Museum Events
Saturday, October 31
Come enjoy the Museum and Sea Center in animal costume for Halloween! Push the easy button and put on that animal onesie that's sitting in your closet, or go all out and cr...
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Saturday, October 31 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Saturday, October 31
Fly along with us at one of two special showtimes to meet our resident planetarium witch and her horde of supernatural ghoul-friends. All ghosts, goblins and monsters are f...
12:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sunday, November 1 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Monday, November 2
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, join us for an evening celebrating the preservation and revival of Native languages as we watch a documentary with special...
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Saturday, November 7
The Museum will be closed all day on Saturday, November 7 for the Santa Barbara Fall Tasting Festival.
Celebrate the flavors of the season at this new outd...
Celebrate the flavors of the season at this new outd...
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Saturday, November 7
Celebrate the flavors of the season at the inaugural Santa Barbara Fall Tasting Festival, a new outdoor culinary experience for curious minds and locavores aged 21 and up....
2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Sunday, November 8
November 8, 2026 will be the last day to visit The Living Print in the Courtyard Gallery.
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Sunday, November 8 – Ongoing
Join us for some weekend fun and learning in the outdoors as Museum staff and volunteers share a brief story of nature and science at the stump circle in the Museum Backyar...
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tuesday, November 10
Presented by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Join author and journalist James McCommons to hear the dramatic story of earl...
Join author and journalist James McCommons to hear the dramatic story of earl...
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
