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January 2019
Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Explore It!
Join us as we explore the what, why and how of the natural world! Themes for Spring 2019: Rainbows, Shadows, Pollination, Smell, Sink or Float
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »“Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large” Member preview event
Come celebrate the newest exhibit at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History! Members of the museum will get an early peek at the exhibit Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large. The exhibit's artist, Jim des Rivières, will be at the event to discuss his incredible artwork! The event will also provide light hors d'oeuvres and complimentary wine and beer. Please RSVP by Jan. 21. If you already have a Sam Noble Museum membership; RSVP Here! If you are interested…
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »February 2019
Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Free First Monday for Kids
Enjoy complimentary admission to the museum for children 17 and under. General museum admission applies to visitors 18 and over. Please note that regular admission rates and program rates apply only to school groups scheduling educational programs on Free First Mondays for Kids.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Winged Tapestries Family Opening/Super Saturdays
Put on your best pair of wings and join us at the museum to celebrate our most recent temporary exhibit, Winged Tapestries! Enjoy Insect Adventure's live bug petting zoo, go wild as an OU Fit and Rec yoga instructor leads families in animal-themed yoga, make a craft, go on a scavenger hunt and more! Don't forget to stop by our Exploration Station and explore bugs from our collection with an entomologist! Exploration Station, a craft, scavenger hunt and the Insect…
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Monte Albán: Virtual Reality Meets Archaeology
Monte Albán: Virtual Reality Meets Archaeology A presentation led by Forum Fellow Dr. Marc Levine, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator of Archaeology. Event Co-Sponsored with the Department of Anthropology and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. 4:30PM-6:00PM Presentation and discussion, Robert S. Kerr Auditorium 6:00PM-6:30PM Reception, W.R. Howell Pleistocene Plaza Featuring vistor scholars: Dr. Javier Urcid, Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies & Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University Alex Badillo, doctoral student in Anthropology,…
Find out more »2019 True Family Lecture
A free public address Wednesday, February 20 at 7:00 p.m. Human Dignity and the Practice of Human Development Dr. Paulo G. Carozza Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Free and open to the public Sponsored by St. Thomas Moore University Parish, OU's Catholic Student Association, Campus Activities Council Speakers Bureau, OU Student Government Association and made possible by the Agnes M. and G. Herbert True endowed lectureship that…
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Adults Only Night at the Museum
Experience the Sam Noble Museum like never before during a night of trivia, games and hands-on natural history! Have a beer under the mammoth in our Pleistocene Plaza while playing trivia and competing for prizes (and bragging rights). Explore our exhibits after hours with a selfie scavenger hunt, race your friends in a make-and-take challenge, perfect your photo booth selfie game and more! Enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar all night long! This program is for adults 21+.…
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Cathey Simmons Humphreys Distinguished Education Lecture Series
Dean Gregg Garn invites you to the 2018 Cathey Simmons Humphreys Distinguished Education Lecture Series presentation: Dr. Yong Zhao Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas “Nobody is Average: How focusing on strengths can benefit America’s schools” 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 Sam Noble Museum – Robert S. Kerr Auditorium Complimentary admission and parking
Find out more »Martin Gardner’s Legacy Lecture and Reception
An Evening Event Themed on the Legacy of Oklahoman Martin Gardner A free public event based on the legacy of the popular Oklahoma writer and polymath Martin Gardner will take place on Thursday night, Feb 28, in the Great Hall of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Countless mathematicians, magicians, scientists and philosophers have been inspired by Oklahoman Martin Gardner, especially by his 25-year run as the author of Scientific American’s Mathematical Games column. He…
Find out more »March 2019
Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Free First Monday for Kids
Enjoy complimentary admission to the museum for children 17 and under. General museum admission applies to visitors 18 and over. Please note that regular admission rates and program rates apply only to school groups scheduling educational programs on Free First Mondays for Kids.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Super Saturdays
Get ready for a morning of special activities and crafts! Step inside the OU Soonertarium and explore the cosmos within a traveling planetarium! Join us for Wild Yoga as an OU Fit and Rec yoga instructor leads families in animal-themed movement! Exploration Station, Meet a Herpetologist, Spot It! scavenger hunt, a craft and a selfie station will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other special activities include Little Learners at 10:10 a.m., Wild Yoga at 11 a.m. and OU…
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Yoga at the Museum
Join the Yoga classes at the museum and experience the breath, flow and serenity of natural history! Yoga – Fridays, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Museum fitness classes are available to any University of Oklahoma faculty, staff or student through OU Fitness + Recreation and the OU Wellness program. View more information here.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Discovery Time
Come to the Discovery Room for Discovery Time! Every week we will explore a different natural history topic through stories, crafts and museum objects and specimens.
Find out more »Craft: Cricket Sticks (Great Hall)
Did you know that crickets "chirp" by rubbing their wings together? Join us to learn some cricket facts and make beaded sticks that sound like chirping crickets!
Find out more »Meet a Scientist: Recent Invertebrates (Great Hall)
Check out some cool insects, spiders and other animals without backbones, then meet a scientist that studies them!
Find out more »Sounds of Science (Robert S. Kerr Auditorium)
Join the Oklahoma Museum Network for a high-energy, fast-paced demonstration and help us celebrate the incredible role sound and music play in our world. This program will be filled with exciting experiments, spectacular sounds and musical marvels.
Find out more »THAT PIE TRUCK Food Truck (Outside)
Head outside and join us for some tasty treats! THAT PIE TRUCK will be serving up both sweet and savory pies.
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