Experience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events.
Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic—from music to sex to electricity—but all include a cash bar and film screenings, plus an opportunity to play with our hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Join us and mingle with inventive scientists, artists, musicians, programmers, and designers. Enjoy live performances, provocative films, interesting music, cutting-edge technology, unexpected extravaganzas, and more, depending on each evening's lineup. Leave the kids at home and meet friends or take a date. Where else can you find an intellectually stimulating playground for adults—with free parking?
FIRST THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH, 6:00 P.M.–10:00 P.M.
The museum will be closed from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. If you arrive before 5:00 p.m., please be sure to keep your admissions sticker and receipt for re-entry to the museum at 6:00 p.m.
After Dark features adult-oriented events: Guests must be at least 18 to attend.
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Vinyl
What happened to your stacks of wax? From handmade record players to DJs scratching new sounds, explore unique uses of an old-school material. Learn how experimental physicist Carl Haber recovers the lost sounds of records made from wax, shellac, and other fragile materials. Encounter original instruments made by Bay Area artists Walter Kitundu and Sung Kim, and take part in Hiss Pop*, an interactive adventure set in the days when vinyl was king and the corner record store beckoned as a musical Shangri-La.
*Designed by Sara Thacher and Ken Eklund and implemented by Onomy Labs.