Teacher Appreciation Night (Cool Summer Nights)
Schedule
Sat Aug 23 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | Tucson, AZ
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With Summer ending and a new school year about to begin, we're celebrating Teachers and Support Staff! We appreciate all the hard work that it takes to inspire and educate our children. Bring your flashlight and explore, grab a local beer and wander, experience a live animal encounter, scamper in Packrat Playhouse, and feel the touch of a stingray.Tonight's Schedule and highlights:
- Free Admission for K-12 Teachers and Support Staff that Work in a School (Must show current school ID or a letter from your principal on letterhead attesting you are a school employee)
- Free Stingray Touch
- Freebies from community organizations
- Raffle
Teacher Appreciation Night is sponsored by Central Arizona Project. Thank you, CAP, for your generosity and support!
Get groovy! We’re throwing it back to the 1970s with music, vibes, and funky fun. Break out your bell bottoms, bold prints, and platform shoes — we want to see your best disco-era threads!
Presentations in the Warden Oasis Theater:
7:00 & 8:00 p.m. Learn about Desert Museum field trips, outreach and the FREE curriculum we offer! Plus you'll be treated to live animals and a raffle!
Throughout the Night:
Look for Museum Docents around grounds interpreting live animals, celestial desert skies, fluorescent minerals, bats, kissing bugs, scorpions, rattlesnakes, and more!
6:00 - 9:30 p.m. Stingray Touch Exhibit
Visitors are able to create their own moments with these captivating creatures at the Stingray Touch experience. The pool features cow nose stingrays that guests can interact with. Be touched by a ray!
6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Packrat Playhouse
This indoor play space allows children to discover the desert through the eyes of a packrat! Packrat Playhouse may reach capacity. 30-minute reserved play times are available at the Packrat Playhouse entrance.
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Art Exhibits
Make sure to check out 'Camouflage' in the Ironwood Gallery and 'Where the Light Gets In' in the Baldwin Gallery!
Signature Drink — Pink Eraser
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ABOUT COOL SUMMER NIGHTS:
Open till 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays June 7 - August 31, 2025! All Cool Summer Nights events are included with Museum admission.
The Desert Museum is lovely during the day, but it’s even cooler after dark! Join us every Saturday night throughout the summer to beat the heat while learning something neat! The desert comes alive at night as nocturnal animals awake. Bats perform aerial acrobatics in pursuit of dinner, otters splash around in their pond, and scorpions glow green under black light. Bring your flashlight and explore, grab a refreshing drink and wander, experience a live animal encounter, scamper in Packrat Playhouse, feel the touch of a stingray, or participate in special nightly activities.
Learn more: https://www.desertmuseum.org/visit/events_saturday_csn
Consider joining our membership program. A lot of bang for your buck! Learn more: http://www.desertmuseum.org/members/
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Where is it happening?
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tortise Exhibit, Tucson, AZ 85735, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
