Join the Portsmouth Museums as we celebrate a weekend of fun, fall activities. The Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center, the Children’s Museum of Virginia, and the Lightship Portsmouth will be celebrating a myriad of experiences this Halloween season. Families, children and adults can all enjoy programming that includes dramatic reenactments, family-friendly scavenger hunts, horror storytelling, monster mashes, and more!

Halloweekend Schedule:

The Yellow Wallpaper

Friday, October 18, 7 pm
Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center’s Art Annex | 420 High Street

Presented by the Core Theater. The internationally acclaimed Core Theater will present an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper, through music and choreography. Enjoy refreshments as you follow the descent into madness of a woman confined to her room by her doctor husband. Tickets can be purchased in advance on line at portsmouthartcenter.com or in person at the Art Centeror the Children’s Museum of Virginia.

For ages 13 and older.

Museum Madness

Saturday October 19, 10 am-5 pm
Children’s Museum of Virginia | 221 High Street

Spooktacular activities include black like art, face painting, photo booth snapshots and Mad Scientist experiments. Bat World Hampton Roads will have a special presentation and families can compete a museum passport during the visit. Costumes are encourage for this event.

“Sea and be Seen”

Saturday, October 19, 10 am – 5 pm.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum | 2 High Street

Bring your camera and enjoy several photographic backdrops for you and your family to take Halloween pictures! Kids can try on a museum costume or wear your own. Picture yourself in a World War I camp, a leafy forest or the deck of a sailing ship.

For all ages!

Fright Flight

October 19, 7 pm
Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center Art Center’s Art Annex | 420 High Street

Join five horror story authors as they read original stories with a hint of drama. Our readers include some internationally published and award-winning authors. The event is free. Light refreshments will be served.

For an adult audience.

The Mystery of the Lightship

Sunday, October 20, 10 am – 5 pm
Lightship Portsmouth Museum | London & Water Streets

Things have been going bump in the night at the Lightship Portsmouth. What is it? Follow the clues around the main interior deck of this “floating lighthouse” to see if you can solve the mystery.

Great for families with children seven and younger.