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On Friday, November 29, enjoy a special wizarding edition of Dino Drafts, the Academy beer garden, at Dragons After Dark! Enjoy pay-what-you-wish admission from 4–8 p.m. and extra fantastic beast encounters.

Enjoy “witches’” brews and “toadily” tasty tacos at this special edition of Dino Drafts, the Academy’s own beer garden. Make some magic with friends and loved ones while sipping fantasy-themed adult beverages under a REAL dragon. (Okay, okay, it’s a T. rex. But still!)

Enjoy many of the activities of our Wild Wizarding Weekend during Dragons After Dark. Click here for Wild Wizarding Weekend details.

At Dinos After Dark:

• See our new Dinosaurs Around the World exhibit 
• Visit Outside In, do a scavenger hunt and meet some of our amazing live animals and buggy boarders
• Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house
• Observe our technicians preparing real specimens in the Fossil Prep Lab
• Purchase drinks and food from the Academy Beer Garden: Dino Drafts 
• For faster check-in, pre-register for the next event today!

Dinos Drafts Beer Garden

12th St. Catering and the Academy of Natural Sciences are excited to offer Dino Drafts: The Academy Beer Garden inside the museum’s famous Dinosaur Hall during Dinos After Dark. Come warm up inside, play board games, purchase a drink, and enjoy mouthwatering bites at the foot of a 40-foot-long T. rex and its prehistoric friends.  Partial proceeds from Dino Drafts: The Academy Beer Garden benefit the Academy of Natural Sciences.