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The Buena Vista Museum needs volunteers to serve as docents. Add interest to your life and help our community by taking advantage of the Museum’s free docent training.


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Science As Performing Arts (SAPA) is a day of science fun for the whole family. Click on the SAPA logo for more information.
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The mission of the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History is to educate and involve the community, through recovering, preserving and displaying local and world wide natural history objects.

The Buena Vista Museum promotes the scientific and educational aspects of earth history, particularly paleontology, biology, geology and anthropology. This is done through public education, research, and by serving as a repository for fossils, and other natural history items. High priority is given to documenting and displaying the rich, unique aspects of the natural history of Kern County. The museum is the repository of the Bob and Mary Ernst Collection, the largest private collection of Sharktooth Hill Miocene fossils in the World.

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Contact us at: 661-324-6350

Address: 2018 Chester Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93301

Web Master: Sherry Pauley
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Image link to our Science Camp Programs for Kids
Link to Sharktooth Hill located in Kern County, California
Link to The San Joaquin Valley Through Time - Submitted by Tim Elam
Link to The McKittrick Tar Seeps - Submitted by Tim Elam
Link to Mount St. Helens - 20 Years Later - Submitted by Tim Elam
Link to The San Andreas Fault
Link to Yosemite Valley
Link to SHARKS: BUILT FOR THE JOB Submitted by Mark Hodson

Kern County Fossils - This page is under construction