Community Outreach - Event Booth Presentations

Meet our animals up close at an event, reception, or festival. Hands-on exploration of artifacts is interspersed with live animal interpretations. (Depends on suitability of environment for live animals.)

In an event booth demonstration, Desert Museum staff will stand in one area with the animals, and your participants can come up for a closer look and to ask questions or share conversation.

Possible animals are:

We cannot guarantee particular species, but we will bring a variety of animals, and do our best to honor any special requests. Please put these in the notes field on the reservation form.

Requirements:

Please provide a 6 foot table for each animal handler to stand behind.

Fees:

$550One educator with three animals to be shown in sequence
for up to two hours

Additional after hours and weekend fee:

$150 After 4 p.m. Mon-Fri and any time Sat-Sun

Travel Fees for roundtrip distances 50 miles and over:

50-100 miles $260
100-150 miles $360

Outreach Programming is limited to Pima, Santa Cruz, Pinal, Cochise and Graham Counties. Overnight accommodation charges may be required, depending on travel time and the duration of programming.

Reservations require a 30-day minimum advance notice. Availability hours are 9:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.

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