Upcoming Events

Join us at The Discovery Museum for our annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This will be a FREE admission day, with volunteers and sponsorship by Pullman & Comley LLC and Aquarion Water Company. This year's theme is "See yourself, be yourself." Our goal is to give the children in our community the face-to-face opportunity to see themselves in STEM jobs, and to chat with people doing these incredibly important jobs, right here in our community. Activities will…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission - $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Cash bar with beer, wine, and soda by Fortuna's Catering Co. Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

Celebrate Presidents' Day at the Discovery Museum with our annual Maker Day. This special event will feature fun, hands-on activities designed by our educators to stimulate young minds and get them building, testing, and seeing their ideas in action. There will be a $1 discount on all admissions on Maker Day, courtesy of Specialty Cable Corporation. Special activities will include: - Coding room, sponsored by Code Ninjas: code hearts and snowflakes for 3D printing, and take home a 3D-printed keychain -…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

Learn about the science of flight and space travel on Aerospace Day at the Discovery Museum. All visitors will enjoy half price admission, thanks to the generosity of Sikorsky and Specialty Cable Corporation. Special activities include: - Wind tunnel and air foil making, sponsored by HeliVentures - Magnus flyers, sponsored by Sikorsky's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers - Balloon rockets, sponsored by the University of Bridgeport - Parachutes - Foldable aircrafts and test site Live science demonstrations…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

The Discovery Museum will present a community conversation series that will take place at the museum beginning in March 2019. The focus of the series will be on topics related to health and wellness. The four monthly talks will feature local experts facilitating discussions, and will include time for networking, presentation, and group discussion. The first conversation topic is: The Expanding World of Consumer Genomics, with Dr. Charlie Wray (The Jackson Laboratory), Dr. Camelia Lawrence (Hartford Healthcare). Small bites and drinks…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

The Discovery Exploration and Astronomical Research Program is looking for brave astronauts who are willing to try and escape our spacecraft before an oncoming CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hits.  In this escape room, 1-8 participants will attempt several puzzles to locate specific scientific research and coordinates before the time runs out. No prior space knowledge needed. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your booking for mission briefing! For more information, call 203-372-3521 x114 or email tropp@discoverymuseum.org.

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

The Discovery Exploration and Astronomical Research Program is looking for brave astronauts who are willing to try and escape our spacecraft before an oncoming CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hits.  In this escape room, 1-8 participants will attempt several puzzles to locate specific scientific research and coordinates before the time runs out. No prior space knowledge needed. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your booking for mission briefing! For more information, call 203-372-3521 x114 or email tropp@discoverymuseum.org.

Discovery Museum is participating in Barnum Festival 2019 with our Special Day for Special Needs. We are happy to offer FREE admission for visitors with special needs and their caregivers. Activities include: - Full volume and no volume planetarium shows - Science on a Sphere shows - Visually stimulating live science demos - Sensory activities Many thanks to our sponsor: Many thanks to our community partner:  

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! For an additional $5, enjoy a Laser Light Spectacular to some classic Jam Band music. The Vibes are still alive at Discovery! We’ve got the Dark Side…

The Discovery Exploration and Astronomical Research Program is looking for brave astronauts who are willing to try and escape our spacecraft before an oncoming CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hits.  In this escape room, 1-8 participants will attempt several puzzles to locate specific scientific research and coordinates before the time runs out. No prior space knowledge needed. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your booking for mission briefing! For more information, call 203-372-3521 x114 or email tropp@discoverymuseum.org.

California-based artist J.J. L'Heureux will be at the Discovery Museum to give a talk on her work photographing the animals and landscapes of Antarctica. Artist and naturalist J.J. L'Heureux has traveled to Antarctica seventeen times since 2000, documenting the landscape, the creatures that live there, and attempts at human habitation. Ms. L'Heureux would like these photos to connect the viewer to a distant region of the world they might never have the opportunity to visit. Her inspiration comes from her…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! Want a private room? We’ve got you covered! Whether you want a room to play board games uninterrupted, work on your cosplay in private or set…

Enjoy FREE admission at our annual Space Day, thanks to a grant from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium. Special activities include: - Build a straw rocket - Living and working on Mars - Building your Mars habitat, with augmented reality (AR) apps - Exploring the planet and working on Mars, with Ozobots - Pocket solar system - Build a 3D constellation Throughout the day, we will offer planetarium shows, demonstrations on Science on a Sphere, and live science demonstrations. We also plan to…

Celebrate the opening of Matt Laufer's exhibit of selected paintings and poems. A Connecticut native, Matt Laufer, has been involved with the arts since he was a teenager. He is a self-taught artist who paints wildlife, nature scenes, and abstract art. A motor vehicle accident left Matt paralyzed from the chest and shoulders down. The urge to create was so great that he went about finding a new way to create his art since he could no longer use his…

The Discovery Museum will present a community conversation series that will take place at the museum beginning in March 2019. The focus of the series will be on topics related to health and wellness. The four monthly talks will feature local experts facilitating discussions, and will include time for networking, presentation, and group discussion. The second conversation topic is: Personal Genetics and Addiction, with Dr. Vivek Kumar (The Jackson Laboratory) and Moira Rizzo (Recovery Network of Programs, Inc). Small bites…

Hours: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for persons 18+ General Admission – $5.00 per person FREE ADMISSION FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS! Includes use of Dining Court for board games, card games, poker, role playing games, and cosplay. Bring your dinner, or order in and add your favorite group of friends, and grab a table and enjoy! Want a private room? We’ve got you covered! Whether you want a room to play board games uninterrupted, work on your cosplay in private or set…

Looking for a great way to spend a week off from school? Join the Discovery Museum for some of the coolest mad science around! We’ll experiment with a variety of STEM topics including chemistry,  physics, robotics, and more! Open to students in grades K-6. Programs run from 9:00am-3:30pm with extended day options that run from 8:30am-9:00am and 3:30pm-5:30pm. *Register by April 1, 2019* For more information, email tropp@discoverymuseum.org or call 203-372-3521 x114.