Celebrate World Desert Day with the Desert Museum! Join us at the Museum for special hands-on activities or enjoy virtual programs from anywhere in the world. World Desert Day is a global celebration dedicated to raising awareness, inspiring action, and cultivating appreciation for the world’s desert ecosystems and the communities, plants, and wildlife that call them home.
🌵 Virtual Programming 7:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. 🌵
--→ Discover the Desert | 7:00 a.m.
What makes a desert a desert? Celebrate World Desert Day as we compare the planet’s drylands and meet some of the diverse plants and animals that make the Sonoran Desert unique! We will explore the amazing adaptations that desert dwellers have to survive and thrive.
→ Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84057493968?pwd=G9vQyRKvFp7WAPWc3wsnQu4X8uXqbw.1
Meeting ID: 840 5749 3968
Passcode: world
--→ Biomimicry: How to Be a Desert Dweller | 3:00 p.m.
Desert plants and animals have a lot to teach us! Celebrate World Desert Day by meeting some Sonoran Desert dwellers and exploring how their survival strategies can inspire human innovation. How might their examples help us live better in the desert?
→ Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81909321688?pwd=JEafGqj8bA95aqerFbgXpskRTA1Jo9.1
Meeting ID: 819 0932 1688
Passcode: world
🌵 Hands-on Activities 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 🌵
--→ Water Catchers | Riparian Corridor | 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Explore how desert plants capture the rain and how we can harvest rainwater, too!
--→ Wonderful Watersheds and Amazing Aquifers | Mountain Woodland | 10 a.m. -2:00 p.m.
Where does all rainwater flow in the Tucson Basin? How are groundwater and surface water connected?
--→ The Buzz on Native Bees | Pollination Garden
The Sonoran Desert is a native bee hotspot. Discover their unbeelievable diversity and ways that we can protect them.
🌵 Extra On-Grounds 🌵
--→ National Parks Conservation Association will share their work on wildlife corridors and roadkill prevention
--→ Docent Tours and Demonstrations
Make the most of your visit with a tour or interpretive demonstration from a docent, who will introduce you to the wonders of the Sonoran Desert region. Docent Tours are weather/temperature dependent and may be canceled due to extreme weather conditions or heat.
→ Bird Walk: 8:30 a.m.
→ Desert Discovery Tours: 9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
--→ Visit the Ironwood Gallery for Artists for Conservation | 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
The Artists for Conservation (AFC) annual juried exhibition features over 50 works by leading contemporary nature artists dedicated to celebrating and protecting our natural world. This curated selection is drawn from the AFC Exhibit of Nature in Art—an international juried exhibition presented annually in Vancouver as the centerpiece of AFC’s programming.
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