Celebrate 90!

This year the Paleontological Research Institution is celebrating its 90th anniversary with an 18-month celebration starting in June 2022!

The year-and-a-half celebration will be filled with new public events, the return of classic PRI events that have been on hiatus, the launch of new exhibits and projects and the much-anticipated reopening of Cayuga Nature Center Lodge. We will also be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Nature Center and PRI merger (2023) as well as the 20th anniversary of the Museum of the Earth opening (2023).

Join us over the next year and a half as we celebrate 90 years of scientific and educational impact at PRI.

History of PRI

Upcoming Events

• Museum of the Earth 20th Anniversary Community Celebration - September 30, 2023

• Friends of PRI Reception at GSA Pittsburgh - October 16, 2023

Past Events

• Summer Symposium - August 12-13, 2023

• Return of History of Life - free lecture series - April 2023-May 2023

• Cayuga Nature Center Lodge reopens for Summer 2023 Season - May 19, 2023

• Cayuga Nature Center Summer Celebration - July 2, 2023

• Darwin Days 2023 - February 5-12, 2023

• New temporary exhibit opens at Museum of the Earth - March 2023

• September 10 – Black Diamond Access Trail Ribbon Cutting & Community Hike

• August 6–7, 2022 - Summer Symposium 2022

• August 2022 - Potorti Gorge Walks

• July & August 2022 - Fossil Collecting trips

• June 25, 2022 - Family Day

• June 21, 2022 - Giving is Gorges

• June 18, 2022 - Cayuga Nature Center Lodge Reopening