Collections Live: Working with the Geology Collection is every Monday from 10am to 1pm. (Staff and volunteers processing geology specimens: databasing, inventory, storage, photography, etc.) A lot goes on behind the scenes in our Collections Department. Unearth some of the projects our staff and volunteers are currently working on in...

Collections Live: Processing Historic Images is every Monday from 12:30pm-3:30pm. Have an interest in historic images? "Hidden Views: Salvaging Historic Images at the Buffalo Museum of Science" is a project that aims to digitize almost 2,000 historical images relating to the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, transforming them into available...

Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Arthropoda is every Wednesday from 10am to 1pm on the Museum’s fourth floor (stair access only). Arthropods constitute roughly 75% of all animal life on earth! Catch an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Museum’s Invertebrate Zoology Collection, and bug out with museum professionals who are...

Collections Live: Geology with Joe is every Wednesday from 11am to 2pm on the Museum’s third floor. Bring your mystery rocks and fossils and learn how to identify and catalog your collection. No pre-registration required, activity is ongoing, included with Museum admission, and free for members. All Ages For all...

Take a peek into the Vertebrate Zoology Collection's spine-tingling Cabinet of Curiosities to explore the mind bending stories of some of nature's unique freaks, morbid mistakes, and seemingly scientific impossibilities! Marvel at obscure oddities, glimpse the wildly unusual, and satisfy your macabre interests. Feeling enticed yet? We invite (dare) you...