Save the date and plan your costume. The Museum’s Halloween-themed weekend is returning. Festivities include drop‑in activities, design challenges, live presentations, and a member‑only raffle. Family‑friendly costumes encouraged!
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Halloween-themed weekend at Museum of Science Boston offers drop‑in activities, design challenges, live presentations, and a member‑only raffle; costumes encouraged.
Drop-In Craft at Boston Public Market — craft activities for ages 3–13.
Family Halloween Party & Pumpkin Stroll (Boston Public Market) — all ages.
Story time with books and songs in the Rey Room at the Central Library, for ages 0–7.
Boston Birding with Family at Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary in Mattapan, open to all ages.
Face painting by FaceArt at Boston Public Market.
Docent‑led 90‑minute tour in front of the Hunnewell Building explores over a mile of the Arboretum’s 281‑acre landscape, highlighting woody plant collections and current blooms.
Mark Rober leads hands‑on engineering demos, conversation, and audience participation at the Museum of Science Boston.
Immersive sound‑and‑image installation built from a decade of field recordings from endangered ecosystems surrounds visitors at Museum of Science Boston.
Interactive program at Museum of Science Boston explores wildfire impacts on human and forest health and community actions to become smoke ready.
Miss Celeste reads Halloween stories at Roslindale, Roslindale, for ages 5 and under.
Drop-In Knitting (Faneuil, Brighton) — Open knitting session; bring needles and yarn, meet other knitters, ages 18 and up.
Panel discussion on wildfire smoke, climate, and public health at the Museum of Science Boston, presented with World Forestry Center and The Air We Share.
