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February Vacation Week at NMLC
This February Vacation week at the National Marine Life Center, there is something for everyone!
Weekdays at 11 am, we offer an update about our patients and the opportunity to visit our headstarting diamondback terrapin hatchlings and red bellied cooter hatchlings. Free, suitable for all ages.
Weekdays at 2 pm, we offer “Fins and Flippers” club where [...]
For the love of turtles (and seals and dolphins and…)
JOIN US on Saturday, February 13, 10 am – 2 pm, for our Open House celebrating turtles and other marine life!
Explore the Marine Animal Discovery Center, make a marine animal valentine, enjoy arts and crafts and games and refreshments, tour our new marine animal hospital. Visit Patty the Diamondback Terrapin and meet the eight red-bellied [...]
Join us for Harvest Splash
Join us this Thanksgiving Weekend for Harvest Splash! Tour our Marine
Animal Discovery Center for exhibits and information about marine wildlife, strandings, and rehabilitation. Peek into our Clinic for a glimpse at Patty, our recovering Diamondback Terrapin. Learn the latest about our new marine animal hospital. Take your photo as a whale, seal, or sea turtle. [...]
Happy 40th Anniversary to the Scallop Fest!
The Scallop Fest is this weekend in Bourne! This year, the festival celebrates it’s 40th anniversary with an event that is bigger and better than ever! Enjoy a delicious scallop or herb-roasted chicken meal while listening to fabulous live entertainment. Browse the handicrafts at the Arts and Crafts fair. Enjoy the rides and games at [...]
Kids Who Care
Today National Marine Life Center was blessed when a group of children brought in a wonderful gift. Aaron, Natalie, Gabe, and Emily had visited NMLC’s Marine Animal Discovery Center throughout the summer with their nanny, Mary Lou. They enjoyed the crafts that they made at “Fins and Flippers” and decided they wanted to do something [...]
Story Time and Paper Bag Whales @ NMLC
Okay. It’s summer vacation and it’s raining outside. Did I say, “Raining?” It’s pouring. The kids are nursing yesterday’s sunburn from 12 hours on the beach. And you can’t stand one more rerun of SpongeBob SquarePants. What is a formerly sane parent going to do? Who you gonna call?
The smart answer is “the National Marine Life [...]
Fins and Flippers at NMLC
Summer education programs have begun at the National Marine Life Center at 120 Main Street in Buzzards Bay. “Fins and Flippers” kicked off this morning in the Discovery Center with kids and parents having a great time assembling sea turtles from recycled CDs. A donation of $3 for non-members and $1 for members is suggested [...]
NMLC Critter Tank
Can there be anything more exciting to children than a Critter Tank? I think not. Snails and shrimp and crabs, oh my! Children become entranced watching lady (calico) crabs dancing around the tank. Then there are the too proud hermit crabs parading over the rock floor to show off their latest homes, yet coveting everyone else’s shell at [...]
Discovery Center Opens This Weekend
The words out and everyone … even the turtles … are making tracks for Main Street, Buzzards Bay. The NMLC Discovery Center opens this holiday weekend for the entire summer season. Ten to five daily, the Discovery Center will educate and entertain kids of all ages from four to one hundred four.
Learn about marine animals, find out [...]
