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 Fall hours: open Weds–Sun, 9 am–4 pm • Free Thurs nights, 4 pm–8 pm • Get tickets

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Free Night: Science on the Square

Thursday, October 17 @ 4:00 pm 8:00 pm

Enjoy FREE admission 4-8 pm as part of Science on the Square, an event for all ages that kicks off the Wisconsin Science Festival. Join us for hands-on STEM activities, including:

  • UW Neuroscience Outreach, 5-7:45 pm: Join our friends from UW Neuroscience for brain-building activities and interact with REAL neurological specimens. 
  • MCM Wild Wonders: Squishy Circuits. 5-7 pm: Making circuits using play dough and LED lights.
  • MCM Idea Lab, 5-7 pm: Create art and storytelling projects with the Idea Machine
  • Sound Science: theremin and plastic bag percussion demo, 5-6 pm  
  • Sound Science: Makey-Makey synthesizer demos, 6-8 pm
  • Sound Science: UW Speech & Hearing Clinic: How do we hear?
  • Story Time with Alice in Dairyland, 5-5:15 pm and 6-6:15 pm
  • Women in Chemistry: How does the sun power chemical reactions?
  • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom: From farm to form – can you grow bioplastics?
  • UW IBio Go: Get to know our aquatic invertebrate friends
  • UW-Madison Hite Lab: How does a tiny parasite travel from the lake to the sky?
  • UW-Madison Freedman and Whitman Lab: what can you see in the soil?
  • UW-Madison Picasso Lab: why are perennials and soil best friends? 
  • UW-Madison Research in Developmental Disabilities and Language Lab
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