World Ocean Day at Museum of the Earth

Visit the Museum of the Earth on World Ocean Day 2025!

World Ocean Day catalyzes collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate. It supports collaborative conservation, working with its global network of youth leaders and 2,000+ organizations in 150+ countries. World Ocean Day has been recognized since 2008 by the United Nations.

Research and outreach at the Paleontological Research Institution has always been deeply connected to oceans and their biodiversity. It started with PRI's extensive research collections of marine fossils. It now includes programs and exhibits at the Museum of the Earth highlighting the geological history of oceans and ocean life, its right whale skeleton, and its tanks of living corals from the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific seas.

Activities and tours will take place on World Ocean Day on Sunday, June 8, from 11 am to 1 pm. They will include:

-a tour of the new marvelous Mollusks exhibit, at 11 am

-a history of ocean life tour, through the Museum of the Earth exhibits, at noon

-hands-on modern and fossil mollusk shells

-crafts for learning about mollusks and other ocean life.

Activities are available to all and included in Museum admission. Admission for this event is Pay-What-You-Wish.