AMOS

October STEAM Lab - Strange Phenomena
2024-10-06 - 2024-10-27
Science is filled with unsolved mysteries- dare to try and solve them?

Creep into the STEAM Lab as we examine the strange phenomena behind the human brain.

Conduct experiments to see if you’re psychic, trick or treat your brain’s memory function, engineer your own goosebump generator, and collect data alongside other museum guests to test your own sense of perception.

STEAM Lab is open during regular AMOS operating hours pending any special closures. Facilitated experiences occur on Saturdays with AMOS Educators. For more information on STEAM Lab programming call our Front Desk at 828-254-7162.

HALLOSTEAM
2024-10-31 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Join us at AMOS for a community Halloween party!
This Halloween, there’s a mystery afoot in the museum…It seems as though one of our T. Currei’s bones has gone missing!
Use STEAM skills to catch the culprit. Decode puzzles, conduct experiments, explore never-before seen parts of the museum, and even get a chance to interrogate AMOS staff.
HALLOSTEAM is a donation-based event! Join us as we host some indoor fun for our community of all ages. Celebrate Halloween with activities, music, trick or treating, and take home community resources with you as part of our children’s supply drive.

AMOS Family Workshops: STEAM Advent Calendars
2024-12-01 10:00 - 13:30
Join us at AMOS for a special workshop to kick off the holiday season- STEAM Advent Calendars!
Makers of all ages can work together to create their own unique STEAM themed advent calendars full of curious treats and treasures provided by the museum. Design, decorate, and create your own countdown calendars that reflect your own STEAM interests!

What will yours look like? The periodic table? Dinosaurs? Space facts? Engineering experiments and art? Why not all of the above?!

Then swap them out with your friends and family and work with AMOS educators to stock them with treats and gifts that will keep you full of surprises for the rest of the month!

Ticket prices are $15 per person, and $7 for AMOS members. Each ticket includes an advent calendar (plus gifts and treats) and all day admission to the museum.

Purchase your tickets here!

FAQ’s
Can I leave my child unattended?
No. All children must have at least one caregiver present in the workshop.
Can I purchase a ticket just for my child/children?
Everyone in your group who is 3+ or otherwise participating in the workshop will need to purchase a ticket. Family workshops are specially designed to cultivate curiosity and play for all individuals. Families will work together and be guided by an AMOS facilitator, with each family member taking home a unique creation!
What’s the ratio of child/adult?
We ask for a 3:1 ratio at the museum at all times.

For any additional questions about our upcoming workshop, please contact edu@ashevillescience.org.

JOY TO THE WORLD
2024-12-01 10:00 - 2024-12-31 17:00
Join AMOS educators and guest presenters in the STEAM Lab as we experiment in joy and gratitude!
Take home a DIY “joy generator,” conduct research on which types of mammals experience joy and how, practice the science of smiling and laughter, and contribute to our joyfulness map!

Under the Stars 2024
2024-12-06 06:30 - 21:30 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
A fundraiser for AMOS and the communities in our orbit!

Join us for Under the Stars 2024, a fundraiser for AMOS and the communities in our orbit!
The Asheville Museum of Science invites you to join us for a night at the museum on December 6th, 2024 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm with a VIP reception from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. This year’s Under the Stars fundraiser, rescheduled from October, will include an expanded purpose, with proceeds supporting both our programs and critical community needs. We look forward to hosting you at the museum for a night of coming together and imagining how we can transform this space together.
Get Tickets!
Non-member tickets: $70
Member tickets: $65
VIP tickets: $80
Featuring delicious dinner by Sage and Spice Catering

Following Hurricane Helene, our entire WNC community has been on a journey of resilience and recovery. Thanks to generous hearts, we’ve seen incredible responses to immediate needs around our region.
AMOS depends on the funds raised at this event to fund our education programs and keep the museum accessible to all. After the devastating impacts of Helene both AMOS’s and our communities’ needs have grown. As we all focus on healing, AMOS, too, is moving forward with a renewed commitment to sparking curiosity in kids and youth and fostering exploration across our community and the need is great.
The Asheville Museum of Science could not serve our mission of expanding access to STEM education all across WNC without the generous support of a caring and passionate community. We invite you to join our growing network of science supporters by sponsoring Under the Stars 2024!
Learn more about sponsoring Under the Stars 2024 here!
In-Kind Donation Form
AMOS is excited to recognize our community partners and sponsors for this special event – Your support is WRITTEN IN THE STARS!

Winter Day Camp
2024-12-23 09:00 - 15:30 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Warm up the kids this winter with 5 science-filled days of camp!
Packed with field trips, experiments, crafts, and maybe some cocoa, your kiddos will discover that science is everywhere. Camp is designed for kids grades 1-5.
Available days are Dec 23, Dec 27, Dec 30, Jan 2, and Jan 3 from 9am until 3:30pm with optional aftercare available until 5pm. Cost per day per person is $85 with an addition $15 per person per day for optional aftercare. Space is limited so sign up today!

