Science Museum of Minnesota

10/22/2026

What you can marvel at if you book a Bats, Bugs, and Bones tour for tomorrow 🕷️ 🕸️

Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology Dr. Catherine Early (and fellow biologists) are happy to show you around our collections, especially if you show this level of enthusiasm. Get tickets at https://smm.org/exhibits-experiences/tours/.

🦴 Bats, Bugs, Bones collections tours
📆 Friday Oct. 23, and 30 | 4-5 p.m.
🎟️ $75, includes museum admission

10/22/2026

🕷️ Supernatural science souvenirs 🕷️

When it comes to atypical adornments, feast your eyes no further than our Explore Store, where creepy, crawly, and cutesy creatures lurk in every corner. Shop our whole collection of spooky science, or purvey this curated assortment of uncanny items.

https://store.smm.org/collections/halloween

10/21/2026

10/20/2026

Turning our museum into mascot HQ for one day and one day only ‼️

Not every heart-pounding experience this month has to be scary. Join our friends from HealthPartners for a day celebrating the science of health with hands-on demonstrations about all things health and sports performance. From 11 a.m. to noon, meet mascots T.C. Bear from the Minnesota Twins, Nordy from the Minnesota Wild, Mudonna from the St. Paul Saints, Chilly of the Minnesota Wind Chill, and score some giveaways from participating teams.

🏥 HealthPartners Science of Health Day
🗓️ Saturday, Oct. 24 | 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
🎫 Included with admission

Get tickets at https://smm.org/event/fpd-health-partners/.

10/19/2026

Our Club Science: Halloween lineup is full of treats 🎶🍬

We're thrilled to announce that DJ OMGigi will be on the decks, keeping the dance floor bumping all night long. DJ OMGIGI is an artist, show producer, local luminary and icon originally from Atlanta but calls Minneapolis home now. She is best known for her Disconcé and Yeehawoncé parties, Flip Phone events, 613 Day, and selling her pop culture inspired enamel pins & croc charms at events around the city. This Material Gworl is the ultimate vibe curator and creates a space filled with love, joy, and dance!

Throughout the evening, enjoy a DIY slime bar from Twin City Slime, performances by our team of Science Live actors, and a real-time dissection by museum biologists.

Think you can hang? Get your tickets now at https://smm.org/event/club-science-halloween/.

🕺 Club Science: Halloween
🕗 Friday, Oct. 30 | 6-11 p.m.
🎫 $55, 10% member discount
🔞 21+, IDs checked at door

10/18/2026

The things you'll see on a Bats, Bugs, and Bones collections tour.

ONLY TWO TOURS LEFT FOR THE SEASON! If you can handle the creepy, the crawly, and the macabre, join us for an exclusive guided tour through the spookiest corners of our biological collections. Led by our expert scientists, you’ll step behind the scenes to encounter preserved specimens and articulated skeletons in ways you’ve never seen before.

🦴 Bats, Bugs, Bones collections tours
📆 Friday Oct. 16, 23, and 30 | 4-5 p.m.
🎟️ $75, includes museum admission

Get tickets at https://smm.org/exhibits-experiences/tours/.

10/17/2026

Every summer for well over a decade, the museum's own Dr. Ed Fleming sends a new group of students out into the field — trowels in hand, questions in mind — to get real, hands-on experience at an archaeological dig site. But, what happens after the dust settles and the season wraps up? Where do those experiences lead?

In the spirit of curiosity, we reached out to some of our past participants to find out what they’re up to now, whether Archaeology Field School nudged them toward a specific career in science, and what still reminds them of their time out at the dig.

To read their responses, in their own words, head to https://smm.org/2026/09/09/field-school-where-are-they-now/.

10/16/2026

Club Science: Halloween costume inspo 👯

Tickets are selling fast, don't forget to snag yours at https://smm.org/event/club-science-halloween/.

10/15/2026

... these birds are for sale... 🤭