Lindsay Wildlife Experience

Lindsay is the first wildlife hospital established in the United States, and a popular family museum in the East Bay Area near San Francisco.

Founded in Walnut Creek in 1955, the museum's programs "connect people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share."

In fall 2013, the museum opened the new exhibit The Burrow where visitors can go "underground" to discover the world of wildlife beneath their feet.

[1][2] The wildlife rehabilitation hospital at the museum receives more than 5,000 California native wild animal patients every year.

Hospital staff and volunteers treat animals that have been poisoned, struck by automobiles, fallen from trees during trimming, and injured by other often human-related activities.

Of the 70 animals that call Lindsay Wildlife home, nearly all of them have a physical, psychological, or behavioral problem that would make them unable to survive in the wild.

A close-up photograph of Bubo, Lindsay's resident great horned owl
A North American beaver returning to the wild after being successfully rehabilitated at Lindsay Wildlife Hospital
A North American porcupine in a tree.
Penelope, Lindsay Wildlife Experience's resident North American porcupine