The Midwest Museum of Natural History offers non-profits and businesses the opportunity to decorate Christmas trees as part of a competition known as the Festival of Trees.The Festival of Trees is in its third year and has sold out of trees with a record...

The Midwest Museum of Natural History [MMNH] will hold an informational meeting about Monarch butterflies Saturday. The event is from 10:30 a.m. to noon, said Heather Williams, education specialist for MMNH. Monarchs! will feature a presentation about...

Students can expect many opportunities at the Volunteer Fair hosted by Student Involvement and Leadership Development (SILD) at 3 p.m. today in the Stevenson Towers Food Court. The fair is an annual event organized by Becky Harlow, assistant director...

Bring your friends, your family and your camera; just don't bring any Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Those are already provided for you.The Midwest Museum of Natural History (MMNH), 425 W. State St. in Sycamore, will host its first "Rockin' for the Reptiles"...

Sycamore | The Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St. in Sycamore, boasts the display of over a hundred mounted animals, live animals and one of the largest stuffed elephants in the country. Molly Holman gets to be the executive director...

DeKalb | Three local museums are looking for volunteers as their busy season quickly approaches. Anyone interested in local history, museum curation or volunteering over the summer may find an opportunity at a local museum. One of the locations that offers...

Think the winters in DeKalb get cold? Imagine walking 500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean towards the North Pole in temperatures that reach 60 degrees below zero. That is exactly what Northwestern graduate John Huston and his partner Tyler Fish set out...

Dinosaurs, sports tickets and steel drums came together Saturday night at the Midwest Museum of Natural History. The MMNH, 425 W. State St. in Sycamore, hosted its third annual Groundhog Gala on saturday. "It was a very successful evening, and we would...