The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium will host its annual benefit gala, “Enchantment Under the Sea,” on Feb.

After what Hurricane Ian did to Sanibel Island and surrounding areas last September, places like the island's Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum deserve all of the good news it can get. José H.

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel will kick off its 2026 Season Lecture Series at the museum, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Note to readers: This is Part 5 in a five-part series. The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently met with Jose H. Leal at the ...

You could hear a pin drop during Jose Leal’s hour-long seminar titled Southwest Florida Amazing Mollusks, Friday, January 16, ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's new exhibit, "Brilliant Colors of the Sea," features photographs of nudibranchs. Nudibranchs are shell-less marine mollusks known for their vibrant colors ...

Note to readers: This is Part 2 in a five-part series. The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently met with Jose H. Leal at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel. Leal is ...

The visitors sway to the strains of an instrumental version of the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” as they point to images decidedly less mellow: gape-mouthed fish washing ashore in rusty waves of red tide. ...

Bailey Matthews National Shell Museum is a natural history museum with a unique focus on a group of animals called mollusks, or soft-bodied invertebrates with hard calcium carbonate shells. The museum ...

It’s so she can hang out with what’s in there: snails. Really she just wants to count them – or any evidence of them. And her description of these little beings with eyes on two stalks and little ...

A plethora of international shells is currently on display for tourists and shell enthusiasts to enjoy. The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium, located at 3075 Sanibel Captiva Road, has ...

It’s the geography of Sanibel and Captiva, a pair of islands off Florida’s west coast near Fort Myers, that has made them a destination for gathering seashells. The islands jut west into the Gulf of ...