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. 

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)

Come join us for a free global science program of digitizing collections! Participants will receive specimen data to transcribe into the database. This is a global event and live feeds will be displayed throughout the day to showcase everyone’s hard work! Goodie bags will be provided but sign up fast because spots are limited! Because of the nature of this event, typing skills will be necessary, so these activities are best suited for those 10 and up. All program registrants…

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)