FRIDAY’S SPECIAL AT THE MUSEUM
Inaugural $5 First Friday at NM Museum of Natural History & Science is this week
NM Museum of Natural History & Science will host inaugural entertainment event
An eclectic night of music, entertainment and fun for kids and adults is planned at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science’s inaugural $5 First Friday event this Friday.
The 5:30-9 p.m. program includes string music, handson activities, and Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate.
“We have these special admission nights to allow more New Mexicans, regardless of their situation, to be able to experience the vast resources this Museum offers,” museum director Margie Marino said in a statement announcing July’s special admission nights.
“Everything in the museum is open on our Five Dollar first Friday ... including our new traveling exhibition Wild Music: Songs & Sounds of Life.”
There will be an area and supplies for visitors to make their own musical instruments, and then Albuquerque’s reigning Poet Laureate Manuel Gonzalez will conduct the Bosque Symphony with instruments hand-made by these musicians.
Additional musical entertainment will be provided by Mad About Music, the advanced repertoire class and touring group for the UNM String Lab School.
The DynaTheatre will be showing its newest film, Space Next, for an additional $5 at 6 p.m.
The planetarium will present Fractal Friday at the usual times of 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. with the normal admission for adults $10, seniors $7 and children (3-12) $5. The observatory will be open, weather permitting, starting at 8 p.m.
Next Wednesday, the museum is also hosting a special $1 admission night from 5-8 p.m. to see Wild Music: Songs & Sounds of Life.