Causes: Arts & Culture, Museums

Mission: The Museum provides visitors with a very personal hands-on learning experience. It includes a natural science teaching collection, exhibits, and trails. The Museum has rescued many specimens and is using them as teaching tools. The Museum''s mission is to develop awareness and appreciation of the natural world and the environment through its hands-on collections, trails, and on-site and outreach educational programs. The Museum sponsors educational programs throughout the year for adults and children. The museum is run entirely by volunteers.

Target demographics: Everyone interested in nature and the environment

Direct beneficiaries per year: 3,000

Geographic areas served: Contoocook, NHMerrimack County, NHNew England and beyond

Programs: Speakers Bureau at Hopkinton LibraryNatureFest at Gould Hill Orchard in September