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Thanks to a generous philanthropist, up to $30,000 will be matched to help finish our work on our museum interpretive master plan. This plan will provide the glue that holds the Museum’s collection, exhibits, and education programs together and will allow us to be more welcoming and inclusive to a broader range of the community. It will also be one of our core documents needed as we begin our American Alliance of Museums (AAM) self-study and our ultimate re-accreditation
in 2026. Thank you for supporting the museum’s future.

Museum Memberships

All member benefits are fully tax deductible and include:

  • Unlimited admission

  • Biweekly e-newsletter

  • Invitations to member exclusive events

  • Free guest passes

  • Discounts on store merchandise, events, classes, and camps

    * For levels $250 and above, contact admin@pgmuseum.org for all your benefits.

  • All member benefits for one adult, plus:

    • 10% savings in the Museum Store

    • 1 single-use guest pass

  • All member benefits for two adults, plus:

    • 10% savings in the Museum Store

    • 2 single-use guest passes

  • All member benefits for two adults, plus children or grandchildren, 17 and under, plus:

    • 20% savings in Museum Store

    • 2 transferable guest passes

    • Discount on birthday parties, camps, and kids’ clubs

  • All member benefits for two adults, plus children or grandchildren, 17 and under, plus:

    • 20% savings in the Museum Store

    • 2 transferable guest passes

    • Discount on birthday parties, camps, and kids’ clubs

    • 2 free tickets to our Night Owl event

  • All member benefits for two adults, plus children or grandchildren, 17 and under,plus:

    • 20% savings in the Museum Store

    • 4 transferable guest passes

    • Discount on birthday parties, camps, and kids’ clubs

    • 4 free tickets to our Night Owl event

  • All Patron benefits, plus:

    Guided tour of the Monarch Sanctuary

    10% Facility rental discount

  • All Curator's Circle benefits, plus:

    Invitation to behind the scenes, curator-led tour of the collection

Support our Future

The biggest investment you can make in the Museum is to support our general operations. As the only Natural History Museum on the Central Coast dedicated to preserving our natural and cultural history, please consider investing in our future. To learn more about our priorities, review the document below.

If you’re inspired to donate to the Museum, please consider monthly or annual gifts. By being a repeat donor, you provide a dependable base of revenue to support our general operations. Please select Program Operations on the drop-down designation field.

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Adopt-a-Bird Sponsorship

Make a positive difference for the environment and the museum by adopting a bird today. Your sponsorship supports bird conservation and helps with collection management. Each adoption is meaningful for one year, helping preserve our natural history for future generations.

When you adopt a bird you will receive:

  • Your name displayed on the bird mount in the Museum for one year

  • A specially designed bookmark just for you

    *The Museum is a non-profit organization and all adoptions are tax deductible as allowed by law.

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Sample of Available Birds

  • Black Throated Swallow

    COPPER LEVEL

  • Northern Fulmar

    BRONZE LEVEL

  • Canvasback

    SILVER LEVEL

  • Common Loon

    GOLD LEVEL

  • Hooded Merganser

    PLATINUM LEVEL

  • Greater Roadrunner

    DIAMOND LEVEL

  • Barn Owl

    JADE LEVEL

Complete List of Adoptable Birds

  • American Coot
    Common Gallinule
    Common Mure
    Grasshopper Sparrow
    Orange Crowned Warbler

