December 5, 2024

Celebrate another great year at Burpee Museum as we share innovation, growth, and dreams in the annual review.  Join us for a cocktails and a celebrate a matching gift for every dollar raised!  Be the SPARK that brings science to our community.

December 28, 2024

Celebrate a Holocene Holiday with Burpee Museum! Enjoy special one-day-only activities for adults and children, you will take a trip back in time to an epoch of COLD: during the Ice Age! From mammoths to glaciers to people of the Ice Age, get the opportunity to learn about this unique time period for some holiday fun!

See you after dark!

Coming Soon… January 18, 2025

Navigate the museum without the lights and shine your flashlight on other animals of the dark.  Explore the beauty of nature…and the excitement of a museum with the LIGHTS OUT!

Till Death Do Us Part!

Coming Soon…February 8, 2025

Where better to celebrate a love that lasts forever than at the Natural History Museum?

Rockford’s Largest Fossil & Dino Event

Coming Soon…March 1-3 2025

Burpee Museum’s Signature Paleontology Festival where Rockford becomes the center of the Paleo World for one weekend in March…

It’s Eggstravaganza!

Coming Soon… April 19 2025

From dino eggs to chicken eggs….celebrate spring with an event all about hatching life!

Coming in October 2025

Looking for spooky Halloween fun? Where better than the museum with the most dead things in Rockford!? BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Spooky, Historical, Barnes Mansion Tours. Learn about skulls, skins, and bones, and even try your hand at dissection!

Coming in October 2025

Enjoy special activities and fossils available on one day only! Plus, we have an unusual treat: Paleo Lab Tours!! Get up close to the paleontology collection at Burpee Museum with special Collection Tours!