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Welcome to the Growing & Forming: Art Workshop for Adults at Pacific Museum of Earth!

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Before the end of January, let’s celebrate garnet, the birthstone of the month! ♥️

The name "garnet" is derived from the Latin word "granatus," which means "grain" or "seed," possibly due to the resemblance of some garnet crystals to pomegranate seeds.

I've heard mixed opinions...

Some say this agate looks like a papaya? I've heard kiwi? Peach? 🥝🍑🤷‍♀️

This is the #LyttonJellyRoll — the largest turbidite in the world, formed by an underwater avalanche 12,000 years ago... and sitting right in the middle of our Main Gallery! 🌍

Day 7 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

7 obsidian specimens 🖤

Day 6 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

6 amber specimens 🦟

Day 5 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

5 ocean jaspers 🌊

Day 4 of 2026, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

4 echinoids (sea urchin fossils) 🌊

Day 3 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

3 chalcedony roses 🌹

Day 2 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

2 megalodon teeth 🦈

Day 1 of 2026 highlight, #PacificMuseumofEarth collection:

1 snowflake obsidian ❄️

And it's (almost) a wrap on 2025! 🦕🌍💎🎊

Some of our favourite PME Tree decorations so far! 🎄🎁

Join PhD Candidate in Oceanography Becca Beutel @bbeutel.bsky.social for her first research cruise on the La Perouse biochemical survey!

Spotting whales, dolphins, squid, pteropods... sounds like a pretty great first research cruise experience, even if we agree the night shift sounds a bit scary!

George the Lambeosaurus is passing through your feed to wish you a roar-some holiday season! 🦕🎅🎁🎄

Uruguay Achieves 99% Green Energy After Seeking the Lowest Price for Consumers The contracts were not awarded according to emissions-cutting promises, but how low the cost for installation and provision would be. 

GOOD NEWS!

Find out how the country of 3.5 million people with an impressive GDP of $80 billion managed to achieve 99% green energy! 💨

What went right this week: kicking the plastic habit, plus more A roadmap for ending plastic pollution, Antarctic’s shrinking ozone hole, and London’s falling crime rate, plus more good news

Plastic pollution is set to double by 2040 — but it doesn’t have to.

A new roadmap study shows existing solutions could cut plastic pollution by 83%, reduce health harms by over half, and support 8.6 million jobs 🌍

Who doesn't like to pretend they are the weather person on the news? 🤷‍♀️ So silly, and yet, one of our most popular exhibits! 😜

Before vs After

Do you think we'll see the globes again? 👀

We are so lucky to store our collection and showcase our exhibits in these GORGEOUS buildings! Wow.

Our Dorothy the elasmosaurus was named after Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz... cause they both came from Kansas!

Our OmniGlobe is the best way to view Earth, the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, or even the Sun without ever leaving campus. 

You can choose from a selection of over 300 projections 🤯

Visit it for free at the Gem Gallery inside our Main Gallery! 🌍💎

We have a new exhibit in the making! What could it beeeee 👀🌍

Dorothy the Elasmosaurus breathes air, lives in water, and has 72 neck bones. Well, had. 

Now, she rocks 😉

Every rock in our museum has a wild backstory.

Some were born in volcanoes. Some were buried for billions of years.

Some… were decorative paperweights.

Our fossilized femur? You can touch it, just don’t try to take it home.

It’s 73 million years old, and we’re very attached.

Some fossils are casts, some are molds, some are poop.

Yes, there’s a scientific word for fossilized poop. It’s coprolite.

(We know. We giggle too.)

Our oceanography exhibit explains anglerfish romance: the male literally fuses into the female’s body.

It’s… commitment.