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  1. Science on the Square: Free Family Night

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    Thursday, October 15 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

     

    It’s a FREE night of museum fun from 4–8 pm as the Wisconsin Science Festival presents Science on the Square: Madison Night Market Fusion. Check out all MCM has to offer in addition to an exciting line-up of hands-on science activities.

    Stop by to check out these hands-on science stations plus MORE activities throughout the museum!

    • Code to Connect – Coding Concept Activities
    • WCER and the Dept. of Educational Psychology – Learning through your body at the MAGIC Lab
    • Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection – Bug Out!
    • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom – Strawberry DNA Extraction
    • SleepHealth Ambassadors – Sleep Superheros: Unlock your hidden powers
    • ATC – How electricity flows
    • Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab – Story Stones
    • Wisconsin Center for Origins Research – Origins of Life
    • Cardea, Inc – Your heart & you
    • School of Medicine & Public Health – Keep your lungs squishy!
    • Social and Moral Learning Lab – Mind games: explore how your brain works
    • BadgerBots Team 1306 – Robotics demonstrations
    • UW-Madison Neuroscience Training Program – Human Brain Demonstration

    For more information about Science on the Square and to see all participating businesses, visit: wiscifest.org/SotS

     

     

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  2. Art Adventures: Haunted Dioramas

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    Unleash your imagination as you build a miniature scene filled with curious creatures and uncanny charm. Our “terrorium” project blends nature, art, and storytelling in a tiny world you create. Kids can build a diorama that’s mysterious or magical—whatever feels just right. All materials provided, and free with admission.

  3. Art Adventures: Terroriums

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    October 19, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    Unleash your imagination as you build a miniature scene filled with curious creatures and uncanny charm. Our “terrorium” project blends nature, art, and storytelling in a tiny world you create. Kids can build a diorama that’s mysterious or magical—whatever feels just right. All materials provided, and free with admission.

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  4. Downtown Madison Family Halloween

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    October 29, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Make MCM the first stop on your trick-or-treat trip around the Capitol Square! Enjoy a free, family-oriented Halloween celebration for kids 12 yrs and younger in downtown Madison. Join us for free playtime and outdoor activities, 3–6 pm in the Wonderground (enter on Dayton St.). This event is free to the public, no ticket required!

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  5. Science on the Square

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    October 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Back for its eighth year, the ever-popular Science on the Square event offers free science demonstrations and hands-on activities throughout Downtown Madison as part of the Wisconsin Science Festival. Join us for drop-in science fun from 5-8 pm, with activities led by:

    • Wisconsin Center for Origins Research: Exploring Exoplanets
    • UW Chemistry Department—Alpha Chi Sigma
    • Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom: Soil Rocks! 
    • SleepHealth Ambassadors: Snoozeapalooza
    • Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Invasive Species Hunt
    • UW-Madison Women in Chemistry: Cyanotype Sun Prints
    • UW-Chemistry GSFLC: Boo Bubbles
    • IBio Go: Who Are These Little Guys?
    • UW-Madison Schloss Lab: What Does This Feel Like? What Color Is That?
    • WIPAC: IceCube Neutrino Observatory: The Strangest Telescope in the World
    • UW-Madison Medical Physics: Putting the “Rad” in Radiation
    • Cardea: Keep Your Heart in Rhythm
    • BadgerBots: Robot Demo
    • Maydm: Make a Binary Beaded Keychain
    • UW-Madison Psychology Department: Rockin’ with the Data

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  6. Sensory-Friendly Halloween & Vaccination Clinic

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    November 1, 2024 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm

    Madison Children’s Museum welcomes children and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and/or sensory challenges to experience the museum during Sensory-Friendly Hours. This program aims to bring families together to learn through play in an environment that supports the unique needs of children with ASD and/or sensory challenges.

    During this event, SSM Health will provide a free vaccine clinic for ages 5 and up, with medical providers who specialize in administering vaccines to children with sensory processing challenges and fear of needles. This vaccine clinic is NOT just for individuals with extra sensory needs. Each person who wants to receive a vaccine registers individually for a ten-minute session (vaccinators can take families as a group at the museum, but they must register separately). The clinic will accept all types of health insurance, and will provide vaccines free of charge to those without insurance. Please click the registration link below for details on available vaccines.

    A variety of food and beverages, including entrees and snacks, will be available at the Lunchbox, our pay what you can cafe. Visitors may also bring their own food.

    Sensory-Friendly Halloween and the vaccine clinic are free for everyone, but pre-registration is requested. This event is presented in collaboration with the Autism Society of South Central Wisconsin.

    Register for Sensory-Friendly Halloween

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  7. Downtown Madison Family Halloween

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    October 30, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Make MCM the first stop on your trick-or-treat trip around the Capitol Square! Enjoy a free, family-oriented Halloween celebration for kids 12 yrs and younger in downtown Madison.

    Join us for free playtime and outdoor activities, 3–6 pm in the Wonderground (enter on Dayton St.) Join kids’ musician Ken Lonnquist and friends for a Haunted Disco set of silly, spine-tingling tunes, 4–5 pm. This event is free to the public, no ticket required!

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  8. Free Night: Science on the Square

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    October 17, 2024 @ 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: Enjoy an eerie, unusual 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: Right this very minute on a Wisconsin farm…
    • 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 perennial plants and soil best friends? 
    • UW-Madison Research in Developmental Disabilities and Language Lab
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