Upcoming Events

Join us for a story followed by an activity that can range from learning about a real specimen from our collections to crafting a thematic piece of artwork! Crafts and Tales (formerly Storytime at the Sam) takes place at 11:15 a.m. in the Great Hall every Wednesday. 

Join us for a magical day as we explore bioluminescence! This bilingual (English and Spanish) program will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. This program will feature crafts based on the glow of marine life, as well as the glimmer of land critters. There will be a variety of activities ranging from glow-in-the-dark stencil art to learning about what crawls beneath our feet! All activities are free with general admission. En español: ¡Únete a nosotros para un día…

¡Únete a nosotros para un día mágico en el que exploraremos la bioluminiscencia! Este evento tendrá actividades de arte basadas en la fluorescencia de la vida marina y las luces tenues de criaturas terrestres. ¡Vamos a tener una variedad de actividades que abarcan desde manualidades fluorescentes hasta el aprendizaje de las criaturas que viven debajo del suelo que pisamos! Todas las actividades son gratis con la admisión general.

Join us for a day of uncovering the unique world of bats! WildCare, a local animal rehabilitation center, will be on site to answer any questions you may have about helping injured animals. Do you have questions that you have always wanted to ask a mammal expert? Well, we’ll have those too! Dr. Brandi Coyner, mammalogy curatorial associate, will be answering questions and unveiling the threats that bats face. Through crafts and activities, you’ll also have the chance to learn…

Explore the amazing life of bats! After a short exploration and introduction with a museum scientist, we will travel by caravan to a local park to encounter high-flying mammals and more! Deadline to Register: July 15 Price: $10 (Member Adult or Youth) and $15 (Non-Member Adult or Youth)

Are aliens real? How do scientists see deep space? Who are our space heroes? All of these questions will be answered, and more! Join us for a day of crafts and hands-on activities to better understand our galaxy. There will also be presentations by astronomer Dr. Wisniewski, astronomer, and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, from Science Museum Oklahoma! This bilingual (English and Spanish) program will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. All activities are free with general admission. 

What kinds of animals, plants and other organisms call ponds home? Join us as for some slippery, scaly fun to find out! We will meet at a Norman park and learn about frogs, fish, insects and other water-dwelling creatures. Deadline to Register: August 13 Price: $10 (Member Adult or Youth) and $15 (Non-Member Adult or Youth)

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: August 16 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: August 20 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: August 20 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Under the cloak of darkness, the Sam Noble Museum beckons! Join us for a night of trivia, games and hands-on natural history. Explore our exhibits after hours, win prizes and experience the Sam Noble Museum like never before. You will also have the chance to check out our visiting exhibit In the Dark before it goes “dark” for good. Deadline to Register: September 3 Price: $25 (Member) $30 (Non-Member)

Join Sam Noble Museum educators and Cleveland County horticultural educator Courtney Dekalb-Meyers to learn about the wonderful world of butterfly gardening! Your family will discover what kinds of flowers and plants can attract butterflies, explore the museum’s flower garden, make a fun butterfly craft, and get your own butterfly garden starter kit to take home! Deadline to Register: August 27 Price: $10 (Member Adult or Youth) and $15 (Non-Member Adult or Youth)

Have you ever wanted to tag and release a butterfly? This may be your chance! Join us as we learn about butterflies native to Oklahoma and monarch migration, and you will even receive a special packet of wildflower seeds to take home (while supplies last)! Okies for Monarchs will be here to answer any questions you may have about these special pollinators, and Cleveland County horticulture educator Courtney Dekalb- Meyers will present a talk. Fly along with us as we…

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: September 6 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: September 20 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: September 24 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: September 24 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: October 4 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Participate in a global science festival while assisting with the digitization of our collections! Participants will get to interact with real specimens to upload onto the database. This is a global event and live feeds will be on display throughout the afternoon to showcase everyone’s hard work! You will also get the chance to tour behind-the-scenes in some of our collections to see where your specimens have been stored all these years. Because of the nature of the event, typing…

Join artist Thomas Shahan to learn how to capture images of the tiniest of creatures! Families will learn the basics of macrophotography, visit the museum’s temporary exhibit Beautiful Beasts, make a fun craft and go outside to take photographs of their own. Deadline to Register: October 15 Price: $15 (Member Adult or Youth) and $20 (Non-Member Adult or Youth)

Join us for a day of sticky, stretchy and spooky fun! How did spider webs evolve? How do spiders liquidate their prey? These are a few of the weird and spooky questions we will craft our way through. Be sure to hunt for the spiders around the museum and learn about the things around which spiders crawl in Oklahoma! This bilingual (English and Spanish) program will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. All activities are free with general…

Are you looking for a unique way to take photographs? Join us as we work with artist Thomas Shahan to learn some new and interesting approaches to capturing the perfect shot. Participants will learn about macrophotography techniques, visit the museum’s temporary exhibit Beautiful Beasts before taking macrophotographs on the museum grounds. Deadline to Register: October 15 Price: $25 (Member) $30 (Non-Member)

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: October 18 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Join us to learn all about Día De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead! Day of the Dead is a Hispanic holiday that is celebrated all over Latin America. The Hispanic American Student Association (HASA) will be collaborating with the museum to provide Spanish content on-site! Part of a 3,000-year-old tradition, visitors will learn about celebrating the life that is no longer with us. As a natural history museum, visitors can also learn about and celebrate the animals who…

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: November 1 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: November 5 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: November 5 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

What makes a lightbulb light up? How do circuits work? We will learn the answers to these questions as we tinker away with simple circuits and lemon lightbulbs before making our own light up creation to take home! Deadline to Register: November 12 Price: $15 (Member Adult or Youth) and $20 (Non-Member Adult or Youth)

Introduce your little learner to science concepts through doing, discovering and making! Each stand-alone program explores a different theme and features stories, games, songs, crafts and museum exploration. Little Scientists is for children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Deadline to Register: November 22 Price: $5 (Member Adult or Youth) and $7 (Non-Member Adults or Youth)

Join us for a night of Jurassic proportions! Go behind the scenes as we take a tour of the vertebrate paleontology preparation lab and meet paleontologists from the museum. Afterwards, we will tour the Hall of Ancient Life and participate in microfossil picking. Deadline to Register: December 3 Price: $25 (Member) $30 (Non-Member)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: December 3 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)

Earn a belt loop or pin at the museum! The Sam Noble Museum offers workshops for Scouts and troops throughout the year. Scouts explore museum galleries and engage in hands-on activities to earn a badge, loop or pin. Deadline to Register: December 3 Price: $15 (Scout) and $7 (Accompanying Adult)