  • Acorn Woodpecker
    American Goldfinch- Male
    American Pipit
    Ash Throated Flycatcher- Female
    Barn Swallow- Female
    Barn Swallow- Male
    Bell’s Sparrow
    Black Phoebe
    Black Throated Blue Warbler- Male
    Black Throated Grey Warbler- Female
    Black Headed Grosbeak- Female
    Black Headed Grosbeak- Male
    Black Throated Sparrow
    Blue Gray Gnatcatcher- Male
    Bonaparte’s Gull
    Bonaparte’s Gull- Male (Alt. Plumage)
    Brewer’s Black Bird- Female
    Brewer’s Black Bird- Male
    Brown Headed Cowbird- Female
    Brown Headed Cowbird- Male
    Bullock’s Oriole-Female
    Bullock’s Oriole-Male
    Canada Goose
    Cassin's Vireo
    Chestnut Backed Chickadee- Juvenile
    Chipping Sparrow- Male
    Clark’s Nutcracker- Male
    Cliff Swallow- Female
    Cliff Swallow- Male
    Common Gallinule
    Common Yellowthroat- Male
    Dunlin- Alt. Plumage
    Dunlin- Basic Plumage
    European Starling- Male (Alt. Plumage)
    Fox Sparrow-Male
    Fox Sparrow- Male
    Glaucous Gull
    Glacous Winged Gull- Male
    Golden Crowned Kinglet
    Golden Crowned Sparrow
    Horned Lark- Female
    Horned Lark- Male
    House Sparrow- Female
    House Wren
    Lawrence’s Goldfinch- Male
    Lawrence’s Goldfinch- Male
    Least Bittern
    Lesser Goldfinch- Male
    Marsh Wren
    Mew Gull
    Nashville Warbler
    Northern Red Breasted Sapsucker-Male
    Oak Titmouse- Female
    Olive Sided Flycatcher- Male
    Pacific Slope Flycatcher
    Purple Finch- Female
    Purple Finch- Male
    Red Winged Blackbird- Female
    Red Winged Blackbird- Male
    Ring Billed Gull
    Rock Wren- Female
    Sabine’s Gull- Male
    Savannah Sparrow- Female
    Song Sparrow- Female
    Spotted Towhee- Female
    Spotted Towhee- Male
    Tree Swallow
    Tricolor Blackbird- Female
    Tricolored Blackbird- Male
    Vaux’s Swift- Female
    Vesper Sparrow- Male
    Violet Green Swallow- Juvenal
    Violet Green Swallow- Male
    Warbling Vireo- Female
    Western Bluebird- Juvenile
    Western Lark Sparrow- Female
    Western Meadowlark- Male
    Western Wood Pewee
    White Breasted Nuthatch- Male
    White Throated Sparrow- Male
    White Throated Sparrow
    White Throated Swift
    Wilson’s Warbler- Female
    Winter Wren
    Wrentit- Male
    Yellow Breasted Chat
    Yellow Rumped Warbler- Female
    Yellow Rumped Warbler- Male
    Yellow Warbler- Female
    Yellow Warbler- Male
    Yellow Warbler- Male

  • American Coot
    Ancient Murrelet
    Arctic Tern - Male
    Baird’s Sandpiper- Female
    Black Legged Kittiwake
    Black Tern - Male
    Black Turnstone - Female
    Black Vented Shearwater
    Blue Grosbeak- Male
    Buller’s Shearwater
    California Thrasher - Female
    Caspian Tern - Chick
    Cassin’s Auklet - Male
    Clapper Rail - Female
    Clark’s Grebe
    Common Ground Dove
    Common Tern
    Common Tern
    Dunlin
    Dunlin
    Eared Grebe - Alt. Plumage
    Eared Grebe
    Evening Grosbeak- Female
    Evening Grosbeak- Male
    Flammulated Owl
    Forster’s Tern - Male
    Lazuli Bunting- Female
    Lazuli Bunting- Male
    Least Tern
    lesser Nighthawk
    Long Billed Dowitcher - Basic Plumage
    Northern Goshawk
    Northern Fulmar - Dark Morph
    Northern Fulmar
    Northern Pygmy Owl- Female
    Northern Waterthrush - Male
    Ovenbird - Female
    Phainopepla- Female
    Phainopepla- Male
    Pine Siskin
    Pink Footed Shearwater
    Red Crossbill- Female
    Red Crossbill- Male
    Red Phalarope - Female (Alt. Plumage)
    Red Phalarope - Male
    Red Necked Phalarope - Female
    Red Necked Phalarope - Female (Alt. Plumage)
    Red Necked Phalarope - Juvenal
    Rose Breasted Grosbeak- Male
    Royal Tern - Male
    Ruddy Duck
    Ruddy Duck
    Ruddy Turnstone - Male
    Semipalmated Plover - Male
    Sharp Shinned Hawk- Male
    Semipalmated Plover
    Short Tailed Shearwater
    Swainson's Thrush
    Surfbird - Alt. Plumage
    Surfbird - Juvenal Plumage
    Virginia Rail
    Wandering Tattler - Alt Plumage
    Wandering Tattler - Juvenal
    Western Grebe
    Western Gull
    Western Gull - Immature
    Western Sandpiper- Male
    Western Tanager- Male
    Western Tanager- Male
    Whimbrel- Female
    Willet
    Wilson’s Phalarope - Male
    Wilson’s Snipe
    Yellow Billed Cuckoo
    Yellow Rail
    Yellow Headed Blackbird- Female
    Yellow Headed Blackbird- Male

