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Next Friends Annual Meeting and a Brief History

The next annual meeting of the Friends will be at Sandy Creek Nature Center on Saturday, August 29, 2026. The meeting will be held in the Walker Hall Complex from 2 to 4PM.

Cecil Smith, Associate Curator and Collections Manager for the UGCA, sitting in the Arthropods collection room in 2009.

In Memory of Cecil Smith, Associate Curator and Collections Manager of the Collection of Arthropods

When shrieks of surprise, delight, and (a little) fear resounded through the Natural History Building, we knew that Cecil Smith’s tour had ended with an attack of the giant spider.

The museum in the Library Building, 1875. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library / University of Georgia Libraries.

Chruszcz and Birch shed light on history of the Georgia Museum of Natural History

by Christa May

Cameron (right) and the "Zoo Crew" zoology collections staff at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Museum Supporter Spotlight: How the GMNH Internship Impacted Cameron Pittman

Cameron Pittman completed the Georgia Museum of Natural History internship in Vertebrate Zoology in the Fall of 2019.

Museum collections reveal worldwide spread of butterfly disease

by Sydney Barrilleaux