Education has always been central to the Florida Museum’s mission. Through school tours, teacher workshops, youth camps, and community events, the museum reaches hundreds of thousands of people each year. Programs like Science Saturdays, Ask a Scientist, and Family Discovery Days invite participants to engage directly with researchers and hand

As Florida’s landscapes face growing threats from climate change, urbanization, and habitat loss, the museum has taken on an increasingly active role in environmental advocacy and education. Its mission extends beyond documenting biodiversity—it seeks to protect it. Museum scientists collaborate with state and federal agencies, as well as co

Beyond its exhibitions, the Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the most active research museums in the country. Its scientists and curators manage over 40 million specimens and artifacts, making it one of the largest university-based collections in the United States. The research divisions encompass nearly every branch of natural scienc

The dream of a world-class facility became a reality in the 1990s with the construction of Powell Hall, the museum’s permanent home on the University of Florida’s cultural campus. Completed in 1998, Powell Hall provided the space and resources needed to serve both academic research and public education on a scale previously unimaginable. The