ArtsThursdays: Halloween at the Museum
Date and Time
October 23, 2025
05:00PM - 09:00PM EDT
Location
Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street)
Free In-Person Event
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
- 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.
- Decorate a trick-or-treat bag.
- Visit the brand new exhibit Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon in the Arthropods Gallery.
- Encounter real-life zombies: fruit flies hijacked by a brain-controlling fungus.
- 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.
Let us know you are coming! RSVPs are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage, 4:30–9:30 pm. Enter at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)
