The audience helps the performer act out the tale, as we use the events in the story to explore several exciting science concepts such as air pressure, energy transfer, and more! Volunteers help conduct each experiment and the whole audience gets involved in changing variables, making predictions, and comparing results! We’ll even bring some experiments […]
How is a beak’s shape related to its function? Can you tie your shoes without your thumbs? We’ll use our greatest survival tool—our brains—to discover how adaptations help us survive and make us who we are. We'll also spend time up close and personal with some of Explora’s educational animals. For ages 9-12. Registration is […]
Join us in crafting our own juggle balls, perfect for the novice juggler. We’ll provide all the materials you need. Registration is required and limited to 10 participants. Intended for teens, ages 13-17,
Join us to create your own petroglyphs and learn more about them! Tween participants will make their own petroglyphs using air-dry clay, sculpting tools, and paint. For ages 9-12. Limited to 15 participants. This program is funded by the Friends of the Public Library. Register online.
Zora Bennett leads a team of skilled operatives to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park. Their mission is to secure genetic material from dinosaurs whose DNA can provide life-saving benefits to mankind. As the top-secret expedition becomes more and more risky, they soon make a sinister, […]
Come build a dancing, doodling robot! Participants will create a unique vibrating robot to make spiral graphic art. Take your one-of-a-kind artwork home to display or give as a gift! Design, build and iterate using technology engineering and art with Albuquerque Public Library STEAM programs. For tweens ages 9 to 12. Registration required. Limited to […]
Join Summer Crafternoon for a relaxing rock painting activity. Bring a friend and decorate a rock for your home, garden, or the museum. Teens ages 13–19 welcome.
High‑energy particle accelerators have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of matter and the universe. From the earliest “atom smashers” to today’s sophisticated machines capable of probing the smallest subatomic scales, accelerator […]
We are excited to return for a second year to Winrock Park, with free concerts on Fridays in May, June and July. Last year established Winrock as THE place to […]
Free movies under the stars are back in Albuquerque. Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque are bringing back the annual “Movies in the Park” series with free outdoor movie […]
Join staff and volunteer experts and explore various Open Space properties and experience all that your public lands have to offer. Join the Open Space Division on a birding adventure! […]
Shop thousands of books at our Twice Read Tales book sales! Join us on the first Friday and Saturday of every other month to find the perfect gift for yourself […]
🍉💥 CAN YOU GO ALL FACE?! 💥🍉 The challenge is ON at the ABQ FOOD PARK! Join us Saturday, June 6th from 9 AM - 5 PM for the first-ever […]
Join Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument and the Friends of Mountainair Animal Shelter (FOMAS) for another BARK in the Park Hike! Just like our Junior and Senior Ranger activities, the BARK Ranger program lets your furry friends join the adventure and earn their ranger status too! We're excited to welcome our partners from FOMAS as they share information about […]
City Councilor Renée Grout is proud to announce the return of the Fifth Annual “Touch-a-Truck” event. This free, family-friendly gathering invites children and adults to get up-close and personal with […]
