Summer
Summer Camps at the Museum
Space Camp 2024
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 29-31, 2024. 9 am-noon. For 5-7 year olds.
$90 (non-member), $75 (UAMN member)
Session II: June 3-7, 2024. 9 am-noon. For 8-12 year olds.
$150 (non-member), $115 (UAMN member)
Taught by UAMN educators.
Register online:
- Session I, May 29-31 (5-7 year olds).
Camp FILLED. Use the registration link to be added to the wait list.
Scholarships available. Inquire at UA-museumlearn@alaska.edu or call 907-474-6948.
Space Camp is proudly presented by Dr. Walt & Marita Babula and by NASA HEAT.
UAMN image by J.Arseneau
UAMN is a partner in the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT). NASA HEAT supported under cooperative agreement number NNH15ZDA004C.
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 pm
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 
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 pm
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 
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.
UAMN image by J.Arseneau