29th Annual Darwin Day Celebration
February 13th, 2026 | 6:30PM – 9:30PM
Price: General Admission $25 | MOSAC Members $20 | Students $10
(Parking and refreshments included. Cash bar available for beer & wine)
Speaker: Dr. Rick Grosberg
Celebrate Charles Darwin’s Birthday At MOSAC
The second longest-running Darwin Day celebration in the world is happy to be back at MOSAC. This annual celebration features a science presentation and draws individuals who hold science in high regard and want to sustain scientific integrity of school curricula and programs. For the fourth consecutive year the celebration will be held in the state-of-the-art planetarium at the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity on February 13, 2026, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm at 400 Jibboom St. Sacramento, California.
what is darwin day?
Sacramento’s Darwin Day Educational Gala is a community-based public event conducted annually around Charles Darwin’s birthday. In the context of a party, its educational components are intended to foster in attendees a passion for science education. A presenter, usually a scientist or Darwin expert, speaks each year, highlighting science’s contributions to humanity. Since 1998, the Sacramento area has hosted the annual event at various community venues with various sponsoring organizations and individuals. Desmond notes that “MOSAC’s opening and collaboration with us are extremely exciting for everyone who appreciates science and its role in benefiting mankind.”
Dr. Rick Grosberg
About The Speaker
“Throughout my career, my research has centered on the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life, from DNA to genes, from unicellular to multicellular organisms, and from families to complex societies of multicellular organisms. I’m especially interested in the mechanisms that regulate the inevitable conflicts of interest between different levels of biological organization. I’m also fascinated and attracted by the history of ideas, and – as a marine evolutionary biologist – to Darwin’s notoriously complicated and misunderstood relationship with the sea. Over the last few years, my research has inescapably emphasized the impacts of climate change and other human activities on the ecological and evolutionary resilience of marine populations and ecosystems. And, most recently, I have explored the causes and consequences of differing patterns of biodiversity across the major realms of life.”
The History of Sacramento’s Darwin Day
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