Hands ON! Second Saturday – Color Me in Love

Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation Hands ON! Second Saturdays offers monthly free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances, and community collaborations. “Art Investigators” provides children the opportunity to engage with Museum staff and take a closer look at current work on view. New exhibitions, community collaborations, guest performances and monthly themes rotate in this engaging series of monthly programs.

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Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Hands ON! Second Saturday

SCHEDULE

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Hands ON! Second Saturday – Spring into Art

Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation Hands ON! Second Saturdays offers monthly free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances, and community collaborations. “Art Expeditions” provides children the opportunity to engage with Museum staff and take a closer look at current work on view. New exhibitions, community collaborations, guest performances and monthly themes rotate in this engaging series of monthly programs.

SCHEDULE

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Hands ON! Second Saturday – Prehistoric Wonders

Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation Hands ON! Second Saturdays offers monthly free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances, and community collaborations. “Art Expeditions” provides children the opportunity to engage with Museum staff and take a closer look at current work on view. New exhibitions, community collaborations, guest performances and monthly themes rotate in this engaging series of monthly programs.

SCHEDULE

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Hands ON! Second Saturday

SCHEDULE

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Hands ON! Second Saturday

SCHEDULE

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Nevada Has Dinosaurs?!

Josh Bonde, a born and raised Nevadan and proud member of the Te-Moak Band of Western Shoshone, explores his path to being an Indigenous scientist and discusses the dinosaurs that once resided in Nevada. Bonde received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno, his M.S. in Earth Sciences from Montana State University-Bozeman, and his Ph.D. From the University of Nevada, Reno. He is an advocate for science education across the State of Nevada and is currently the Director at the Nevada State Museum.

The Birth of Icky IPA

Tom Young, Founder and Brewmaster, recounts the origin story of the Icky IPA, its iconic logo and the history of the Great Basin Brewing Company.

Triassic Vertebrate Tracks: A Record of the Oldest Mesozoic Tracks from Nevada

Join local Paleontologist Rebecca Hall as she explores Triassic trace fossils in Nevada.

Triassic trace fossils are well documented and researched from the Moenkopi Formation/Group, 240Ma, spanning across the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico. These fossils, however, have never been formally documented or researched in Nevada until vertebrate trackways (footprints) from several different species were recently discovered. These specimens show exceptional preservation, including the presence of skin impressions. The discovery of tracks was first noted by Chester Longwell in 1928 when they were reported in a geological survey, but the tracks were never fully documented. After the discovery of vertebrate trace fossils in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area by Becky Hall, a proper scientific study is currently being conducted to contribute a better understanding of Triassic trace fossils in relation to regional and local reconstruction of paleoenvironments. These tracks represent the oldest Mesozoic vertebrate traces from Nevada, and some of the western-most terrestrial Triassic traces in North America expanding the record of Moenkopi ecosystems further afield.

Garrett Barmore: Nevada Way Back When

Join Garrett Barmore for a trip through time exploring Nevada’s geologic history as it relates to ichthyosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Learn about the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum, its collections and its history.

Garrett Barmore is the Curator at the W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Barmore is an alumnus of UNR and received his Master’s in Museology from the University of Washington. Garrett has worked as the curator of the Keck Museum for over 10 years and has given hundreds of presentations and tours about Nevada’s ancient past. The Museum’s paleontology collection represents millions of years of life in Nevada.