Academy Summer Camp is back for its sophomore season! In 2026, we're doubling our offerings to eight week-long summer camp sessions designed for children ages 9–11 where they’ll reimagine ways to ...

Help everyone stay healthy: It's not required, but we encourage all guests to stay up-to-date on their vaccinations and to mask up indoors. If you’re feeling sick or have been in close contact with ...

The California Biodiversity Data Exchange is a groundbreaking collaboration between Cal Academy, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and iNaturalist that transforms community ...

Monday–Saturday: 9:30 a.m–5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.) Sunday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.) Thursday NightLife (21+ with ID): 6–10 p.m. (last entry 9 p.m ...

Help everyone stay healthy: It's not required, but we encourage all guests to stay up-to-date on their vaccinations and to mask up indoors. If you’re feeling sick or have been in close contact with ...

Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon was born on September 3, 1836 in New Gloucester, Maine. At a young age, she dealt with the tragedy of her mother’s death. Therefore, she had a stronger connection with her ...

For ichthyology curator Luiz Rocha, childhood was defined by fish and sea. “I had aquaria starting from age 5 or 6,” he says, “and I decided to be a biologist when my third grade science teacher ...

Educators will notice a natural progression of content spanning the earth and life sciences in this series of three clips using broad scientific data sets. Start off your unit with a hands-on, ...

The Academy is working to protect endangered creatures and habitats, and helping to shape a sustainable future.

When a marine mammal washes ashore, the forensic investigation begins. How did the animal become stranded? What can it teach us about the health of its ocean habitat? As a member of the Marine Mammal ...

Planet home “In Habitat Earth," says Ryan Wyatt, Director of Morrison Planetarium, "we’re advancing the boundaries of traditional planetarium content, which focuses primarily on astronomy and space." ...

poster or butcher paper construction paper in four different colors to represent the different spheres (we suggest blue to represent hydrosphere, green to represent biosphere, yellow to represent ...