Celebrate Halloweekend at the Hudson River Museum on Saturday, October 31, 11am–5pm! Enjoy the spookiest time of year through hands-on activities, art making, and a chance to see live reptiles and insects in action. Come dressed as your favorite creature and leave with the prize of a creepy crawly (trick or) treat! Plus, join in our costume parade at 2pm!
Come experience Exquisite Creatures, an exhibition featuring striking three-dimensional compositions of animal, mineral, and plant specimens created by artist and naturalist Christopher Marley, including butterflies, beetles, snakes, birds, lizards, fish, sharks, and more! Guided tours offered at 1 & 3pm.
Don’t miss Creature Features: Live Animal Show at 12 & 1pm, and get to meet real live critters including a bearded dragon, blue-tongued lizard, tarantula, and an eight-foot-long boa constrictor, brought to you by Uncle Tony’s Reptile Show. Learn fascinating facts about each creature—and maybe even get the chance to touch one.
Explore the scariest phenomena and creepiest sights the Universe has to offer in The Sky Tonight: Night Frights planetarium show. Bottomless black holes, ghostly nebulae, terrifying planets with rain made of liquid glass, and even some haunted-house worthy sites right here in the Solar System! Recommended for ages 8+; 60-minute live and interactive show. Advance ticket purchase is encouraged.
Full schedule of events:
11:30am — Planetarium Show: Little Skywatchers
12pm — Creature Features: Live Animal Show
12:30pm — Planetarium Show: Legends of the Night Sky
1pm — Creature Features: Live Animal Show
1pm — Museum Highlights Tour
2pm — Planetarium Show: The Sky Tonight
2pm — Halloween Costume Parade
3pm — Tour of Exquisite Creatures and Jungle Bliss
3:30pm — Planetarium Show: Asteroid Mission Extreme
12–4pm — Drop in for hands-on arts and science workshops including Halloween Masks, Día de Muertos skull lanterns, and flying bat puppets.
Día de Muertos
Plus, celebrate Día de Muertos at the HRM by contributing to our community altar, or ofrenda, which will be on view through October 17–November 1. You are invited to place a photograph of a departed loved one on the ofrenda (copies of photographs are preferable). If you are unable to participate in person, you may email a photo to Pedro Betanzos at pbetanzos@hrm.org. This year’s ofrenda is created by Xochiquetzal.
Celebrated on November 1 and 2, Día de Muertos is a tradition with deep roots in Mexico that honors and remembers loved ones who have died. November 1, often known as Día de los Inocentes, honors children who have passed, while November 2, known as Día de Todos Santos, is traditionally a day for families to remember departed relatives, including by visiting and decorating their graves