  • American Wigeon - Female
    American Wigeon - Male
    Anna’s Hummingbird - Female
    Ashy Storm Petrel
    Black Bellied Plover
    Black Brant
    Black Chinned Hummingbird - Male
    Black Scoter - Male
    Black Storm Petrel - Male
    Brandt’s Cormorant - Male
    Bufflehead - Female
    Bufflehead - Male
    Canvasback - Female
    Cinnamon Teal - Female
    Common Goldeneye - Female
    Common Goldeneye - Male
    Common Merganser - Female
    Common Merganser - Male
    Common Merganser - Male
    Double Crested Cormorant
    Fork Tailed Strom Petrel- Male
    Gadwall - Female
    Gadwall - Male
    Greater White Fronted Goose - Male
    Greater White Fronted Goose
    Greater Yellowlegs
    Green Winged Teal- Female
    Green Winged Teal- Male
    Harlequin Duck - Female
    Harlequin Duck - Male
    Leach’s Storm Petrel- Male
    Lesser Scaup - Female
    Lesser Scaup - Male
    Lesser Yellowlegs
    Mallard - Female
    Mountain Plover
    Mountain Quail
    Northern Shoveller- Female
    Northern Shoveller- Male
    Pectoral Sandpiper
    Red Knot
    Redhead- Female
    Redhead- Male
    Ring Necked Duck - Male
    Ross’s Goose
    Short Eared Owl
    Snow Goose
    Townsend’s Solitaire
    Varied Thrush - Female
    Varied Thrush - Male

  • American Bittern and Egg
    Black Rail - Female
    Cattle Egret - Male
    Common Loon
    Common Loon
    Horned Puffin-Female
    Pigeon Guillemot - Female
    Layson Albatross
    Mountain Quail
    Pigeon Guillemot- Female
    Pigeon Guillemot
    Rhinoceros Auklet - Male
    Snowy Egret
    Tufted Puffin
    Calliope Hummingbird - Male

  • California Quail- Male
    Common Poorwill- Male
    Hooded Merganser- Female
    Hooded Merganser- Male
    Long Tailed Duck- Male
    Marbled Murrelet- Female
    Northern Harrier- Female
    Northern Harrier - Male
    Parasitic Jaeger- Male
    Pacific Loon - Alt. plumage
    Pied Billed Grebe
    Parasitic Jaeger - Male
    Red Breasted Merganser- Male
    Red Necked Grebe
    Red Throated Loon - Female
    Red Throated Loon - Male
    Ruddy Duck- Male
    Ruddy Duck- Female
    Rofous Hummingbird- Male
    Surf Scoter - Female
    Surf Scoter - Male
    White Winged Scoter- Female
    White Winged Scoter - Male
    Yellow Billed Loon - Female

  • Greater Roadrunner
    Prairie Falcon
    Sandhill Crane- Female
    Spotted Owl
    Tundra Swan
    Turkey Vulture

  • California Condor- Female
    Great Egret- Male

Business Memberships*

All Business Members receive:

  • Your logo with live link on our website

  • Invitation to select member and donor events for your board officers

  • Upon request, meeting setup and breakdown of 20 chairs and 2 tables

  • 4 Museum guest passes per organization

  • Tax-deductible member dues

    *Please coordinate with your museum representative to receive your benefits.

