Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Free fishing classes
When: July 22, 29, August 5, 12, 19, 2021 11:00AM-1:00PM This program is weather permitting.
Where: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 North Cannon Drive, 773-755-5191. North Pond Casting Pier. The pier is located directly behind the museum on the south end of North Pond.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum skilled and friendly volunteers will be outside on the North Pond Casting Pier to teach both spin and fly casting to participants of all ages. Participation is on a first come, first serve basis and volunteers always do their best to accommodate everyone depending on demand. In keeping with current Nature Museum policies, masks are required to participate in this program. Sanitizer will also be available for participants.
This is not a drop off program all children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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About the Peggy Notebaert Museum
- The Judy Istock Butterfly Haven is the museum’s internationally renowned signature 2,700 square foot greenhouse. Home to more than 1,000 butterflies (75 species), the Haven is the perfect tropical retreat.
- Broken Journey: Photography by Art Fox celebrates the beauty and mysteries hidden within nature. By documenting migratory birds whose journeys have been cut short, his work provokes the viewer to be drawn in through beauty and be led toward deeper meanings.
- Beecher Collections Laboratory see scientists engaged in real taxidermy of bison, skunks, coyotes and more.
- Hands-on Habitat: Knee-high naturalists can explore the secret world of animal homes. Adventures include exploring an underground cave, a giant roped spider web and a busy beaver lodge.
- Istock Family Look-in Lab: Watch as Museum scientists and volunteers care for and study the animals that comprise the Museum’s Living Collection.
- RiverWorks: Splash your way through this exhibit as you discover that only real lazy rivers are the ones you find at water parks. Rivers are nature’s own flood controls and are filled with species of fish, herons, beavers and painted turtles. Interact with RiverWorks by reversing the flow of the river, turn the river into a lake, build your own dam and even control a water turbine.
- Wilderness Walk: So many different environments are found in Chicago. Walk through a recreation of a prairie, savanna and dune, complete with authentic sounds and preserved animals.
- Birds of Chicago: Get up close to the birds you see in your backyard and discover how to identify them by their sounds. More than 115 specimens, including the Midwest turkey, cardinal and endangered Prairie chicken are on display from the Chicago Academy of Sciences Collections. Choose which ones you want to hear by touching the screen on the interactive kiosk.
Building details:
- Cost $33m. $10M Funded by the Chicago Park District; $20m from fundraising
- The building was designed by Ralph Johnson who designed the International Terminal at O’hare and the Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium.
- The only museum specializing in the natural history and ecology of the Midwest.
- 4,300 square foot Judy Istock Butterfly Haven named after designed by Lee H. Skolnik Architecture & Design Partnership. 30-foot-high, 40-by-70-foot
- 6.35-acre site provided by the Chicago Park District
- Five areas of outdoors a pond and woodland edge, a prairie, a deep-shaded woods and a ravine community with limestone outcroppings.
