Support the museum

The Lebanese Marine and Wildlife Museum is independent. It was built specimen by specimen by one person over more than twenty years, and it stays open the same way — through the people who visit it and support it.

Become a member

Membership costs $80 a year and includes:

• Free admission to the exhibits
• Twenty per cent off the museum shop and the restaurant
• Invitations to the museum’s events and activities
• Discounts on day camps, field trips, workshops and birthday parties

Add to the collection

Donating an object or a specimen adds directly to the collection. A single well-documented specimen can fill a gap in the record of what lives in Lebanon and its waters, and donors are recognised with honorary membership.

Other ways to give

Gifts can also be made through a will or trust, or as sponsorship and programme support from a company or foundation.

What your support pays for

Conserving more than five thousand specimens is quiet, constant work — cleaning, treating and repairing pieces that are decades old, and keeping seven halls open to visitors and school groups.

It also pays for Wildlife of Lebanon: the first national archive of the country’s flora and fauna, being built here species by species, free for anyone to use.