The museums and collections at New Mexico State University will hold a fundraising event called “Nightmare at the Museums” on Thursday, October 30. The event is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. at Kent Hall and Devasthali Hall on the NMSU campus.
According to Kelly Jenks, director of the University Museum, “This will be a really fun event, and it’s a great opportunity to show off some of the creepier things in our collections. Our students are having a fantastic time preparing and decorating for this event.”
The event will feature Halloween-themed activities for families. Attendees can see objects from the NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections, participate in bug crafts with the Arthropod Museum, view animals from the Vertebrate Museum, and take part in fossil-related activities at the Zuhl Museum. There will also be flashlight tours of anthropology exhibitions in the University Museum and corpse drawings in the University Art Museum.
Additional activities include a costume contest, trick-or-treat scavenger hunt, movie screening, haunted lab tour, photobooth, face painting, and scary stories for children.
Tickets cost $13 per person; children under eight years old can attend for free. Wristbands can be collected at the courtyard entrance to Kent Hall at 1280 East University Avenue.
