Bell Museum After Hours: Soundwaves

Activities free with gallery admission• Planetarium ticket fees apply

Enjoy an evening at the museum! Curate your night from a host of activities, including sketching in the galleries, art-making activities, a show in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium, and stargazing on the Ruth and John Huss Observation Deck (weather permitting).

Sketching theme: Draw from a collection of critters that are known for making sounds like frogs, birds and cicadas.

Hands-on activity: Play with toys that focus on sounds and waves in one of our classrooms.

Diorama Tours

Tours begin in Horizon Hall at 6:15 and 7:15 pm.

Dive deep into the dioramas with Daniel Stanton, interim curator of lichens and bryophytes. Learn about how our native plants defend themselves against predators, amazing adaptations, and Minnesota’s biodiversity—and threats to it.

Special Guest

Environmental Futurisms: Sound, Technology, and Imagination
Michael Wilson, a 2019-20 showcase artist, records sounds in nature and mixes them in his work. His award-winning 2017 audio work, Elcrys, imagines a future in which elk have not been seen in nearly a generation, and scientists attempt to lure the last known herd of elk down out of the mountains with cybernetic replications of elk calls. Here sound is central to humanity’s last, desperate effort to make contact with a species at the edge.

At After Hours: Soundwaves, Wilson will have his equipment set up in Horizon Hall to help guests arrange and sculpt natural sound, using sound design tools to manifest possible future environmental realities. Add effects to different sounds, change their pitches, and more, to help create a “Bell composition” with your audio experiments.

Planetarium

6 & 7 pm: Sounds From Space

Click here for tickets and availability.

Activities free with gallery admission. Planetarium ticket fees apply.

Advance tickets for planetarium shows are available up to three weeks ahead of time via the link above. If you are a current Bell member, please log in first, to receive your discounted tickets.

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Start date
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 5 p.m.
End date
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, 8:30 p.m.
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