Minds of All Kinds

Join us for a sensory-friendly evening

Enjoy a less crowded environment as you get hands-on with activities designed to pique curiosity and inspire discovery. The event features accommodations for sensitivities to lights and sounds.

• Navigate through our Speed and Boost exhibitions at your own pace.
• Explore the touring exhibition Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks which features 20 impressive skyscraper replicas and more than 200,000 LEGO bricks for free-building.
• Get hands on by building structures for a collaborative cardboard city.
• Meet spiders, cockroaches and more critters in the Animal Lab.
• Stop by the Eco Lab and learn more about our new STEM Garden. How many different plant varieties can you identify?
• Visit the sensory area for special LEGO brick activities.
• Embark on an epic journey through the cosmos or explore how iconic structures across the globe were built. Whether you see an astronomy show or giant screen film in The Dome, the experience will be awe-inspiring.

Minds of All Kinds admission is free. Registration is required.

Thanks to our partners at Virginia Voice, SOAR365, Autism Society of Central Virginia, Friendship Circle of Virginia, Down Syndrome Association of Greater Richmond and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired for collaborating on this event.