Annual Open House

Please note, due to the construction of our new center for ocean education and innovation, and with the safety of visitors in mind, we are not hosting our annual open house in 2024. Please keep an eye out for other Bigelow Laboratory events in and around the community this summer, like our Café Sci Series, which will be in-person only and hosted at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor this year.

Bigelow Laboratory scientists explore environments all over the world, and they bring all they learn back to our state-of-the-art facility in East Boothbay, Maine

Each July, we invite the public to visit our laboratory and hear first-hand from the researchers conducting our bold ocean science. Our staff lead a wide range of scientific demonstrations and activities for visitors of all ages. Visitors can meet some of the ocean’s most important organisms, see autonomous gliders that travel across the Atlantic Ocean, and learn how scientists are working to improve the future for the planet and all of us that call it home.