In addition, Corporate Partners receive many special benefits including:

• Complimentary Museum admission for employees and friends
• Invitations to exhibit openings and members only events
• Opportunity to host employee/corporate day at the Museum
• Complimentary tickets to Museum exhibitions
• VIP passes for clients, business associates, and friends
• Opportunity to hold a special event at the Museum
• Recognition on our Donor Wall and in member publications
• Special benefits to employees, such as discounts on membership, parking, Museum shop and café, tours, lectures, family events, classes, camps, and educational offerings
• Behind-the-scenes tours with Museum curators

Download the Corporate Parters Program info packet - PDF

For additional information about the Corporate Partners Program, contact Brian Bentley, Manager of Corporate Relations, at (213) 763-3224 or e-mail him at bbentley@nhm.org.

Automobile Club of Southern California
AEGON Transamerica
Anonymous
Arrow Electronics
The Boeing Company
Campbell-Ewald
Capital Group
Chevron
City National Bank
Co-Architects
Cogent Systems, Inc.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Farmers Insurance Group
Good Magazine LLC
Grace Culture Marketing
Hitachi
International Lease Finance
Korn Ferry
Liberty Vegetable Oil
Majestic Realty

Matt Construction
Morgan Stanley

Natural History Magazine
Nike
Northrop Grumman
Park La Brea
Payden and Rygel
RCG Holding
ScholarShare
UBS Financial
United Parcel Service
Watson Land Co.
Western Exterminator
Whole Foods Market
XL Capital Assurance, Inc.

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For more information about the Corporate Partners Program, please consult the Corporate Partners info packet or contact Brian Bentley at (213)763-3224 or bbentley@nhm.org.

Free First Tuesdays

Free admission to all visitors is offered the first Tuesday of each month throughout the year. This program provides access to the museum for people who might not ordinarily be able to afford the regular price of admission. Through this free program, visitors of all ages are given the opportunity to explore all the Museum has to offer. These are some of the busiest days at NHM, with nearly 22,000 guests taking advantage of the important opportunity last year.

$10,000 - $75,000 (title sponsorship)

First Fridays

After hours activities at the Museum the first Friday of every month give visitors the opportunity to mix, mingle and enjoy the Museum’s vast collections and exhibitions.  Walk-throughs of galleries with Museum curators prior to the discussion and live performances kick off the evening.  The discussion series features scientists convened and moderated by celebrated writer and recipient of the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ print media award in 2006, Margaret Wertheim.  Event-specific films are premiered in the Museum’s In/ter/act gallery as part of the night's Q & A.  Each evening concludes with live performances by acclaimed musicians, dancers and DJs.  These evenings draw upwards of 1300 guests, including a spirited new Museum audience consisting of professionals ranging in age from mid 20s to late 30s.

 

$15,000 - $65,000 (title sponsorship)

Pavilion of Wings

Back for its ninth summer, the Pavilion of Wings opened on Sunday, April 15 and will run through Labor Day, Monday, September 3, 2007. Visitors of all ages love to enjoy this world of free flying butterflies and to take a stroll through the beautifully landscaped temporary exhibit housed at the Museum's South Lawn. Guests flock to see the wide array of butterfly species, such as the giant swallowtail, monarch, American painted Lady and even the California Dogface, California's state butterfly. Over the summer, thirty different butterfly and moth species call the Pavilion home. Last year more than 60,000 visitors discovered how butterflies interact with the plants and gain a new understanding of various environmental issues.

$10,000 - $100,000 (title sponsorship)

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The Haunted Museum

The Haunted Museum is a Halloween family event for top Museum members and their families.  The fun-filled event takes place at the end of October from 5:30 until 8:30 pm.  Once the guests enter the Museum, they find the Museum completely transformed to reflect the theme of the night. Throughout the evening everyone comes in contact with the Museum’s spookiest and most unusual collections—specially displayed for them.  Party goers might find such hair-raising objects as T-rex teeth and claws, live tarantulas and scorpions from the Insect Zoo and owls and bats from the Mammalogy collection.  Thrilling scenes await them at every turn.  The Haunted Museum is one NHM’s most popular family events of the year with more than 1,000 people in attendance.

$5,000 - $25,000 (title sponsorship)

Bug Fair

The largest 2-day insect event in North America drawing more than 10,000 attendees, the Bug Fair hosts more than 60 exhibitors, including educational institutions, government agencies, local entomological societies and insect vendors.  Exhibitors offer samples of living and preserved insects, insect-themed books, toys, jewelry, clothes, educational tools, artwork and crafts.  Bug Fair visitors are also treated to a festive, entertaining and informative series of demonstrations, children’s craft activities, tarantula feedings, live animal presentations, performances, food tasting, and a host of insect themed culinary delights.

$10,000 - $40,000 (title sponsorship)

Spider Pavilion

Fall 2006

Spiders—also known as arachnids, creepy crawlers, daddy long legs, and pests—are one of the most successful species on the planet.  They also remain one of the most misunderstood.   For three years in a row the Natural History Museum will open the Spider Pavilion. The Pavilion focuses on the ecological significance of spiders while providing visitors with fun, engaging and educational activities. Hundreds of individual spiders representing three exotic species will be viewed. The Spider Pavilion is thoughtfully created to reflect the natural habitat of spiders; visitors will see these magnificent spinners just as they would in the wild.

$10,000 - $30,000 (title sponsorship)

School Visits Program

The Museum's School Visits program brings pre-K through twelfth grade school groups to the museum for a self-guided or docent facilitated visit at no cost. Teachers receive curriculum materials and study guides before their visit so they can prepare their students prior to the trip.  All materials and concepts correspond to California State Science and Social Science/History Standards. Teachers may also choose to conduct their own lessons as they tour the museum. The program serves more than 325,000 schoolchildren free of charge each year.

$10,000 - $150,000 (title sponsorship)

Artifact Loan & Classroom Collections

The Museum offers an extensive collection of museum-quality science specimens, historical objects and models, cultural artifacts and thematic teaching kits for loan by educators and individuals.  Teaching kits provide a complete unit of study on a variety of science, social studies and cultural subjects. These “hands-on” collections of specimens and artifacts are carefully selected for their relevance to the elementary curriculum and are made available to schools, school districts, and home-schoolers, especially where location or funding precludes a visit to the Museum. The collections impact more than 200,000 students and 7,000 teachers each year throughout five Southern California counties. 

$25,000 - $100,000 (title sponsorship)

Family and Children's Programs

Under the umbrella of Family and Children Programs, a wide array of activities and events await visitors to the Museum everyday of the week. Families can take advantage of the numerous daily activities in the Ralph M. Parsons Discovery Center, such as Story Time and Animal Presentations. They may also choose to take a gallery tour led by one of our docents-- kids also can’t resist the treasures revealed through the Curiosity Cart presentations. Monthly programs such as Critter Club and Family Fun Days prove to be wildly popular learning activities that families are excited to share together. Special events through the Weekends at NHM program and annual events such as the Bug Fair draw large crowds. With such a remarkable variety of programming available, every family is able to find a rewarding educational activity at the Museum to share together.  

$10,000 - $50,000

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