Boonshoft Museum of Discovery

Boonshoft Museum of Discovery The Boonshoft Museum is the premier destination for family learning in the Miami Valley.
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The live animal department is now accepting applications for winter of 2026!❄️ We are seeking applicants for the followi...
09/24/2025

The live animal department is now accepting applications for winter of 2026!❄️ We are seeking applicants for the following internships:
· Animal care 🦇
· Animal behavior 🎯
· Animal interpretive 👩‍🏫

Work side by side with our team of zookeepers to learn about animal husbandry, training, behavior and public programming! Applicants are asked to apply no later than October 15th! 🍂

Qualifications:
· Must be 18 year or older
· Currently enrolled in a college degree program or have completed a degree within the past two years
· Basic animal taxa knowledge
· Basic public speaking skills
· Good communication skills
· Ability to work independently and as a team member
· Ability to lift 50lbs***
· Able to spend 2/3 of the day on their feet including frequent bending, squatting and sweeping***
· Basic cleaning skills such as sweeping, mopping, laundry and dishes***
· Tolerate the presence of various chemicals such as bleach***
· Tolerate the presence of different substrates, animal fur and feathers
(***Animal care only)

Please email your resume, cover letter and questions to:
Associate Curator, Liz [email protected]
Animal Keeper, Sophia [email protected]

Check out this awesome picture showing dinner on the International Space Station. The trays feature shrimp cocktail on c...
09/24/2025

Check out this awesome picture showing dinner on the International Space Station. The trays feature shrimp cocktail on crackers, and sushi with spam, tuna and rice.

Have you ever wanted to try what they eat up in space? We have astronaut ice cream available right here in our gift shop! Stop in and have a taste of what it's like to eat what an astronaut does.

📸First photo credit to NASA's website, Image of the Day

🚨Your weekly reminder!Anyone who adopts Lucy during the month of September will automatically be entered to win a Conser...
09/24/2025

🚨Your weekly reminder!

Anyone who adopts Lucy during the month of September will automatically be entered to win a Conservation Conversation with Lucy herself. Check out our website using the link below to learn more about how you can adopt Lucy and others!

https://boonshoft.org/support/adopt-an-animal/

🎉🐰It's almost International Rabbit Day and we're celebrating our fuzzy friends, Esther and Siegfried, here at the Boonsh...
09/23/2025

🎉🐰It's almost International Rabbit Day and we're celebrating our fuzzy friends, Esther and Siegfried, here at the Boonshoft Museum. Join us on THIS SATURDAY, September 27th, for all day bunny fun!🐰🎉

🖍 9-3 - Bunny themed activities and coloring in the Discovery Zoo
🥕 11:15 - Rabbit Exercise Session: Come check out one of our rabbits roam around the Vet Hospital Table where you can ask questions, and maybe see some training
🐇 2:30 - Rabbit Keeper Talk: learn all about rabbits with our very own animal experts

Join us in celebrating International Rabbit Day, where every second is filled with excitement and love for these charming little beings! 🤝🐰💖

🍂Let's "fall" into science!🍂Why do leaves change color during autumn? 🍃➡🍂Leaves get their green color from chlorophyll a...
09/23/2025

🍂Let's "fall" into science!🍂
Why do leaves change color during autumn? 🍃➡🍂

Leaves get their green color from chlorophyll and they absorb energy from the sun during photosynthesis. As the season start to change and there's less sunlight and lower temperatures, the chlorophyll starts to break down. Due to the lack of chlorophyll to give the leaf it's green color, the leaf starts to reveal the yellow and orange pigments that are normally masked during warmer months.

Once the tree has taken the nutrients from the leaves that it needs for winter, the leaves will separate and fall to the ground.

Joe Burrow is feeling that Monday mood... Happy Monday!📸: Adrian Carlisle, Facilities
09/22/2025

Joe Burrow is feeling that Monday mood...

