Join the Burpee Museum
for a fun, spooky Halloween party!
Costumes Encouraged!
Where’s the best place for spooky fun? The museum with the most dead things in Rockford! 💀 Join us Oct 25–26 for Haunted Burpee: flashlight graveyards, creepy dissections, glowing experiments & more. Don’t miss the Barnes Mansion tours – the #2 most haunted place in Rockford 👻 Costumes encouraged!
Kick off your Halloween weekend with a haunted museum experience full of fascinating, spooky stuff
Enjoy museum-wide special displays from the art of taxidermy to eyeball dissection!
Wander into the Haunted Graveyard and find your lost friends armed with a flashlight!
Admission Includes:
- Science Demonstrations, experiments, dissections, and skulls!
- Haunted Graveyard: Explore the spooky auditorium turned into a haunted hike…if you dare! Family Fun & Jump Scares included!
- Amazing Animals & Plants: Burpee is a library of dead leaves, reptiles, dinosaurs, and so much more. Explore with us!
- Bones & Fossils: Don’t mind us…we have been dead for a long time!
Additional Fun
- Barnes Mansion Tour: Join the ghost of Mrs. Julia Barnes as she guides you through the halls where she once hosted grand parties, mourned at heartbreaking funerals, and endured her final years in pain from a mysterious gunshot wound
ORDER TICKETS: Click on the dates above – order tickets and see Barnes Mansion Tour Times. Tickets still available call (815) 965-3433 or visit front desk.
Cost
- Non-Members: General Admission is $15 for adults, $13 for kids 4-12, and 3 and under are FREE.
- Members are FREE!
- Barnes Mansion Tour (includes Gen Admin) $20 All Ages Members Free (will sell out)
Museum Activities
- Join the family fun with activities like ancient “dead things” featuring real SKULLS
- Spooky experiments, glowing nature demos, and a Haunted Graveyard. Explore bones galore and dive into the Mad Scientist Lab for hands-on experiments!
- Mad Scientist Lab
Barns Mansion:
- Step inside a rare 1890s Victorian masterpiece built by the prominent Rockford Barnes family.
- Journey through time as you witness the home’s evolution with the arrival of electricity, the shift from wood to coal heating, and more.
- Explore the first-floor parlor and uncover the secret servant hallways.
- Hear captivating stories of the family’s triumphs, struggles, and even horrors, brought to life by your storyteller—the ghost of Mrs. Julia Barnes!
Barnes Mansion
GUIDED TOURS
Find out for yourself if it is really “haunted.”
Julia Barnes
ROCKFORD RESIDENT
Walk through her home and hear the family stories!
Taxidermy & Dissection
DEMONSTRATIONS
Learn how we preserve our precious dead things!
