Thursday Feb 27 6-9 p.m. Museum Adventure After Dark. History Science, and Culture with a Twist! An 18+ Event

    Tickets are ON SALE NOW for this smash hit Museum event! Delight in discovery again while supporting the Grand Rapids Public Museum at this casual and interactive fundraiser.

    Get Your Tickets

    Tickets are $55, with a discounted rate of $50 for GRPM members.
    Includes one drink ticket, and unlimited appetizers and activities.

    A portion of the proceeds from this event benefit educational programs at the GRPM.

    The Museum Adventure After Dark Experience:

    • Access to all three floors of Museum exhibits… at night! 

    • Guided and independent fun educational activities

    • Interactive shows at the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium. 

    • Opportunities to support the GRPM’s work and Collections

    • Casual attire, come as you are!

    • Appetizers and drinks

      This is an 18+ event

    Interested in sponsoring this unique event?

    Contact Development Manager Lyric Floria | lfloria@grpm.org, (616) 929-1704

    visitor looks at a fossil held by an educator
    Three visitors pose in the galleria below the hanging whale skeleton
    A hand holding a bright red cocktail with a lemon wedge and blueberries skewered by a tookthpick laid artfully on top
    Visitors look at the food table by the Mandela exhibit. A crowd is visible around them.
    Three guests point to a diagram on a table. Also on the table, a microscope, and a fishtank.
    A visitor in a headwrap and bright green dress waits for a cocktail at the bar in front of Mandela: The Official Exhibition
    A crowd roams the galleria
    A guest plays with a design she constructed from Little Bits, special toys that form circuits.
    Three guests pose behind their Little Bits creation, a red cartoony monster that moves.
    Two guests hold cocktails and smile
    Tin Repousse of a dragonfly made at an activity station in an exhibit.
    A volunteer in The Streets of Old Grand Rapids stands at the counter of the pharmacy, smiling in a while lab coat and vintage hat.
    The crowd on the second floor landing and galleria floor as viewed from the third floor. A small plane hangs from the ceiling above.
    Two guests look out at the Grand River from the Museum stairway through the window.
    Two guests pose with their Little Bits creation, a small wheeled vehicle that moves.
    A guest leans over an interactive topographic sandbox. A projector shines colorful lights onto the sand and detects high points and low points, shown in gradients.
    A volunteer in the lathe holds up a top he crafted.
    Guests stand near the raffle table, talking and laughing.
    Three guests pose with cocktails and smile.
    A drink with a marshmallow on a skewer in it on a table beside a rustic table centerpiece with glowing lanterns.
    Three guests pose and smile with cocktails below the whale skeleton.
    Two guests pose and smile with cocktails in front of a hanging plane.
    Two guests pose and smile with cocktails in front of the planetarium.
    A guest fills a plate with food from a charcuterie spread.
    Two volunteers make big expressive excited faces holding gift cards they won.
    Two guests hold up their goodies from the evening, smiling.