Calendar

May 2025

Festival

Mead Film Festival: Friday

The festival weekend will begin with Seeds, a portrait of Black farmers in Georgia fighting for their land's future.

Friday, May 2, 2025
7 pm

Festival

Mead Film Festival: Saturday

The second day of the Margaret Mead Film Festival. 

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Festival

Emerging Visual Anthropologist Showcase

The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents exciting new ethnographic documentaries from emerging visual anthropologists.

Sunday, May 4, 2025
11 am–1:30 pm

Festival

Mead Film Festival: Sunday

The last day of the 2025 Margaret Mead Film Festival. 

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Festival

Humans and Nature in the Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives

Join Vera Solovyeva and Maidi Eira Andersson as they share Indigenous perspectives on kinship with nature. 

Sunday, May 4
6 pm

Member Program

Member Evening Hours

Off-hours access for Members and their guests.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 and June 24, 2025
6–8 pm

Science Socials

SciCafe: Sea Slugs, Pirates of the Ocean

Discover how sea slugs steal toxins to survive, rewriting the rules of survival in their underwater world. 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7 pm

Educator Professional Learning

Educators’ Evening: Spitzer Hall of Human Origins

Join us for an in-person special evening for educators celebrating our recently updated Hall of Human Origins.

Friday, May 9, 2025
4-7 pm

Family Program

Expedition AI: Demystify Artificial Intelligence

AI seems to be everywhere. But what is it, and how can we make sense of this rapidly evolving technology?

Saturday, May 10, 2025
2-4 pm

Lectures and Talks

Data in the Age of AI: In Conversation with Sean Decatur and Alondra Nelson

Museum President Sean Decatur and Alondra Nelson will discuss the ethics of AI in a fast-changing world.

Monday, May 12, 2025
7 pm

Courses and Workshops

OrigamiUSA: May Special Folding Fun Session

OrigamiUSA offers morning and afternoon origami-making sessions at the Museum.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Planetarium Program

Frontiers Lecture: Low-Mass Galaxies

Join us to explore how two satellite galaxies are reshaping the Milky Way, and leaving lasting cosmic imprints.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
7 pm