The mesquite trees in our Desert Garden are beginning to bloom, welcoming busy, happy pollinators!

Our condor is moving to its new home in our Hall of Biodiversity. Condors in the wild are finding new homes, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amx-D0BIL8s&utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=a9a999ffb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47588b5758-a9a999ffb8-302452294

This week, Summer Explorers Camp is all about Ice Age fossils. Here, Curator of Earth Science Ian Gilbert shows campers how paleontologists uncover a saber-tooth cat fossil. Next week: forensics, museum-style! Call our welcome desk at 909-798-8608 to see if there's still space for your 7- to 12-year-old.

The scientists at NASA must be really excited -- so are we! Juno is zooming by Jupiter's Great Red Spot! https://www.facebook.com/NASAJuno/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

Our bunny pretty much defines "laid back." You can give Hunumun a tickle and meet other live animals in the Exploration Station Tuesdays through Fridays from 9:30 to 12:30 and weekends from 1 to 4.

We hope the Museum makes a lasting impression after your visit. Dinosaurs made lasting impressions, too -- the only dinosaur tracks known in southern California are found in our county in the eastern Mojave Desert! Craig Putnam and Ian Gilbert moved a slab of their tracks yesterday to their new resting place in preparation for a new exhibit area in our courtyard.

Our Mojave Desert is home to many sites mostly forgotten by history (but not by Joe Blackstock, a great writer and researcher as well as a valued volunteer in the Museum's history division). http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20170703/the-untold-story-african-american-homesteaders-once-farmed-the-mojave-desert

Every Wednesday at the Museum from 1 to 4 p.m. you can find members of the Crosstwisters demonstrating the art of bobbin lace. And not just demonstrating -- you can learn this traditional skill yourself! Stop by for some hands-on lessons!

Take a stroll down our Remember Ramps and just imagine how thrilling it must have been to hear John Philip Sousa conduct "Stars and Stripes Forever" in your own parlor! (But tomorrow you'll want to hear it at your local 4th of July parade, because the Museum will be closed on Independence Day).

We've joined the @Associationofchildrensmuseums and Institute of Museum and Library Services signature national program #MuseumsforAll - please share our videos in Spanish and English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCM1dfl2Ods&t=4s - generously sponsored with private funds from U.S. Bank and the San Bernardino County Museum Association #WELCOME

Happy Fossil Friday! Meet Allosaurus fragilis, and last night’s Dome Talks presenter, Dr. Aaron Parness. One is a carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the late Jurassic Period (155-150 million-years-ago), and the other is a mechanical engineer from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Parness specializes in robotics, including anchoring systems for Near Earth Objects, climbing robots, and robotic grippers. Imagine what the tiny-armed Allosaurus could have accomplished with a pair of robotic gripper arms! Alas, Dr. Parness arrived about 150 million years too late… Thank you for your presentation @NASAgecko ! @NASAgecko #fossilfriday #naturalhistory #fossil #fossilwatch #sanbernardino #redlands #paleontology #NASA #JPL #robot #robotics #fossils #dometalks #allosaurus

Some surprising animals are related to horses! You can see fossils of some of them in our Hall of Earth Sciences. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/29/this-bizarre-ancient-creature-mystified-darwin-now-we-finally-know-what-it-was/?utm_term=.adf8c9fc29ad