Category: Event News
For the Love of Turtles Open House
Join us for our February Open House and share your love of turtles! Explore the Discovery Center, write a marine animal valentine, make a marine animal craft, and enjoy games and refreshments. Tour our marine animal hospital and meet our 39 turtle patients. Education programs during the Open House are included with admission. DETAILS: When: […]
“Help Care for Turtles” Open House
Help Care for Turtles by visiting the National Marine Life Center’s Discovery Center and Gift Shop this holiday weekend! We’re open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 28-30 from 10 am to 5 pm. Featuring: HOSPITAL TOURS at 11 am and 3 pm daily. See the 30 sea turtles, 2 seals, and 10 native turtles in […]
Alternative Gift Market – making a difference!
This holiday season, show your goodwill with gifts from the Unitarian Church of Barnstable’s 2014 ALTERNATIVE GIFT MARKET. The Alternative Gift Market is a unique two-day shopping experience where you can get acquainted with a variety of local charities and make donations in the name of someone else as a gift. These organizations provide a […]
“Joy to the Whales” – Joy to Winning for the Holidays!
The holidays are fast approaching and the National Marine Life Center will be participating in the Spectacle of Trees again this year! That means you have the chance to win over $9,000 in prizes just in time for the holidays!!! Please join the National Marine Life Center and many other nonprofit organizations at the JFK […]
NMLC 2nd Annual Holiday Breakfast w/ Santa
The National Marine Life Center is excited to host the 2nd annual family fun Holiday Breakfast with Santa to benefit marine animal rehabilitation and conservation! The event will be held on Saturday December 6th, 2014 from 9am-12pm at the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School at 220 Sandwich Road, Bourne, Massachusetts, 02532. Click here […]
Spooky Splash Halloween Event!
Come join us this Saturday, at the NMLC for our Spooky Splash event! Costumes are welcome and prizes will be given out to some lucky ghouls and goblins. We have a big day planned with: arts and crafts, refreshments, a scavenger hunt, and some other fun activities! Some of these activities include: Pumpkin decorating! A […]
3 Seals are Heading Back to the Wild!
It’s time to celebrate! The National Marine Life Center is releasing three rehabilitated seals tomorrow morning, Friday, September 12, at 10:00 am at Scusset Beach, and the public is invited to observe the release. “Barclay” is a male harbor seal pup that stranded in Maine on May 18, 2014. He was rescued by Marine Mammals […]
Celebrate Wildlife!
Join the National Marine Life Center and the Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative and celebrate wildlife! The 5th annual Cape Cod Wildlife Festival showcases local environmental groups – both on land and in the water. It’s FREE, and fun for the whole family! Details: Date: Saturday, September 13, 2014 Time: 10 am – 3 pm Place: Mass Audubon […]
Celebrate Marine Animals & the Cape Cod Canal!
It’s the 100th year anniversary of the Cape Cod Canal! For the past century, the Canal has not only been important to human commerce and transportation, it has also been utilized by a variety of marine animal species. Visit us next week, July 28 – August 2, to learn about the whales, dolphins, seals, turtles, […]
Diamondback Terrapin Release!
This past Wednesday, National Marine Life Center staff and volunteers took a little road trip down to Lieutenant Island, Mass Audubon Welfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary to release three of our Diamondback Terrapins – Penny, Schofield, and Bubbles. The three terrapins had all been victims of cold stunning, meaning that their internal body temperatures had dropped dangerously […]