Welcome to Our Museum!
The Museum is an exciting place. It is both a facility as well as a concept. It is both a reality as well as a dream. It is a never-ending treasure hunt for answers to questions. It is a constant amazement and appreciation of this blue and green planet we call Earth.
The Museum's major focus is, of course, the study of natural history. Its primary participants are the students of Sierra College who attend classes, field courses, lectures, seminars and demonstrations. But there's much available for everyone.
The Museum is also a favorite place of the regional public. Thousands each year attend seminars, programs, field trips and activities sponsored by the Museum and designed specifically for the public.
The Museum is open during regular college class hours during the week, but because there are classes in session in the building, we ask that visitors be quiet as they explore. It is open on weekends only when there are other activities in the building. For a guided tour, call 916-660-7995 and leave a message.
eJournals Online
The Journal of the Sierra College Natural History Museum is published twice a year. Each issue has articles and photos relating to science and natural history.
Also online is Snowy Range Reflections: a Journal of Sierra Nevada History and Biography is also published twice a year. Each issue concerns interesting and historic information and photos about the Sierra Nevada.
Past Lectures Available Through iTunes U
Sierra College's iTunes U allows you to view or download
audio and video podcasts to your computer or iPod directly from
iTunes. And they're all FREE!
Under Courses, Interdisciplinary has lectures on many aspects of the Sierra Nevada. Under Campus Events, Guest Lectures (then Lectures), there is a presentation on Hawver Cave in Auburn and a two part lecture on Darwin and the Galápagos Islands by Richard Hilton.
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Summer 2009 Field Trip
or what I did on MY summer vacation.
Ever wonder what it is like to go on a fossil hunting field trip? Well, in June 2009 Professors Dick Hilton, Charles Dailey and Holly Dodson led a course field trip to Flaming Gorge, Wyoming with federal permits to look for vertebrate fossils. Although it rained 6 out of 7 days, they found some good fossils and visited some beautiful places on the way home.
Here is a photo gallery of the trip.
Schedule a tour of the Museum and/or Nature Trail
Do you have some spare time and want to personally help the Museum?
Find out how to be a Museum volunteer or docent here.
Page last updated::
September 7, 2010
