Curious Histories Fest
Curious Histories Fest is the Science History Institute’s annual celebration of science, history, exploration, and experimentation.
Curious Histories Fest 2024: Color Your World
Join us on Saturday, June 8, 2024, for a day of fun inspired by our BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile exhibition.
The festival will be packed with family activities, hands-on crafts, engaging talks, and live dyeing demos. Then visit our museum and see special collections showcasing strange and wondrous color and dye histories. Enjoy food trucks, special guests, live music, and so much more!
Participating Vendors and Partners
- Arts & crafts with Fleisher’s Color Wheels
- Sustainable clothing and fabric painting activity with Touch Threads
- Vibrant pop-up displays from our special collections
- Hands-on dyeing and sun printing activities—crafts to take home!
- Presentations on the history of natural dyes and fibers by Institute staff
- Colorful herbal tea tastings with Oma Herbal Teas
- Bonjour Crêperie food truck
- Siddiq’s Water Ice
- La Llamita Vegana food truck
- Beer tastings
- Music by Vinyl Tap 215 founder DJ DuiJi Mshinda
Curious Histories Fest 2023: A Taste of Water
The theme of our inaugural festival, “A Taste of Water,” featured a daylong celebration of the water in your world. Held on Saturday, June 10, 2023, more than 350 visitors enjoyed free hands-on activities and family-friendly fun, as well as exciting talks, tours, and highlights from our special collections.
Major funding for Curious Histories Fest is provided by chief presenting sponsor the Bolte Family Foundation.
Additional support provided by sustaining sponsor Dow.