Earth Day Celebration at NJ State Museum

Join us on April 26 to celebrate Earth Day and the new exhibition “Ecosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in New Jersey.”

Enjoy free hands-on activities, talks, urban birdwatching (weather permitting), and more with Museum curators and guests from the Tulpehaking Nature Center, New Jersey Audubon, Mercer County Master Gardeners, and New Jersey DEP Watershed Ambassador.

Visitors can also pick up coupon valid for $2 off the 1:00 pm Planetarium show “We are Guardians,” while supplies last.

Schedule:

• 10:30 am – Urban birdwatching; meet in front of Museum
• 11:30 am – Water health talk & I.D. activity; Riverview Court
• 1:00 pm – Planetarium show “We are Guardians”
• 2:00 pm – Tidal marshland talk; Riverview Court

Ongoing activities – sun printing, sun spotting/sun telescope (weather permitting); interactive sandbox; bird activity station, gardening station, EnviroScape and pollinator activities.