Regional News

At Blue Hills Nature Day Camp in Milton, our unique location atop scenic Chickatawbut Hill invites campers ages 5-13 to discover nature through hands-on exploration, creative play, and active learning. Registration is open!

Blue Hills Trailside Museum welcomes visitors to explore our OUTDOOR areas on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 am-2:00 pm. Visitors must reserve an entry ticket for a specific arrival time.

Originally constructed in 1960 as one of Trailside's very first exhibits, it's time to improve the otter pool to meet modern standards while enhancing the educational experience.

Weekly sessions at Moose Hill Nature Camp in Sharon have campers discovering the sanctuary, getting dirty in farm fields, experimenting with science, dabbling in art, and venturing to new places. Registration is now open!

At Stony Brook Day Camp in Norfolk, campers ages 5–10 discover our wildlife sanctuary's forest, fields, and wetlands during weekly sessions. Registration is now open!

Recently, a casual tally along the shore of Stony Brook Pond found more than 90 trees and shrubs bearing dramatic evidence of beaver activity within the last several months. Of course, it helps to know why the beavers are wreaking all this havoc in the first place.

Congratulations to the James family, whose rubber "Wood Duck" was the first to cross the finish line at the 6th Annual Wood Duck Derby on October 5!

Thanks to the generosity and vision of a longtime local family, MABA has grown by nearly three acres! The new addition features a lovely series of rapids on Pequit Brook, which parallels the sanctuary's Main Loop Trail.

This innovative, grant-funded project will enable MABA to engage young learners in a multisensory, hands-on, art and design project. The Nest will be a welcoming community space where students and other visitors can create and discuss collaboration with a focus on science, the environment, and art. 

The lack of representation when it comes to racial diversity in the outdoors, in social media depictions of nature, in our workplaces and beyond leads to a lack of understanding and empathy for people from all walks of life. 

We're excited to introduce MABA's newest intern to the team—Lauren Anfenson! A senior Electrical & Computer Engineering major at Olin College, we asked Lauren to share some insight about the work she's been doing at the museum since June.