Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Join a history educator on a guided tour of the temporary exhibition, Art for Everyone: Bob Ross® and take a closer look at famous Bob Ross® paintings and his signature technique.

Learn about the adaptations and fascinating lives of coyotes. Hike the trail with an educator and listen for coyotes howling on a winter evening.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

Dive into the Dunn Museum's collections to explore two 1800s Crofton family cookbooks that were used at Fort Sheridan. Learn more about the Crofton family's time stationed there, and hear about Nicole's experiences testing out some of the recipes.

Build a bridge to nature with your young ones. Experience how multisensory nature connections help young children develop healthy and happy brains and bodies. Time spent in nature is critical to children's social-emotional, and physical development. Child-centered, exploratory, imaginative play fosters creativity, emotional well-being, independent learning, and problem-solving.

The Lake County History Symposium is an annual gathering of people interested in the history of Lake County, Illinois.

Grab some work gloves, help restore the environment, and get a behind-the-scenes look at your preserves!

The Dunn Museum will be open to those who need a calm and quiet visit before it is open to the public. A quiet room for stimulation breaks will be accessible. Creative crafts and manipulatives will be provided in our café space.

Join a naturalist and take a nice leisurely stroll through this beautiful preserve. Learn about the history of this site and take a close look at some of the interesting plants and animals that we come upon.

Join us for an introduction to identifying trees when there are no leaves. We'll learn how to use the branches, buds and bark of trees to tell them apart. Then, we head out into the preserve to practice what we learned.

Take a Bob Ross® style painting class with a designated Certified Ross® Instructor. Classes are specially suited for beginners; you need no previous experience to attend. You'll paint a beautiful Bob Ross® Wet-on-Wet Technique scene and at the end of your class you'll go home with a frame-ready painting that you never dreamed possible.