Winter Day Camps
2024-12-27 09:00 - 15:30, 2024-12-30 09:00 - 15:30, 2025-01-02 09:00 - 15:30, 2025-01-03 09:00 - 15:30 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States

HIDE AND SEEK
2025-01-01 10:00 - 2025-01-31 17:00
How do animals play hide and seek?
Experiment with camouflage, investigate biomimicry, and learn from animals to design and develop tools to help you attract or repel attention!
Come up with a new design for a “scarecrow”, make a fascinator or wearable lure, construct your own “stay away” badge, and play animal-themed puzzles and games with your friends and family.

PUSH AND PULL
2025-02-01 10:00 - 2025-02-28 17:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Explore laws of motion, forces, and attraction through fun experiments and hands-on challenges.
Think you have what it takes to disrupt gravity? Can you work together with friends on a collaborative pulley challenge? Invent a new “push and pull” machine, or win a thumb war using the principles of hydraulics?
STEAM Lab is open during regular AMOS operating hours pending any special closures. Facilitated experiences occur on Saturdays with AMOS Educators. For more information on STEAM Lab programming call our Front Desk at 828-254-7162.

IF/THEN: Highlighting Black Women in STEAM
2025-02-01 10:00 - 2025-02-28 17:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Come celebrate Black History Month with our If/Then: Women in STEM Exhibit!
Join AMOS Educators on Sundays at 2pm in February for hands-on activities exploring the careers of Black STEAM leaders. Put your citizen scientist skills to the test with If/Then scavenger hunts to earn STEAM badges, and catch a special star show and Q&A with AMOS’ own astronomer Keyana Thomas!
These facilitated experiences will happen every Sunday in February at 2pm and are included in the price of your admission. For more information on our If/Then: Women in STEM exhibit click here.

AMOS After Hours: Attraction and Reaction in the Natural World
2025-02-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Looking for something STEAM-y to do this Valentine’s?
Join AMOS After Hours, an adults-only night with fun hands-on experiences and activities exploring the science of attraction and reaction!

Take a guided peek into our gem and mineral collection and uncover how a little heat and a lot of patience form some of our most beautiful specimens.

Put your chemistry to the test with chemical reaction matchmaking- will your love be explosive or will it fizzle out?

Embark on a forces of attraction quest for special prizes, or just grab a drink and get cozy for a planetary show in our upcoming gallery space.

To purchase tickets click here. This is a 21+ event. Price of admission ticket includes one free drink.

Dinner Under Dinos: A Parent's Night Out
2025-02-21 17:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-22 17:30 - 21:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Who says adults get to have all the fun during restaurant week?
Parents- enjoy a night out downtown while treating your kid to a special after-hours event just for them- dinner and a movie at AMOS!
This fun-filled night includes pizza from a local vendor, free exhibit play, custom scavenger hunts for special prizes, and a kid-friendly movie to chill out. Parent drop-off begins at 5:30 with a pickup time between 8:30 and 9pm… Plenty of time to enjoy a meal at any of Asheville’s participating downtown restaurants!
Dinner Under Dinos is for children 4+. All children must be able to go to the bathroom independently. Children may also bring a water bottle, snacks or an alternative meal if they are gluten or dairy free. For more info contact kthomas@ashevillescience.org.
Click here to purchase your tickets today.

The Science of Sports
2025-02-26 10:00 - 2025-03-31 17:00
Join AMOS Educators as we investigate the scientific principles behind our favorite sports. What does it take to make the perfect bank shot in basketball? How can investigating the material science behind balls make us better players? How can
probability and math help us better our chances of scoring? And how does sports medicine help players in their recovery?

Along the way we’ll also be celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting the women athletes, coaches, and sports scientists!
STEAM Lab is open during regular AMOS operating hours pending any special closures. Facilitated experiences occur on Saturdays with AMOS Educators. For more information on STEAM Lab programming call our Front Desk at 828-254-7162.

STEAM Lab: Basketball Science
2025-03-06 10:00 - 2025-03-10 17:00
Join AMOS Educators in the STEAM Lab March 6th-10th as we celebrate SoCon and explore the science of basketball!

What does it take to make the perfect shot? How can investigating material science make us better players? Can dissecting a basketball improve our dribble?

STEAM Lab is open during regular AMOS operating hours pending any special closures. Facilitated experiences occur on Saturdays with AMOS Educators. For more information on STEAM Lab programming call our Front Desk at 828-254-7162.

Ecology Explorers
2025-04-01 - 2025-04-30
Explore more about the world around you!
Conduct experiments and community science projects that put you at the center of conserving Southern Appalachia’s ecosystem. Take a close look at Western North Carolina’s creatures and plants, make your own tools and equipment to create community science projects at home, and make observations in living experiments provided by AMOS staff.

