Monster Mash
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 10/26/2024
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Join the Academy Museum for a monstrously good time. The museum will host a fun-filled day of special effects makeup demonstrations, ghostly tours, special monster appearances, magic lantern shows, and activities.
SCHEDULE
11am–2pm | Community Monster Mural
Location: Walt Disney Company Piazza
Come and color in classic creatures by adding colors and drawings on a collaborative mural.
General admission ticket not required.
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10:30am–Noon and 1–2:30pm | Special Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
Join us for a scary good time with special effects transformations by costume designer Isis Mussenden, two-time Academy Award®-nominated Ken Diaz, and Academy Award®-winner Yolanda Toussieng.
General admission ticket not required.
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1–5pm | Monster Meet and Greet
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
Come meet Universal Studios classic movie monsters, including the Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and Dracula for a special photo opportunity. It’ll be a scream.
General admission ticket not required.
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1pm, 2pm, and 3pm | Monsters and Heroes Encounters Tours
Location: L3
No need to be afraid of the dark on these family-friendly Monsters and Heroes Encounters tours. Creep through Stories of Cinema 3 and explore movie heroes and monsters—and those in-between—on a 30-minute guided tour of the Encounters and Effects galleries. Sightings of supernatural beings and superheroes could be around every corner.
Tours will meet on Level 3 at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. Tours have limited space and are first-come, first-served. Please arrive at the tour meeting place on Level 3 up to 10 minutes before the start of the tour to secure your spot.
Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket.
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2:30–5:30pm | Magic Lantern Show
Location: Shirley Temple Education Studio
Join experimental animator Melissa Ferrari and experience her wonderous take on the classic tradition of magic lantern phantasmagoria shows. Melissa incorporates a variety of handmade and antique slides that depict where science and the supernatural meet. Between performances, you can even design your own slide to take home.
Magic Lantern programming:
2:30pm | performance
3:30pm–4:30pm | drop-in activity
5pm | performance
Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket.
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