Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
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Humans have been fascinated with mammoths since they first laid eyes on them. And that fascination has often been translated into art. For example, in the Rouffignac cave, in the French commune of Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac there are over 250 engravings and cave paintings dating back to the Upper Paleolithic (see image). Seventy percent or 158 of the […]
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For the Family fossils Nature Connection Open to the Public Special Event
You are invited to come toe to tusk with a Titan of the Ice Age that roamed the earth over a million years – roamed right here in Maryland – the Woolly Mammoth. NHSM is so humbled and honored to have been selected as the site to display this never-before seen mammoth skeleton. The Mammoth […]
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The Natural History Society of Maryland is honored to have been selected to host a never-before-exhibited woolly mammoth skeleton excavated in Alaska. While the last ice age, the Pleistocene, ended 12,000 years ago, its inhabitants, the megafauna and early humans, loom large in our collective imaginations. Through its Mammoth Project, the Natural History Society of […]
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live amongst Mammoths? Mason Hintermeister is a club member who spent the summer doing just that as part of an Education Internship at the 140,000 year old Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota. In this talk, he will describe how more than 50 mammoths […]
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Our SharkFest celebration begins with an opening night lecture series featuring Jay Bradley, Blue Wonders curator from the National Aquarium, and shark researcher Dr. Stacy Farina, an evolutionary and functional expert from Howard University. As the curator of the Blue Wonders: Reefs to Rainforests exhibit, Jay oversees the care of all animals housed in the […]
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Q. What does the Overlea Farmer’s Market have that no other farmers market has? A. A Natural History Museum. After you have filled your bellies, come inside and fill your minds. There are animals, fossils, plants, rocks, archaeological artifacts and even a woolly mammoth waiting for you. Complete the scavenger hunt, and win a prize. […]
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Q. What does the Overlea Farmer’s Market have that no other farmers market has? A. A Natural History Museum. After you have filled your bellies, come inside and fill your minds. There are animals, fossils, plants, rocks, archaeological artifacts and even a woolly mammoth waiting for you. Complete the scavenger hunt, and win a prize. […]
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Q. What does the Overlea Farmer’s Market have that no other farmers market has? A. A Natural History Museum. After you have filled your bellies, come inside and fill your minds. There are animals, fossils, plants, rocks, archaeological artifacts and even a woolly mammoth waiting for you. Complete the scavenger hunt, and win a prize. […]
Cost: $0
By popular demand, NHSM is expanding our public exhibit hours. Come for the Ice Age in Maryland exhibit featuring our wooly mammoth, and linger for more fossils, seashells, gemstones, archaeological artifacts, and other treasures. Admission is always free! Join us between 10 AM and 2 PM on the following First Sundays: March 3 April 7 […]
Clubs For the Family Lectures & Workshops Nature Connection Open to the Public
April is Maryland Archaeology Month, and we are pleased to bring you our annual Archaeo Expo. Archaeology has played an integral role in NHSM’s 95-year history. We are home to many artifacts that help trace the cultural story of the land we now call Maryland. Join us for a day of learning with exhibits, activities, […]
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