Purple Globe Thistle in Kirkwood Gardens

Tribute Gifts

Create a lasting memory to honor or remember a person or celebrate a special occasion, such as a birthday or anniversary.

Your gift helps to care for and feed our ambassador animals, to maintain buildings, trails, and exhibits, to provide excellent educational programs, and to help provide opportunities for more people to learn about New Hampshire’s natural world.

We hope you find Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to be an important resource that stimulates and educates, that provides value to the community, and enhances the region.

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For questions about Tribute Gifts please contact Rachel Saliba, Development Director at 603-968-7194 x 126 or email

Elisabeth Bobrow, 06/25/21
All three generations of our family enjoyed the whole place! It is so well thought out and put together. I figured our young kids would be most interested in the real live animals, but all the educational exhibits were so well thought out and interactive, the kids actually spent more time learning from the exhibits then watching the animals in front of them. That's how engaging and well done they were! Beautiful place as well, and so nice and shaded for an easy walk for all. The natural playground in the middle was thoroughly enjoyed and well placed to get some energy out midway through the learning path. I highly recommend this place.
Laura Himes, 01/09/20
Kids loved this place. The dinosaur exhibit is awesome and it’s very educational in many different ways. A place to return to for sure!
Terra Fletcher, 10/30/21
Loved this place when I was seven and love it still. It's only gotten better, while keeping a lot of the charming natural interactive pieces that I remember. Even now I had a lot of TIL moments. We went when it was raining so it was pretty quiet, and all of the animal enclosures have covered areas so we didn't even get too wet. Animals looked healthy and calm as well.
Emily Morgan, 09/15/20
Since discovering this place a few years ago I have been in love. I make it a mission to visit at least once a year. Last year I even had my daughters birthday here! Most recent visit was Saturday when me and my husband were celebrating our wedding anniversary. I highly recommend this place. Animals are amazing and well taken care of. The path ways are also well tended to.
Lauren Busby, 10/17/18
We go here once a year and always love it. My son has been going since he was 2 and gets something out of it every year. It's a great little home and we love to learn about the animals.

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