Free ArtsThursdays: Halloween at the Museum

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 05:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harvard Museum of Natural History | Cambridge, MA

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Join us for a free night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage, 4:30–9:30 pm. Let us know you are coming! RSVPs are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.
https://tinyurl.com/ArtsThursHalloween
- Trick-or-Treat through the museum and check out some of our spookiest specimens.
- Wear your best Halloween costume and take photos at our photo booth.
- Visit the brand new exhibit, Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon in the Arthropods Gallery.
- Visit the exhibition Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination and explore the allure of serpents, krakens, and other mysterious creatures of the deep sea.
- Enjoy a variety of beverages for purchase (valid government ID required to consume alcoholic beverages).
- Enter a free raffle to win museum gifts and membership.
ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)
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Harvard Museum of Natural History, Mineralogical Museum-Harvard Univ, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

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