Halloween Night at the Exploratorium

Join us for an adult evening of deathly delights, including creepy cocktails, such as the Bloody Mary and the Corpse Reviver, and a festive funeral where we'll mourn scientific notions killed off by cold, hard evidence. Cloak yourself in a costume and come see a knife slicing into a cow heart; handle snakes, lizards, and other crawling, slithering reptiles; or decorate a skull made from molten sugar that you can take home.

Sugar Skull-Making Demonstrations 6:30, 7:30, & 8:30 p.m. Central Gallery See local artist Irma Ortiz shape skulls from molten sugar, then decorate a confectionary calavera of your own.

Cow Eye Dissections 7:00 & 9:00 p.m. East Gallery

Heart Dissections 8:00 p.m. East Gallery

Pumpkin Dissections 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, & 9:30 p.m. East Gallery

Decay Tank Crossroads Watch a rotting carcass getting devoured, becoming a devilish lunch for scavenging insects known as dermestid beetles.

Cemetery of Dead Science Atrium Creep through a graveyard of debunked science. Do you think some of these ideas might be undead?

Pumpktris South Gallery A version of the classic video game Tetris, embedded in a pumpkin but fully playable, with the stem serving as the controller.

Slime, Spooky Cups, and Glowing Skulls With Explorables Volunteers West Gallery Make gloopy, colorful slime, a glowing skull from laundry detergent, or a cup that makes mysterious sounds. Take home what you make!

Garden of Carnivorous Plants East Gallery Admire the trappings of these predatory plants and catch a dissection to better understand their digestive systems

Cocktails from the Cauldron Our bartenders will be conjuring bubbling potions to put fire in your belly. Revive yourself with a Corpse Reviver #2 or a Bloody Mary.