Darwin and Love
February 14, 2010 — 16:00

KrieBel: used with permission

Join us as we celebrate Darwin Day on Valentine's Day with a lively lecture on courtship and sexual selection by Dr. David Green, Director of the Redpath Museum.

FREE: all are welcome, no reservations necessary.
Please join us in the Museum’s auditorium. In English.

Nuit blanche - Flashlight tours
February 27, 2010: 23h45, 2h and 4h

Flashlight tours of the museum's secret spots and special exhibits. Follow the student guides from the Redpath Museum Club as they take you on a flashlight tour of the Museum after a historical introduction in the Victorian Lecture Hall.
ON this NIGHT ONLY check out a special display of "optics" sponsored by ANTOINE LAOUN Opticien.
Suggested contribution at the door: $5 adult / $2 for student or senior. No reservations necessary.

Archivaldo

March break at the Museum
March 1st-5th, 11h - 14h daily

Learn about Canadian dinosaurs and fold your own origami dinosaur to take home. Free, but donations welcome. No reservation necessary. Bilingual, with student guides from the Redpath Museum club.

Dawson Gallery, 2nd floor, Redpath Museum. Tel: 514-398-4094.

Digging for Words
March 14 at 15:00

Where does the word "television" come from? Or "mosquito"? How about "cookie"? Come and dig up the answers in the Dawson Gallery with Mark Abley, author of Camp Fossil Eyes: Digging for the Origins of Words (ages 9+). Free! Everyone welcome. No reservation necessary. In English.

Torsten Bernhardt

Glass in Nature
March 28 at 14:00

Learn about the wonderful world of silica (SiO₂) and the many and varied natural life forms it supports, including sponges and rare fossil animals from the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. Silica is also the main component of mermaid’s tears and volcanic glass. This presentation accompanies the launch of a new temporary exhibit — Nature in Glass — highlighting the Museum's collection of Blaschka glass models.

Please join us in the auditorium. Free, everyone welcome. No reservation necessary. In English.

Pygmy seahorse by Steve Childs. Public domain.

Earth Day Celebration

SOS (Save Our Seahorses)
April 25th at 16:00

Special lecture by Dr. Sara Lourie of the Redpath Museum. Learn about these unique fish and the world-wide conservation programs helping to protect them.

Free, but donations welcome. No reservations necessary. Please join us in the Museum’s auditorium.