Museum in the Dark

 Thursday, October 29

6 pm to 8 pm

Presented in partnership with Cornell Astronomy and the International Year of Astronomy

Explore the Museum after-hours Halloween-style! Make comets, go on a flashlight tour, hold some creepy crawlies, visit astronomy trick-or-treat stations, make your own cider, and more! Come dressed in your costume and we'll have a spooktacularly good time!

Members: $5 adult - $3 student/senior - $2 Youth (4 to 17) - Children 3 and under are Free

Non Members: $10 adult - $7student/senior - $5 Youth (4 to 17) - Children 3 and under are Free

Evening Schedule:

Demos at 6:00, 6:30, and 7:00

      -Making Comets with Dry Ice
      -Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
      -Learn to make a scale model of planets in the solar system

Ongoing Activity Trick or Treat Stations from 6:00 to 7:30 pm

      -Dark Matter
      -How Many Stars in a Galaxy?
      -Spandex Universe
      -Our Moon
      -Pumpkin Constellation Patters
      -Infrared Camera
      -Planet Bottles
      -Mars
      -Spectroscopes
      -Hands-on Optics
      -Looking through a Telescope

Also Ongoing -

      -Observe the night sky with telescopes
      -Check out some creepy crawly insects
      -Meet some of the Cayuga Nature Center's slithery creatures
      -Help make your own Apple Cider in our press

Flashlight Tour of the Museum at 7:30