Calendar of Events

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.

Join us in The Shop and create your last-minute Halloween props and decorations. In this activity, visitors can put the finishing touches on their Halloween celebrations! Using a variety of available tools and materials, visitors can create spooky props, costume accessories, decorations, or last-minute additions to their Halloween look. Whether you need a horn for your monster mask, creepy decoration, or imaginative prop, creativity is the only limit. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous…

Get ready for a hauntingly good time at The Discovery’s 15th annual Halloween Trick or Treat. Visit the museum in costume and trick-or-treat from gallery to gallery. There’ll be spooky decorations and delicious treats for all the friendly or scary ghosts, ghouls and goblins who dare to attend. Please bring your own bag for this event. A note about costumes: For the safety of all visitors, costumes with masks or weapons of any kind are not allowed. Costumes with face…

Join us in The Shop and create your last-minute Halloween props and decorations. In this activity, visitors can put the finishing touches on their Halloween celebrations! Using a variety of available tools and materials, visitors can create spooky props, costume accessories, decorations, or last-minute additions to their Halloween look. Whether you need a horn for your monster mask, creepy decoration, or imaginative prop, creativity is the only limit. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous…

Join us in The Shop and create your last-minute Halloween props and decorations. In this activity, visitors can put the finishing touches on their Halloween celebrations! Using a variety of available tools and materials, visitors can create spooky props, costume accessories, decorations, or last-minute additions to their Halloween look. Whether you need a horn for your monster mask, creepy decoration, or imaginative prop, creativity is the only limit. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous…

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.

Join us in The Shop and create your last-minute Halloween props and decorations. In this activity, visitors can put the finishing touches on their Halloween celebrations! Using a variety of available tools and materials, visitors can create spooky props, costume accessories, decorations, or last-minute additions to their Halloween look. Whether you need a horn for your monster mask, creepy decoration, or imaginative prop, creativity is the only limit. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous…

Join us in The Shop and create your last-minute Halloween props and decorations. In this activity, visitors can put the finishing touches on their Halloween celebrations! Using a variety of available tools and materials, visitors can create spooky props, costume accessories, decorations, or last-minute additions to their Halloween look. Whether you need a horn for your monster mask, creepy decoration, or imaginative prop, creativity is the only limit. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous…

In The Shop, hands-on gets serious. During Open Build, take your pick from a variety of materials and use real tools to design and build nearly anything you can imagine. Best of all, what you create is yours to keep! Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.

In The Shop, visitors can anticipate a creative and educational experience in cartography. They will construct 2D or 3D maps that represent terrain elevations, using a variety of materials. Through this activity, participants will learn about topography, scale, and contour lines. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

In The Shop, visitors can anticipate a creative and educational experience in cartography. They will construct 2D or 3D maps that represent terrain elevations, using a variety of materials. Through this activity, participants will learn about topography, scale, and contour lines. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

In The Shop, visitors can anticipate a creative and educational experience in cartography. They will construct 2D or 3D maps that represent terrain elevations, using a variety of materials. Through this activity, participants will learn about topography, scale, and contour lines. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.

In The Shop, visitors can anticipate a creative and educational experience in cartography. They will construct 2D or 3D maps that represent terrain elevations, using a variety of materials. Through this activity, participants will learn about topography, scale, and contour lines. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Join The Discovery and partner organizations from throughout our region to celebrate The Discovery’s Recycle Round-up. We’re uniting our community to explore how recycling helps us reduce waste, save energy, and conserve precious resources. Learn, get inspired, and take action to help keep materials out of landfills, save natural resources, and reduce pollution. Find out how we can all pitch in to recycle more and waste less!

In The Shop, visitors can anticipate a creative and educational experience in cartography. They will construct 2D or 3D maps that represent terrain elevations, using a variety of materials. Through this activity, participants will learn about topography, scale, and contour lines. Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.

Can a turkey really fly? Find out in The Shop when you build a catapult-style turkey launcher using available tools and materials. Design, built, test and repeat—how far can your tiny turkey fly? Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Explore the beauty and importance of dark skies and what they reveal about distant galaxies at Science Distilled. Join us to learn from a photographer who captures stunning images of the cosmos, an astrophysicist who studies the origins and evolution of distant galaxies, and a planetarium director poised to introduce cutting-edge technology designed to bring the wonders of space right here to Northern Nevada. Location: The Discovery, 490 S. Center Street, Downtown Reno Times: Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation begins…

With the demand for healthcare on the rise, and women making up less than 40% of active physicians in the U.S., the need for young, aspiring female physicians and researchers couldn’t be greater! In this hands-on lab lead by experts in the healthcare and biomedical fields, girls will explore aspects of medicine and how they contribute to a healthier population. Use a marshmallow to check your pulse, concoct blood slime, use UV light to identify germs, understand how CPR works,…

Can a turkey really fly? Find out in The Shop when you build a catapult-style turkey launcher using available tools and materials. Design, built, test and repeat—how far can your tiny turkey fly? Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Can a turkey really fly? Find out in The Shop when you build a catapult-style turkey launcher using available tools and materials. Design, built, test and repeat—how far can your tiny turkey fly? Please note: The Shop offers access to real tools and materials that can be dangerous if used improperly. Parents are encouraged to help young tinkerers use the tools and materials safely in this space.

Join us here at The Discovery every Wednesday for a special morning just for young learners ages 5 and under. Hear stories, climb the clouds, create art, and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone! Please note: Admission during Small Wonder Wednesday is limited to families with children ages 5 and under only. Visitors with children age 6 and older can visit the museum beginning at 10:00am.