Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences

The Nature Museum offers fun, summer day camp sessions focused on nature and science education utilizing both outdoor and indoor spaces. Campers will build on their natural curiosity to discover, explore, and learn about the world around them.

The Nature Museum offers fun, summer day camp sessions focused on nature and science education utilizing both outdoor and indoor spaces. Campers will build on their natural curiosity to discover, explore, and learn about the world around them. In each unique camp session, campers use observing and questioning skills to explore the museum, local habitats, and many living things nearby.

Campers will spend time on the museum grounds, in exhibits, and using the collections to learn more about the nature of Illinois. Highlights include escape room style games, puzzles, and challenges, animal encounters and feedings with resident turtles, and flexing scientific skills with the Curator of Turtle Conservation.

Encourage a love for nature and science throughout middle school with special camps just for tweens. Campers will spend time on the museum grounds, in exhibits, and using the collections to learn more about the nature of Illinois. Highlights include: Escape room style games, puzzles, and challenges; Animal encounters and feedings with our resident turtles; Flexing scientific skills with the Curator of Turtle Conservation through scientific drawings, observations, and outdoor explorations.

Winter Camp embraces all that Mother Nature has to offer, giving children ages four to nine the opportunity to join us for a few days of wintry fun. Campers will spend time outside on the museum grounds, as well as inside the museum exploring our exhibits and collections.