• Week 1: June 29 – July 2
  Secret Life of Bugs
• Week 2: July 6 – July 10 – SOLD OUT
  Wilderness Survival – SOLD OUT
• Week 3: July 13 – July 17 – SOLD OUT
  Nature Rocks! – SOLD OUT
• Week 4: July 20 – July 24 – SOLD OUT
  Warm and Fuzzy All Over – SOLD OUT
• Week 5: July 27 – July 31
  Flora, Foliage & Fungi
  Wild Kitchen (Grades 6-8) – SOLD OUT
• Week 6: August 3 – August 7
  Secret Life of Bugs
• Week 7: August 10 – August 14 – SOLD OUT
  Wilderness Survival – SOLD OUT
  Outdoor Adventures (Grades 6-8) – SOLD OUT
• Week 8: August 17 – August 21 – SOLD OUT
  Nature Rocks! – SOLD OUT
• Week 9: August 24 – August 28 – SOLD OUT
  Warm and Fuzzy All Over – SOLD OUT
• Week 10: August 31 – September 4 – SOLD OUT
  Flora, Foliage & Fungi – SOLD OUT

Did you know Tifft Nature Preserve is a department of the Buffalo Museum of Science? Well, you do now! And BMS Members receive special discounts on Tifft & BMS camps, programs, and even birthday parties throughout the year… not to mention 12 full months of free admission to the museum!

If you’re already a BMS member, be sure to sign into your cart to see the savings of $35 per camp week in your cart!

Not a BMS Member yet? Add a membership to your cart and start saving!

BONUS: The BMS and Tifft share the same shopping carts, so you can add camps from both locations to the same order!

• Children entering preschool to K in Fall ‘26
• Children entering grades 1 to 2 in Fall ‘26
• Children entering grades 3 to 5 in Fall ‘26
• NEW! Weeks 5 and 7 – Children entering grades 6 to 8 in Fall ’26

Camp Hours

All camps run 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Drop-off: 8:30 – 9 a.m.
Pick-up: 4 – 4:30 p.m

Late Pick-Up

4:30-5:30 p.m.; $12 per 30 minutes per day (must be arranged at time of registration)

See the list of expandable camp weeks on this page or visit our Event Calendar to select your camp(s) when registration opens. Camps fill quickly!

If you are interested in a camp that is sold out, fill out this form to be placed on the waitlist.

Please carefully select the correct Age Group for your camper(s). Before camp starts, be sure to review the Summer Camp Welcome Guide for important information on drop-off/ pick-up procedures, what to bring, and more.

In the weeks before camp starts, look for an email from CampDoc on how to electronically submit your camper’s Health Profile, Emergency Contacts, Permission for Pickup Information, Character Pledge, and Immunization Records. 

Campers will not be permitted at Camp until fully completed CampDoc forms and immunization records are received.

If you have not received this email, please contact us through [email protected].

Code of Conduct

Please review our Camper Code of Conduct here.

If you are interested in a camp that is sold out, fill out this form to be placed on the waitlist.

2026 Discovery Camp Scholarship Application:

Please inquiry about availability by emailing [email protected].

Our camp cancellation policy has changed. Click here to view our cancellation policy.

There are More Camps at the Buffalo Museum of Science for Pre-K to Grade 12!

Click here to see even more camps available at the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Explore the outdoors in search of live butterflies, dragonflies, worms, snails, and so much more! We will perfect our bug-catching skills, create bug-inspired art, and learn how to identify these tiny wild animals.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.
Please note the July session is a shorter camp week due to the holiday.

Price: $310 per camper (BMS Members save 10%)

Register Now

Enter the wilderness for a pretend adventure in search of shelter, food, fire-building materials, and animal clues. Practice camping skills, mapmaking, and more in the great outdoors!

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

“Dig” deep into the Earth to unlock the secrets of rocks, soil, and mysterious life underground. Play with clay, create fossils, grow crystals, and construct volcanoes as we explore the rockin’ science of geology.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

What’s warm and fuzzy all over? Mammals! Investigate the world of the warm-blooded by exploring the skulls, tracks, pelts, and scat of our local mammals like beavers, rabbits, deer, coyotes, and red fox.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

From mighty trees to tiny seeds, we will explore all things plants. Let’s grow a garden, dissect a flower, make a moss terrarium, and meet the most amazing organisms that only eat what’s dead – fungus!

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

Register Now

Explore the outdoors in search of live butterflies, dragonflies, worms, snails, and so much more! We will perfect our bug-catching skills, create bug-inspired art, and learn how to identify these tiny wild animals.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save 10%)

Register Now

Enter the wilderness for a pretend adventure in search of shelter, food, fire-building materials, and animal clues. Practice camping skills, mapmaking, and more in the great outdoors!

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

“Dig” deep into the Earth to unlock the secrets of rocks, soil, and mysterious life underground. Play with clay, create fossils, grow crystals, and construct volcanoes as we explore the rockin’ science of geology.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

What’s warm and fuzzy all over? Mammals! Investigate the world of the warm-blooded by exploring the skulls, tracks, pelts, and scat of our local mammals like beavers, rabbits, deer, coyotes, and red fox.

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

PLEASE NOTE WEEK 10 CAMPS ARE ONLY FOR GRADES 1-5.

From mighty trees to tiny seeds, we will explore all things plants. Let’s grow a garden, dissect a flower, make a moss terrarium, and meet the most amazing organisms that only eat what’s dead – fungus!

Activities adapted appropriately for each age group.

Price: $385 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

Get wild with us in the kitchen! We will be growing, harvesting, preparing, canning, and composting vegetarian food all week long! We’ll pickle vegetables, make butter and ice cream, taste local wild edible plants, learn about honeybees, and so much more!

This week includes field trips: Urban Farming at Massachusetts Avenue Project & Facility Tour of Farmer Pirates Composting.

Price: $475 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.

Let’s take wilderness survival up a notch with elevated explorations of orienteering, primitive tool-making, hiking, teambuilding, wild edible identification, in addition to real fire and shelter construction.

This week includes field trips: Indoor Rock Climbing at Central Rock Gym & Hike and Picnic at Chestnut Ridge Park.

Price: $475 per camper (BMS Members save $35)

This camp is sold out. If you are interested in adding your child to the waitlist, fill out this form.