Halloween Day at the Museum
Creep into town for a costumed visit to your museum where we will have tons of Halloween activities to spook your scaries! Egyptian-themed activities and events will take place as well as amazing shows and wand-making! Instead of our recurring Sky Tonight show, we will have a similar one called "Scary Stories in the Stars” featuring stories found in the night sky across several cultures.
Join us from 12 PM - 4 PM on Saturday, October 26th, for hands-on activities, tricks & treats! Then stick around for the Downtown Halloween Parade at 4 PM! LASM's annual Halloween Day at the Museum will also feature classic Halloween favorites in the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, including Halloween Lazer shows.
The planetarium show schedule is as follows:
10 AM – Stargazing
10:30 AM – Ted’s Space Adventure
11 AM – Mummies
12 PM – Scary Stories in the Stars followed by Waiting Far Away
Scary Stories in the Stars is a presenter-led Sky Tonight show that examines some of the scary stories associated with the sky, stars, constellations, and cosmos. These stories include Draco the Dragon, the Babylonian myth of star creation, the story of Ophiuchus, and moon madness.
1 PM – T.Rex
2 PM – Fright Lite (laser show)
Fright Lite is a laser music show featuring music by Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper, Michael Jackson, and others. Are you ready for a bunch of spooky-themed songs set to choreographed laser light?!
3 PM - Worlds Within Star Wars
Worlds Within Star Wars is a planetarium show made in-house by our planetarium staff which deals with all the fictional worlds in the Star Wars universe. Together, we will look at if there are any real-world exoplanets, moons, or planets that are close to those seen in Star Wars. It is in no way affiliated to Star Wars and it’s not a live show, but educational and interesting nonetheless!
4 PM – Astronomical World of Harry Potter – live, presenter-led show
The Astronomical World of Harry Potter is a presenter-led show that deals with the fictional characters in the Harry Potter universe to look at how J.K. Rowling used the ancient Greek and Roman myths associated with astronomical objects and used them to flesh out the back stories of her own characters. We take a look at how Luna Lovegood got her name, how it relates to her character, the Black family tree, and how they’re all named after stars and constellations (the myths behind Draco, Remus, Fenrir, etc.) There will be wand-making before the show, and the participants of the show will help do planetarium magic with those wands by enlarging asteroids, transporting through space, and enlarging the moon!
More details to come!