10:00am-2:00pm
You are invited to the DAR Museum’s ghoulish celebration! Costumes are optional but fun is required at this old-fashioned, family-friendly Halloween party. Try out the treats, tricks, and games enjoyed during a Victorian Halloween.
Free admission! Get your free tickets
"Are you afraid to meet a ghost?
Of goblin friends dare you make boast?
What is the thing that scares you most?
Come join us Hallowe'en!
We name the hour as ten o'clock.
Admission comes if you but knock.
We hope to entertain— and shock.
Come join us Hallowe'en!"
(from a Halloween party invitation, c. 1900)
10:00am-2:00pm
You are invited to the DAR Museum’s ghoulish celebration! Costumes are optional but fun is required at this old-fashioned, family-friendly Halloween party. Try out the treats, tricks, and games enjoyed during a Victorian Halloween.
Free admission! Get your free tickets
"Are you afraid to meet a ghost?
Of goblin friends dare you make boast?
What is the thing that scares you most?
Come join us Hallowe'en!
We name the hour as ten o'clock.
Admission comes if you but knock.
We hope to entertain— and shock.
Come join us Hallowe'en!"
(from a Halloween party invitation, c. 1900)
