Lindsay Wildlife Museum
1931 First Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Telephone: (925) 935-1978
Fax: (925) 935-8015
(Walnut Creek is located east of San Francisco just off hwy 680)
Alexander Lindsay, known to his friends as Sandy, was a Lt.
Commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He subsequently entered into
the business world in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He moved to Walnut Creek,
California in the early 1950's.
Lindsay Wildlife Museum was founded by Alexander Lindsay, who started teaching neighborhood children about nature in the early
1950s when he
and a group of civic-minded people incorporated as the Diablo Junior Museum
Association in June, 1955. The institution's name was changed to the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum in 1962 to honor its founder after his premature death at age 44.
In 1996 the name was changed to Lindsay Wildlife Museum.
In the museum's wildlife hospital -- one of the largest and oldest wildlife rehabilitation centers in the United States -- volunteers treat nearly 6,000 injured or orphaned animals every year.
Some animals that cannot be returned to their natural home in the wild become part of the
museum's live collection. The museum's 8,000 square-foot exhibit hall is filled with over 50 species of
live, non-releasable native wild animals, a learning theatre and a
discovery room with hands-on opportunities for children.
Lindsay Wildlife Museum's goal is to educate people about their impact on California's wildlife, so that they may make informed choices about how their everyday behavior affects the wild animals and their habitats.
Lindsay Wildlife Museum currently serves more than 100,000 visitors each year, including 40,000 school children.
Approximately 700 volunteers are active in the museum's work, contributing more than
120,000 hours of service each year to education, wildlife care, museum operations, fundraising and outreach.
You can learn more about the Lindsay Wildlife Museum
at http://www.wildlife-museum.org/
Lindsay Wildlife Museum