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Imagine walking through a lush garden filled with color and native greenery as a live butterfly flutters right by your nose or maybe even lands on your head! The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History opened Butterflies Alive! on May 22. This popular exhibit is once again captivating visitors with the amazing experience of observing live butterflies in their natural habitat.

We invite you to help support this beautiful exhibit by adopting a butterfly. Your gift will ensure that the butterflies have plenty of flowers and fruit to eat as well as a healthy and a safe environment in which to live. Butterfly adoption is also a unique way to honor a friend or family member’s birthday or other special event. Listed at the bottom of the page are a variety of sponsorship levels along with the benefits associated with each donation size. (refreshing this page may be required to view sponsor levels.)

This summer the Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion allows for an intimate look at over 1,000 of these magnificent creatures as they bask in the sun or sip nectar from flower. For both children and adults alike, Butterflies Alive! is a unique and memorable experience.

The Butterflies Alive! exhibit will:

• Be a great place to learn about butterflies versus moths, butterfly bodies, the unusual butterfly life cycle, their use of camouflage and mimicry, and butterfly conservation.
• Offer visitors the chance to get “eye-to-eye” with a butterfly and to observe these marvelous insects close-up as they fly around and feed on nectar from
  flower or fruit juices.
• Provide information about local butterflies and how to create your own butterfly garden.
• Include an emergence chamber that offers the opportunity to watch the butterflies as they emerge from their chrysalis.

Sponsor Benefits	Swallowtail $5,000	Monarch $2,500	Queen $1,000	Gulf Fritillary $500	Painted Lady $250	Zebra Longwing $100	Julia $50
Opportunity to host private, after-hours party in the Pavilion
Complimentary tickets to the Members Party at the Museum May 29, 2009	4	2
Recognition on specific exhibit area, invitations to VIP events, exhibit previews, lectures and special tours
Live Butterfly Release
Behind the Scenes Tour
Complimentary tickets to the Museum to visit the Pavilion	10	6	4	2
Certificate of support
Recognition on the Wall of Wings
We appreciate your support. As a private, nonprofit organization that does not receive local, state, or federal government funding for our operations, the Museum depends on private donations from individuals and organizations.