Visit the University of Waterloo Earth Sciences Museum for our annual Gem and Mineral Show and Science Open House!
This year, the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club’s 13th Annual Hike Festival will feature hikes around the Bruce Trial in Tobermory and a variety of seminars, including a talk by Peter Russell. The Earth Sciences Museum is showing two displays at this event; vibrantly coloured mineral samples, and Burgess Shale fossils.
Peter Russell's talk Hiking the Red Rocks of Arizona will be at 7pm on September 30th, and our mineral displays will be available to view Friday though Saturday at the National Parks Visitors Centre in Tobermory.
The Earth Sciences Museum hosted interactive educational activities at the Waterloo Wellington Children's Groundwater Festival this summer. Approximately 5000 students participated in the five day festival that held a variety of activities to education children about the importance of water conservation, protection, technology, and ecology.
The Earth Sciences Museum thanks all the volunteers from the University of Waterloo who helped run the Museum's activities. Collectively, they contributed approximately 300 volunteer hours.
Discovery Square is a series of weekly free events that host children's activities about science, engineering, technology, math, and the arts. The Earth Sciences Museum ran 3 activities: Minerals + Materials, Fossil Fish Dig, and Gold Panning. Other participants at Discovery Square were SheepDog Animation School, TheMUSEUM, Waterloo FIRST Robotics, ORD Solutions inc., Art Shine, Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, and the University of Waterloo's Science Outreach team. We are proud to have participated in such a fun and educational community event!
Over the summer the Earth Sciences Museum hosted earth science programs for the Engineering and Science Quest camp participants. We ran presentations and hand-on activities to educate campers about rocks, minerals, and fossils. Overall, we were visited by 400 campers!
This summer the Earth Sciences Museum participated in the 34th Annual Sudbury Gem and Mineral Show on July 15th-17th. We hosted hands-on educational activities for children. The Earth Sciences Museum is proud to continually be involved with Northern Ontario's largest gem, mineral, bead, rock craft, and jewellery show.
The London Gem & Mineral Show will have vendors selling minerals, fossils, and jewellery. In addition, the event will host seminars and workshops about earth science and jewellery making.
The Earth Sciences Museum will be providing hands-on educational activities for kids at this event on Saturday November 19th and Sunday November 20th.
The Earth Sciences Museum will be hosting activities at the Ancaster Gem, Mineral, Bead & Jewellery Show.
The show is running from Friday September 30th to October 2nd at the Ancaster Fairgrounds.
Join Peter Russell, former curator of the Earth Sciences Museum, for our Jane's Walk, “Rock Around Kitchener” and explore Kitchener’s geological history as displayed in its buildings and other stonework.
Since 2007, the Faculty of Science has cherished the tradition of honouring alumni who have distinguished themselves as outstanding professional and personal achievers in their chosen fields and who have loyally dedicated their time and service to their alma mater.