What's New and Upcoming Events
Holiday Hat Trick
The “holiday hat trick” returns for the second time. For $25, adults can enjoy skating at Downtown Ice ($15 value), and gain admission to the San Jose Museum of Art ($8 value) and The Tech ($15 value) for $25, a savings of more than 33 percent. Pick up the “Hat Trick" vouchers at any of the three attractions. Visitors to The Tech can choose to see the museum or the museum and MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition. Learn more about our other activities for Christmas in the Park!MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition First and Only Bay Area Appearance!
Now OpenEnds January 6
10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. extended hours for exhibition
Discovery Channel's Emmy®-nominated series, MythBusters, comes to life to uncover truths behind popular myths by mixing scientific method with gleeful curiosity and old fashioned ingenuity. MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition creates hands-on, interactive experience for guests of all ages by combining popular scientific facts with innovative, family-friendly displays. Get more information.
After Hours
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Thursday, Janaury 3, 20137:00 p.m. – Midnight
$10 / $8 for members
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After Hours is the only monthly evening event, in downtown San Jose, where adults 21 and older enjoy science, technology, entertainment, and cocktails together with their friends. Each month provides an exclusive and fun setting of music, games, hands-on exhibits, and more. So bring your friends for an exciting evening of fun! Celebrate your birthday with The Tech Museum! If your birthday falls in the month of December, you can get in for free (with a valid ID)! For more information or to buy tickets please call (408) 294-8324. Or buy online now. (service charges may apply. Members service charges waived.)
Now Playing at The Hackworth IMAX Dome Theater
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Buy Tickets
The creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy returns to Middle-earth with this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic precursor The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins finds himself joining a company of 13 dwarves. Although their goal lies to the east, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever…Gollum.
Rocky Mountain Express Buy Tickets
Ride the rails along deep river canyons and over high mountain passes to discover some of the most stunning and rugged landscapes on Earth! This magnificent steam train adventure weaves spectacular IMAX aerial cinematography of the forbidding terrain of the Canadian Rockies with lovingly restored archival images from the historic, continent-shaping engineering of the nation's first transcontinental railway.
To the Arctic Buy Tickets
Venture across floating ice with a mother polar bear and her two cubs as they struggle to survive. Discover the extraordinary underwater world of the Arctic sea with beluga whales, Greenland sharks and walruses. Fly above a thundering herd of caribou making their way to their calving ground. A visually breathtaking story of life in the Arctic and the rapid changes occurring there.