  • Five 2-hour business meetings per year in the Bird Gallery (upon request)

    1 Free ticket to Night Owl, our signature special event

  • Five 2-hour business meetings per year in the Bird Gallery (upon request)

    One education presentation* by a museum scientist

    2 Free tickets to Night Owl, our signature special event

    E-newsletter and web calendar spotlight minimum once per year which reaches over 3,000 people

  • Ten 3-hour business meetings per year in the Bird Gallery and listed on our events calendar (upon request)

    Half-page Ad in the Museum’s Annual Event Program

    Free one-hour collection tour OR one education presentation* by a museum scientist

    3 Free tickets to Night Owl, our signature special event

    E-newsletter and web calendar spotlight minimum once per year which reaches over 3,000 people

  • Ten 3-hour business meetings per year in the Bird Gallery and listed on our events calendar (upon request)

    Full-page Ad in the Museum’s Annual Event Program

    One education presentation* by a Museum scientist

    Free one-hour collection tour

    4 Free tickets to Night Owl, our signature special event

    E-newsletter and web calendar spotlight minimum once per year which reaches over 3,000 people

Choose the Level that’s Right for your Organization:

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Support Museum Field Trips

Every year, the Museum hosts thousands of students with FREE museum field trips. Schools sometimes have trouble paying for things like bus rides. Your donation can help more K-5 students visit the Museum and learn about nature. Your donation could spark a love for nature that lasts a lifetime. Please donate today to support student field trips.

Stewardship Fund

Did you know there are other ways to support the future longevity of the Museum? As stewards of your generous donations, we created a Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Stewardship Fund at the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Managed by a professional investment team, the funds are placed in an investment pool, providing the benefits of a diverse investment portfolio and low investment fees that typically come only with very large funds. A trusted investment and a good way to support the Museum.

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Monarch Society

The Monarch Society includes our most influential and dedicated supporters who believe in growing the Museum and stewarding the natural world and cultural history of the California central coast.

Their historic and continued commitment, of $2,000 or more annually, has helped us grow into the thriving Museum we are today, and their impact has been felt deeply on our exhibits, programs, and outreach efforts to bring the wonders of the natural world to Monterey County residents. In recognition of their support, we created the Monarch Society, which offers special access to the Museum and its collections. For them we host exclusive events each year that reflect the mission of the Museum and provide roadmaps to where we’re headed next.

If you want to impact the Museum’s future and support some of our larger capital projects, consider joining the Monarch Society today. Contact Susan Wolfe, Director of Development and Engagement, at Wolfe@PGMuseum.org or 831-648-5716 ext. 26.

 Leave a Legacy

Have you thought about your legacy and how you want to be remembered by your family, friends, and community? Our Museum has always been deeply rooted in community. At its heart, we have strived to create a space of learning and discovery to connect everyone who wants with the natural world. Our collections act as a gateway to history, a key revealing secrets of the past and wonders of the present and preserving them is a vital tenant of our mission and work.

Leaving a planned gift to the Museum goes so far beyond our building, it’s a legacy that lives on in the community. It reaches all corners of the County by supporting our work. The 1883 Society, aptly named for the first year we opened our doors, honors those extraordinary people who have included the Museum in their estate plans to ensure that the Museum serves the community through our exhibits, collections, and education programs.

 As a small non-profit, your gift will have a dramatic impact on the Museum and the natural world for generations to come. We highly recommend that you contact your Financial Adviser to discuss the best way to achieve your goals and for all legal advice. The Museum is a non-profit organization and all donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. 

If a planned gift to the Museum is part of your estate plan, then we would be happy to ensure your wishes are fulfilled. Simply complete the form below or contact Susan Wolfe, Director of Development and Engagement at 831.648.5716 ext. 26 or wolfe@pgmuseum.org.

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