Spring Break Camp: S.T.E.A.M Week
2025-04-14 09:00 - 2025-04-18 15:30 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Spring into STEAM!
Join AMOS for our Spring Break camp! Participate in STEAM-based activities games, try your hand at art projects that incorporate science and math, and experiment with new tools and materials in our tinkering challenges!
Hope to see you there!
Purchase your tickets here!
Got a question? Feel free to email us at: edu@ashevillescience.org or learn more about our camps at https://ashevillescience.org/learn/

Earth Day at AMOS
2025-04-26

Dinner Under Dinos
2025-05-30 17:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-31 17:30 - 20:30 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Dinner Under Dinos is back by popular demand!
Parents- enjoy a night out downtown while treating your kid to a special after-hours event just for them- dinner and a movie at AMOS!
This fun-filled night includes pizza from a local vendor, free exhibit play, custom scavenger hunts for special prizes, and a kid-friendly movie to chill out. Parent drop-off begins at 5:30 with a pickup time between 8:30-9:30, plenty of time to enjoy a meal at any of Asheville’s downtown restaurants.
Dinner Under Dinos is for children 5+. All children must be able to go to the bathroom independently. Children may also bring a water bottle, snacks or an alternative meal. For more info contact edu@ashevillescience.org.
Includes:
3 Hours of Museum Play (a G/PG movie will also be playing in the classroom)
Cheese Pizza, H20
Date: May 30th and 31st
Time: 5:30pm-9:00pm (Child(ren) must be picked up no later than 9pm; fees may apply if after 9pm)
Age: 5+ (* All children must be potty-trained to participate.)

Fees:
Per Child = $35.00
Additional Sibling = $30.00

STEAM Lab: Making Do
2025-06-01 08:00 - 2025-08-01 17:00
This summer the STEAM Lab is chock full of projects, experiments, and open-ended activities that challenge us to make and do with recyclables, everyday familiar objects, and what we would normally consider “scrap” materials.
Explore how scientists, engineers, artists, and everyday community members reduce, reuse, and “upcycle” in their work and daily lives. Help us make a community tapestry with binary code, carefully construct your own scale model, invent a new toy, take risks, or even turn the STEAM Lab into a recycling center!
These activities will run all month long and will get better and more ambitious as kids and adults work together to build miraculous things!
STEAM Lab is open during regular AMOS operating hours pending any special closures. Facilitated experiences occur on Saturdays with AMOS Educators. For more information on STEAM Lab programming call our Front Desk at 828-254-7162.

AMOS After Hours: Our Changing World
2025-06-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
Join us for After Hours, our 21+ night at the Museum.

This month’s theme is Our Changing World.
Explore how scientists and communities work together for climate resilient futures in our new exhibit Our Changing World. Hear stories from scientists and community members who used a wide variety of skills and problem solving during and after Helene. Make a climate indicator quilt, or explore real-time environment data on our 360 interactive globe.
Other activities include:
Trivia with Discount Tobacco Tattoo
8pm-9pm
It’s time for Climate trivia with Meg! How well do you know the changing world around us? Winner gets a free tattoo from Discount Tobacco at Slouch Tattoo.
Soil Sleuths
Get dirty with AMOS Educators in Soil Sleuths- a soil experiment game with tips for your own backyard!
Geologic Timeline Scavenger Hunt
Play games and do art activities that have you moving through Earth’s Eons, Epochs, and Ages! Compete in a Geologic Time Scavenger Hunt to take home a piece of the “Anthropocene.”
Get Active!
Meet groups who are actively working to create sustainable futures through direct action and community science. Learn about firefly conservation with THEM in STEM, explore the flora and fauna hiding in plain sight with Save the UNCA Woods, and get up to speed on the i-26 connector projector with the Citizen’s Coalition.
Touch a Meteorite
Meet the astronomers at PARI (Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute) and get up close to the formation of the universe itself! Touch a meteorite, take a guided tour of our gem collection, and find out about the perfect conditions for forming Earth (and you)!

This is a 21+ event; ID is required. Price of admission ticket includes one free drink.

To purchase tickets click here!

Summer Science Camp - Week 1
2025-06-16 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-17 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-18 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-19 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-20 09:00 - 15:00 | Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801, United States
The discovery that happens at AMOS camps makes concrete, measurable contributions to student success, not only in the classroom environment, but in broader measures of youth development, maturity, and career success. Each week is filled with expert-designed STEAM programming to contribute to our campers’ interest in and understanding of concepts ranging from exploring our natural world.
Week 1 – Dino Digs – K-2
Welcome to Dinosaurs for our K-2 explorers! Get ready for a prehistoric adventure as campers dive into the world of dinosaurs. From dino discoveries and fossil fun to roaring adventures and creative crafts, each day is a journey through time. Campers explore dino habitats, unearth fossils, and even become paleontologists. It’s a week of dino-mite learning and roaring excitement!
>>>Register for Week 1 Grades K-2>>>
Week 1 – Time Travelers – 3-5
Welcome to Engineering Time Travelers for our 3rd – 5th grade explorers! Embark on an engineering journey from simple machines to time machines and every automation in between. Campers explore the magic of gears, levers, and pulleys, design their own inventions, and even create a mini time machine. It’s a week of hands-on fun, creative engineering, and time-traveling adventures!
>>>Register for Week 1 Grades 3-5>>>
>>>Register for Week 1 After Care>>>
