Your Membership Makes a Difference!
Your membership preserves our local history, art, culture, and natural science and provides opportunities to explore its meaning; provides quality educational programs for school children, adults and families; and supports growth and expansion of volunteer programs.
Membership Benefits:
- Personalized Membership Card
- Subscription to the Monthly e-newsletter Tortoise Tales
- 10% Discount on all Purchases from the Gecko Gift Shop
- Invitations to Members’ Only Events, including the Critter Club
- Advanced Notice on Exhibitions, Special Events and Programs
- Opportunities to Enrich and Expand Your Life by Volunteering
- Special Discounts on Select Nature Study Courses offered through U.C. Riverside Extension and the Desert Institute
- Additional benefits offered to certain membership categories.
Membership Categories:
- Individual $20
- Individual Discounted with ID $15
Student/Military/Senior (60+) - Family $35
The above categories receive all the basic membership benefits listed above. - Business $100
Basic benefits listed above for two designated employees (individual or family membership) plus the business name mentioned in the museum e-newsletter and on the web site - Contributor $250
Basic benefits listed above (individual or family), mention in the museum e-newsletter and on the web site, plus a coupon for an extra 15% off of a single purchase from the Gecko Gift Shop - Sponsor $500
Contributor level benefits plus a $50 Gecko Gift Shop gift certificate - Benefactor $1,000
Sponsor level benefits plus first-time Benefactors receive a personalized brick through the Buy-a-Brick Program
Sign up for membership online below, or print our membership form (pdf) and mail it in.




