 2, will be crowned the winner!

(P.S. Not sure who to vote for? Come visit us and meet them in person 😉)

Hello from Kenya!! ✌️Kirtlandia interns of Dr. Ebeth Sawchuk, the Museum's Curator of Human Evolution, traveled to Kenya...
05/29/2026

Hello from Kenya!! ✌️

Kirtlandia interns of Dr. Ebeth Sawchuk, the Museum's Curator of Human Evolution, traveled to Kenya to be a part of a new project called Sirikwa Highland Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), which investigates the origins of historic pastoralism in eastern Africa and the transition from the Pastoral Neolithic to Pastoral Iron Age.

They will be doing fieldwork that includes high-resolution mapping, flotation for recovering charred plant remains, DNA sampling, and lots more! This work will be followed by cataloging and museum analysis of material culture and isotopic sampling at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi.

The full team consists of directors Sawchuk & Dr. Steven Goldstein from the University of Pittsburgh, two Kirtlandia interns, two Kenyan grad students, an NMK intern, and various local collaborators.

Stay tuned to our socials for updates on the all of the Museum's Kirtlandia interns! 🌱📘

L-R: Christine Chepkorir PhD student Pittsburgh and CMNH research associate, Maxine Trujillo archaeology intern, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Paige Pemble bioarchaeology intern.

05/28/2026

Yesterday was World Otter Day, so you know we had to celebrate our favorite three river otters in Cleveland: Calvin, Atticus and Emmett! 🦦

They enjoyed an ice and fish cake (yum!), live fish hunt, and special visit from Tumble, the opossum! 🐟🎂

Want to come see the otters in person? Perkins Wildlife Center is open to visitors with general admission!

(Check out one of our Wildlife Specialist Talks in Perkins DAILY: weekdays at 12:00 and 1:30, weekends at 12:00, 1:30. and 2:30!)

Then vs. now. 🪶🌎Across cultures and generations, feathers and headwear have carried deep meaning, telling stories of ide...
05/28/2026

Then vs. now. 🪶🌎

Across cultures and generations, feathers and headwear have carried deep meaning, telling stories of identity, beauty, status, ceremony, and connection to the natural world.

Historical objects from the , including Turkana ceremonial headpieces from Kenya in the 1970s made with feathers, wire, cloth, and bird skin, and Mangbetu traditions from the Congo in the 1920s featuring sculpted hair and feathered adornment, show how feathers and headwear have long carried stories of identity, beauty, status, ceremony, and connection to the natural world.

Today, those visual languages continue to echo through fashion, costume design, and film, where designers draw inspiration from historic forms and reimagine them for new audiences.

This “then vs. now” story also connects to conservation. What was once taken directly from birds can now be interpreted through ethical materials and thoughtful design, preserving the inspiration while helping protect wildlife. 🦚

05/26/2026

Happy BEE-lated Bee Day! 🐝

Last week's fallen tree in Perkins Wildlife Center brought an extra surprise along with it--honeybees! Our staff discovered not one, but two large hives in need of rehoming before tree clean-up could begin. Thanks to Halls Hive, the queen was located, and the bees were safely removed and placed in transit to a new home!

Regardless of what generation you are, the Museum is a place worth visiting. Just trust us on this one. 😉
05/22/2026

Regardless of what generation you are, the Museum is a place worth visiting. Just trust us on this one. 😉

05/21/2026

Museum science is helping rewrite what we know about the ancient menu. 🐟🐐🌾

Museum Curator of Human Evolution Dr. Elizabeth Sawchuk contributed to a new collaborative study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study challenges long-held assumptions about one of the most important transitions in human history: the shift toward food production.

By studying ancient diets in eastern Africa, researchers found that the region’s earliest herders did not immediately become reliant on cattle, sheep, and goats after domesticated animals arrived near Lake Turkana about 5,000 years ago.

Instead, they kept things flexible.

Fish, wild animals, gathered foods, cattle, sheep, and goats all appear to have been part of the story.

Dr. Sawchuk’s ongoing Museum-supported fieldwork in Kenya’s Turkana Basin helped provide a key missing piece in the scientific record, offering new insight into how eastern Africa’s earliest herders actually lived and ate.

The takeaway? The shift toward food production may have been less of a sudden revolution and more of a creative adaptation to environment, culture, and daily life.

For more information on the study, head to the Museum’s Press Room!

Murmuration 🐦While exploring the Museum's Corning Gallery, stop and find the contemporary student design, Murmuration, b...
05/21/2026

Murmuration 🐦
While exploring the Museum's Corning Gallery, stop and find the contemporary student design, Murmuration, by Kent State University School of Fashion CC Stefanik. Inspired by the migration patterns of chimney swifts, this design mimics the amorphous formations of Chimney swifts that bend, stretch, and fold over themselves, creating mesmerizing displays called a murmuration.
At dusk, chimney swifts will swirl and funnel into chimneys where they rest for the night. This piece captures that eye-catching display and brings it to life on the human form—the shape bends and flows as the legs move, just as a murmuration does in flight. The fence-linked tulle is transparent at some angles, leaving a clear view to the center body, and opaque near the edges.
This look borrows concepts from the chimney swift’s iconic migration pattern to create unique, interesting, and kinetic shapes that are hard to look away from.
See Murmuration in Fashion & Feathers at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where movement in nature is translated into wearable form.

We were honored to host Youth Advisory Council presentation at the Museum this past weekend!Thank you to everybody who ...
05/20/2026

We were honored to host Youth Advisory Council presentation at the Museum this past weekend!

Thank you to everybody who helped make this event happen, and for encouraging and inspiring our next generation of leaders. 🩵

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