At the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Feb. 10, 2024, youngsters delighted in using microscopes. Here is Margo Rubin, 5, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day is set for Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. announced coordinator and co-founder Tabatha Yang, the public education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Biodiversity Museum Day. billed as a "Super Science Day," is an opportunity to see displays, engage in activities, and talk to the scientists. Visitors see everything from red-tailed hawks at the California Raptor Center, dog heartworm specimens at the nematology display, butterfly specimens and a live petting zoo at the Bohart Museum, and plants galore at the Arboretum and Public Garden, the Botanical Conservatory, and the Center for Plant Diversity.  And much more.

And it's free and family friendly. 

Details are progressing, but nine museums or collections--and maybe more--are expected to participate:

• Arboretum and Public Garden, Habitat Gardens in the Environmental GATEway, adjacent to the Arboretum Teaching Nursery on Garrod Drive
• Bohart Museum of Entomology, Room 1124 and main hall of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane
• Botanical Conservatory, the greenhouses along Kleiber Hall Drive
• California Raptor Center, 1340 Equine Lane, off Old Davis Road (Located three miles south of the central campus.)
• Center for Plant Diversity, Katherine Esau Science Hall off Kleiber Hall Drive
• Nematode Collection (part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology), Katherine Esau Science Hall, off Kleiber Hall Drive
• Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, Room 1394, Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane
• Paleontology Collection, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1309 Earth and Physical Sciences Building, 434 LaRue Road
• Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Robert Mondavi Institute Brewery and Food Processing facility, Old Davis Road

Anthropology will not be able to participate due to departmental renovations and some key retirements.

Stay tuned for more information. The 2025 event will take place the day before Super Bowl, so it's Super Science Day on Feb. 8, and Super Bowl on Feb. 9.