Join us for Accessibility Mornings on Saturday, August 24, from 8am to 9:30am. With a variety of high-sensory activities and designated sensory-break zones, our Accessibility Mornings give children with disabilities and their families the opportunity to explore the Museum with comfort and safety before the Museum opens to the general public. Our August Accessibility Mornings event is free thanks to Behavior Frontiers. Space is limited and registration is required. Adult must be present with child. Limited parking available for free in Museum garage before 9am.

If you like solving puzzles and riddles with your friends, family, or coworkers, then Escape The Nat: Botanic Panic is the adventure you’ve been looking for. Billed as one of the first escape rooms in a U.S. museum, Botanic Panic puts you at the helm of a natural history mystery requiring you to use your wits to comb through clue-filled museum archives and decipher conundrums to save the world from a deadly viral outbreak.

Marnie Weber emerged in Los Angeles’s punk music and performance art scene of the 1980s, and has since become known for installations in which sculpture, film, music, costuming, and collage come together to form whole, fantastical worlds. Weber’s homespun, haunted-house aesthetic evokes the gothic side of American folkloric traditions, imparting a sense of old-time magic to narratives of lost innocence. Her dream-like films feature a cast of motley characters, including animals, monsters, trees, and clowns, with supernatural female protagonists at their centers. In the artist’s macabre fairy tales, these figures navigate uncanny landscapes on journeys of transformation.

Join Colonel Stephen “Fozzy” Acosta, commanding officer of VMFAT 101, as he shares some of his missions and experiences as an F/A- 18 “Hornet ” pilot.  Kids and adults will enjoy his demonstration some of the equipment USMC pilots use and his explanation of the unique capabilities of the Hornet.   

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum has 31 historical aircraft on display as well as hundreds of artifacts from the earliest days of aviation to the present day. Open Cockpit Days are held on select weekends from May-September. Check the website at www.flyingleathernecks.org for more information.

Free admission and parking.