SPECIAL EVENT

Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Entry: Free for Members or included with Museum Admission | Location: Union Terminal

Fossils, Fun & Fright

It's all treats and no tricks during a family-friendly day of spooky fun. Go mad in the lab with our scientists, XXX and dance the Monster Mash. And what's a little Halloween fun without skeletons? We're going big with some of the biggest skeletons around: dinosaurs!

Fossil presentations in the Museum of Natural History & Science
  • 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Talk local fossils with the Kentucky Paleontology Society and the Cincinnati Dry Dredgers, Ancient Worlds Hiding in Plain Sight
  • 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. What's hiding in local creeks with the Behringer-Crawford Museum and the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, The Cave Plaza
  • 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Meet Cincinnati Museum Center curators and geology students from Miami University, Dinosaur Hall
Mad Science in the STEM Lab
  • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn about the Secret Life of Spices with the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society
Songs and Stories in The Children's Museum
  • 11 a.m. Join April Eight and listen to twisted tales of the scariest thing of all... friendship!
Making treats in the Cr(eat)e Culinary Studio featuring the Kroger Food Lab
  • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn how to make a tasty pumpkin ravioli with saged brown butter.
Kooky and Spooky Creations in History in the Making Classroom
  • 2 to 4 p.m. Get ready for frightful fun with art and science as you spin yarn, decorate a mask, learn new sewing tricks and try your hand at soldering with Hive13.