Adult Swim

media release: Are you tired of this timeline? Madison Children's Museum has other options for you!

This Friday's Adult Swim, the popular 21+ party at MCM, will feature a time travel theme. Adult Swim: Time Warp includes a multiverse of epochs to visit: 1850, 1925, 1975, 2125, and 3025, in different spots across the museum.

The event takes place Friday, April 11, 5:30–9 pm.

Tickets cost $20 in advance and $25 day of event. Orders of 10+ tickets get 10% off.

Wisconsin Time Machine will bring their film-accurate DeLorean time machine to the event. It will be parked by Rotary Plaza near the museum's front door from 2 to 8:30 pm, giving daytime visitors to MCM a chance to see it too. The owners of this DeLorean claim, "Everything in the car works exactly like it does in the film. You can turn on the Time Circuits, enter any date, initiate a time travel event and watch the Flux Capacitor come to life!" Madison Children's Museum takes no responsibility for returning guests to the current time period.

The DeLorean will be joined by an electric vehicle from MG&E—the vehicle of the future—closer to the start of the event.

Food and beverages are available for purchase: Mediterranean fare from Banzo’s pop-up food truck, as well as soft drinks, beer, wine, and zingy, time-twisting cocktails.

Dressing up is not required, but the theme invites many interpretations, from caveman cosplay to futuristic finery.

Timebending Activities:

• Premier Trivia–Time Warp edition: Enjoy brain twisters with temporally-inspired trivia.
• Time Hopping: Travel to 1850, 1925, 1975, 2125, and 3025 in different spots across the museum. The Wisconsin Historical Society is a program partner for this Adult Swim. They've helped make every epoch a learning experience.
• Build Your Own Time Capsule: Craft lava lamp jewelry, make mini robots, and write a letter to your future self (spoiler alert: you’re awesome) in the Art Studio.
• Future Food Frontier: Join the UW Entomology Society to sample the protein of the future: insects! Pro(tein) tip: enough ice cream makes anything taste good.
• Music from 1970s with DJ Nick Nice: Groove is in the heart… and also the Wonderground. Bell-bottoms optional!
• Soil… with a Past: Discover the time-essential process of composting and find out how yesterday’s food waste is essential for a greener future.
• MG&E Madness: It’s electric, it’s kinetic! Create spin art and generate power with your own body movement.

What is Adult Swim? 

Adult Swim at Madison Children’s Museum borrows the public pool tradition of kicking out the kids so adults can have the place to themselves (just without actual swimming). Adult Swim makes space to play like a grown-up—crafting, drinking, and leap-year-ing your way through the museum.