Happy Monday!

📸: Adrian Carlisle, Facilities

🔎Can you spot Sheldon the armadillo? Comment"👀" when you find him!*Hint* Armadillos have long claws for digging.
09/22/2025


🔎Can you spot Sheldon the armadillo? Comment"👀" when you find him!

*Hint* Armadillos have long claws for digging.

☀🌎Today is the Autumn Equinox - it's the first day of fall!🍂The equinox marks the exact moment when the center of the Su...
09/22/2025

☀🌎Today is the Autumn Equinox - it's the first day of fall!🍂

The equinox marks the exact moment when the center of the Sun crosses the plane of our planet’s equator. At the September equinox, the sun is moving from north to south as it crosses above the equator. It’s bringing summer to the Southern Hemisphere and winter to the Northern Hemisphere. Earth’s two hemispheres receive the sun’s rays about equally around equinox time. But Earth never stops moving in orbit around the sun. And these days of approximately equal daylight and night will change quickly as we move toward the December solstice.

🌌Out of this world news!🌌At a press conference last week, NASA scientists gathered to discuss something we've been waiti...
09/21/2025

🌌Out of this world news!🌌

At a press conference last week, NASA scientists gathered to discuss something we've been waiting a long time for... LIFE ON MARS! The Perseverance rover drilled into a rock they called "Sapphire Canyon" that they took as a sample from a place they thought to be an ancient river delta. The rock has black spots and lighter spots that the scientists called poppy seeds and leopard spots.

The scientists discussed how these spots would have formed and they have "no other good explanation" other than these being signs of previous life on Mars from biological processes.🌿

🔎If you want to read more information on this topic, check out NASA's website here!
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/

📸Photo info: Via NASA "The Perseverance rover captured this view of leopard spots and poppy seeds on a Martian rock. Continued analysis of the rover data supports the possibility that the formations involved living microorganisms. It’s a compelling – though still inconclusive – case for ancient life on Mars."

💤Kevin taking a little Sunday snooze!💤 There's always time for a cat nap.📸:Rick Wilson, IT Manager
09/21/2025

💤Kevin taking a little Sunday snooze!💤
There's always time for a cat nap.

📸:Rick Wilson, IT Manager

🎉🐰International Rabbit Day is right around the corner and we're celebrating our fuzzy friends, Esther and Siegfried, her...
09/20/2025

🎉🐰International Rabbit Day is right around the corner and we're celebrating our fuzzy friends, Esther and Siegfried, here at the Boonshoft Museum. Join us on NEXT SATURDAY, September 27th, for all day bunny fun!🐰🎉

🖍 9-3 - Bunny themed activities and coloring in the Discovery Zoo
🥕 11:15 - Rabbit Exercise Session: Come check out one of our rabbits roam around the Vet Hospital Table where you can ask questions, and maybe see some training
🐇 2:30 - Rabbit Keeper Talk: learn all about rabbits with our very own animal experts

Join us in celebrating International Rabbit Day, where every second is filled with excitement and love for these charming little beings! 🤝🐰💖

✨🪐Get ready for an astronomical spectacle on September 21 as we witness Saturn in opposition! 🪐✨Saturn will align with t...
09/20/2025

✨🪐Get ready for an astronomical spectacle on September 21 as we witness Saturn in opposition! 🪐✨

Saturn will align with the Earth and Sun making it the closest and brightest of the year. Look to the eastern sky around sunset as it rises, and then the south-eastern sky after midnight as it moves to its highest point. You will be able to see Saturn with just the naked eye, but if you have a telescope you just may be able to see Saturn's infamous rings!👀🔭🌌

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The Boonshoft Museum is the Dayton region’s science center, children’s museum, natural history museum, planetarium, observatory and zoo! It provides critical STEM learning opportunities for nearly 200,000 visitors of all ages each year through permanent and traveling exhibitions, educational programs, special events, day camps, and more.