Summer

Summer Camps at the Museum

 

UAF Summer Sessions Camps

Sculpture at the Museum

Students entering grades 2-3: June 24-28, 2024, 9 am - noon
Students entering grades 4-6:
June 24-28, 2024, 1 pm - 4 pmSculpture icon

Build, assemble, attach, and decorate! In this camp, we will use shapes and various tactile and colorful materials to make sculptures. Students will be inspired by daily tours of the UA Museum's collection and grounds. Tell a story, create an animal, or just have fun with shapes! Each activity will provide campers with a hands-on experience and great works of 3-D art to take home.

Register through UAF Summer Sessions.

 

Entomology Camp

For students entering grades 7-12

July 8-12, 2024, 1 pm - 4 pm Bug Icon

Learn all about the diversity and natural history of insects by observing, collecting, and learning to identify insects, spiders, and more. Students will spend time outside collecting, take a closer look at specimens using microscopes, tour the UA Museum Entomology department, and create their own collection to bring home.

Register through UAF Summer Sessions.

 

Bug Camp

For students entering grades 3-7

Session I: July 15-19, 2024, 9 am - noon
Session II:
July 22-26, 2023, 1 pm - 4 pmPurple Bug Icon

Learn about Alaska’s insects and their relatives - from our beautiful butterflies and dragonflies to our less-loved mosquitoes and spiders. Through field, forest and pond, under rocks, in flowers and everywhere else, we’ll collect (catch and release some, keep others to build a collection of preserved specimens campers can take home) and study these fascinating many-legged tiny animals.

Register through UAF Summer Sessions.

 

Dinosaur Camp

Students entering grades 2-3: August 5-9, 2024, 1 pm - 4 pm
Students entering grades 4-6: August 5-9
, 2024, 9 am - noon Dino icon

Discover dinosaurs and other fossils, including those found right here in Alaska. Find out what it is like to be a paleontologist and get hands-on with real specimens from the UA Museum's collections.

Register through UAF Summer Sessions.

 


 

**2024 information coming soon!**

Space Camp 2023

A child jumps onto a stomp rocket launcher in front of the museum.

Learn  about space science through hands-on activities.  Topics include the aurora, rockets, our Solar System, and more. Experience the wonder of outer space with us this summer!

Session I: May 31-June 2, 2023. 9 am-noon. For 5-7 year olds.
$90 (non-member),  $75 (UAMN member)

Session II: June 5-9, 2023. 9 am-noon. For 8-12 year olds. 
$150 (non-member), $115 (UAMN member)

Taught by UAMN educators.


Scholarships available. Inquire at UA-museumlearn@alaska.edu.

 

Space Camp is proudly presented by Dr. Walt & Marita Babula.

UAMN image by J.Arseneau

NASA partner logoNASA HEAT logo

 

UAMN is a partner in the NASA Heliophysics Education  Activation Team (HEAT). NASA HEAT supported under cooperative agreement number NNH15ZDA004C.

 

 


 

Visit our Virtual Museum page or check the calendar for additional opportunities.