Upcoming Event Category: For the Family

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Founders’ Day Treasure Hunt 2025 – Find the Meg Tooth

For the Family Open to the Public Special Event

Our 96th birthday as an organization is coming up. For the past three years, we have used Founders’ Day to honor and highlight a particular person’s contribution to the organization. However, with all of the renovations and changeover of exhibits, we decided to celebrate a little bit differently. The one thing that all who have been […]

Cost: $0

Texas Quarry Tour, Family Friendly

Photo by Jayne Ash

Field Experiences For the Family Open to the Public Tours Tours

Digging holes seems like child’s play. But not when you’re the crew at Martin Marietta’s Texas Quarry. Their hole isn’t measured in feet, but rather miles: a mile long and a half mile wide, to be exact. This massive pit was the source of marble that built the walkway to the Capitol in Annapolis and […]

Cost: $0-10

Chomp & Charm –Shark Tooth Necklace Make n Take 

Art For the Family Fossils

You are never fully dressed without a fossilized shark tooth necklace you make yourself! Drop into the museum between 10-2 to create a wearable piece of history featuring an authentic Otodus shark tooth* from Morocco—an ancient ancestor of the massive megalodon. For centuries, shark teeth have been worn as symbols of protection, strength, and effortless cool.  We provide all […]

Cost: $20-25