SFMOMA staff celebrating Halloween at the museum, 2024
Special Event

SFMOMAween

Saturday, Oct 31, 2026

11 a.m.–4 p.m.

Free with museum admission

Museum Tickets

This Halloween, trade the pumpkin patch for something a little more avant-garde. Bring your crew — whether that’s your toddler in a Warhol wig or your friends in full coordinated costume — to SFMOMAween. We’re taking over Floors 1, 2, and 4 for an all-ages celebration of creativity, performance, and art.

Join us for a costume contest, drag performance, art making, and puppetry. Drag king Luismi Monstruo Rude will host the Halloween costume contest and perform a spooky number of his own. Come dressed as your favorite artwork, artist, or anything else whimsical, scary, cute, or delightfully strange. See the contest details below.

Event Details

1:30 p.m. | Costume contest hosted by Drag King Luismi Monstruo Rude
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater

Show off your costume for the chance to win a prize! We’re looking for handmade, original costumes that make a creative connection to the exhibitions on view at SFMOMA. Costumes can interpret a specific artwork or artist, draw inspiration from a theme or idea in the exhibitions, or take a more unexpected approach to the museum’s collection and galleries.

Costume contest registration opens outside of Wattis Theater at 12:30 p.m. Open to all ages. Limited capacity; first come, first served.
 

11 a.m.–1 p.m. | Art Making
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Make Halloween-themed art with SCRAP!
 

11 a.m. + 2:30 p.m. | Lysistrata performance by Facing West Shadows
Floor 4, White Box

Enjoy a performance of Lysistrata with handmade animation, puppets, live music, and cast shadows. This reimagining of Aristophanes’ tragi-comedy explores themes of collective resistance and the pursuit of peace.

Lysistrata Performers
Lydia Greer: lydiagreer.com
Jessica Nguyen: ghosthearted.com
Ya Wen Chien: artswen.com
Desiree Sturrock

Costume Inspiration from SFMOMA Staff

A staff member as Wayne Thiebaud's Dessert Tray in 2022.
SFMOMA's Design Studio team as Olafur Eliasson's One-way Colour Tunnel in 2022.
SFMOMA's Conservation Team as The Living Wall in 2023.
SFMOMA's Finance and Legal teams as Rene Magritte's Le fils de l'homme (The Son of Man) in 2022.
SFMOMA's Design Team as Yayoi Kusama's Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love in 2023.
SFMOMA's Conservation Team as Joan Brown's Self Portrait in 2022.
SFMOMA's Design Team as KAWS and Estudio Campana's GANG SOFA in 2025.
A staff member as Leonora Carrington's The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot in 2025.