Featured 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
Tuesday, November 3
Learn how to press algae for fun, art, and scientific preservation! Join us at the Sea Center on Stearns Wharf for a two-part course on Tuesday evenings, November 3 and 17,...
6:00 PM–7:30 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
The Sea Center opens at noon rather than 10:00 AM on Sunday, November 8 due to waterfront road closures for a half-marathon. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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10:00 AM–12:00 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
