1. HOPS
Museum-wide
6–9:30 pm (while supplies last)
Celebrate Oktoberfest early with help
from our friends at some local craft
breweries:
ALE SYNDICATE BREWERS
FINCH’S BEER COMPANY
HALF ACRE BEER COMPANY
LAKE EFFECT BREWING COMPANY
LAKEFRONT BREWERY
METROPOLITAN BREWING
REVOLUTION BREWING
SOLEMN OATH BREWERY
Your 8 sampling tickets* are good for
one beer sample each—these will be
deposited at each brewery station.
*Please keep track of your sampling tickets—
no replacement tickets will be issued.
BOTS
Museum-wide
6–9:30 pm
It’s a robot invasion! While beer-
serving robots are still a few years
away (except at Metropolitan
Brewing), we’re excited to share
the cutting-edge work being done
by these university groups, robotics
clubs, and tech companies that will
make our futuristic dreams a reality:
CHIBOTS
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT)
ROBOTICS CLUB
ROBOT CITY WORKSHOP
IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION SOCIETY
AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEM (IROS)
EXHIBITORS
Upper Level
TERRIBLE SPACESHIP PRESENTS
INVASION: 1938
Grainger Sky Theater
8:15 & 9:15 pm*
Terrible Spaceship, Chicago’s premier
ambient synthetic horror pop band,
rediscovers media from the past
and resuscitates it into a retro-
futuristic music and video multimedia
experience. Don’t miss their homage to
Orson Welles’ classic radio drama War
of the Worlds, set to an original score!
*Each 35-minute set will include different
pieces from the Invasion: 1938 album.
RADIO ONE CHICAGO +
PHOTOBOOTH
Café Galileo’s
6–10 pm
Check out our friends from Radio One
Chicago (88.7FM WLUW), a group of
music-lovers dedicated to promoting
exceptional local talent. They will be
hosting their regular Thursday night
show live from 6–8 pm. Don’t forget
to smile big in the Radio One Chicago
Photobooth!
Lower Level
SPACE VISUALIZATION
LABORATORY
6–7 pm Open Lab
7–10 pm Hourly Astronomy Talks
See awesome visualizations and hear
what’s “hop-pening” in our Universe
with physicists Alissa Bans, Alan
Zablocki, and Leo Soplin. Don’t miss
the chance to play with Sphero—an
app-controlled robotic ball that does
it all—at the Open Lab from 6–7 pm
or find a Sphero roaming the building
from 7–10 pm!
ATWOOD SPHERE
6–9:30 pm
Outside
TELESCOPE VIEWING
South Entrance
6–9 pm
Weather permitting
Sky Shows + Panels
COSMIC WONDER
Grainger Sky Theater
7 pm
UNDISCOVERED WORLDS
Definiti Space Theater
7:15 pm
NIGHT SKY LIVE!
Definiti Space Theater
6:30 pm, 8:15 pm, 9:15 pm
PANEL: CHEETAHS, FISH,
FINGERS & BACTERIA: THE
COMING MENAGERIE OF
MECHANICAL COHABITANTS
Johnson Star Theater – 8:15 pm *
Explore the remarkable developments
in robotic locomotion and
manipulation, from a quadruped that
takes its speed cues from a cheetah,
to nanorobots that corkscrew their
way through viscous fluids. Think
about the connections between mind,
body and environment, and, fueled
by hops, speculate on the manner in
which those connections will shape
the robotic menagerie of tomorrow.
PANELISTS:
ANTONIO BICCHI, UNIVERSITY OF PISA &
ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ITALY
SANGBAE KIM, MIT, USA
MALCOM MACIVER, NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY, USA
BRADLEY NELSON, ETH, SWITZERLAND
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE 3D
Samuel C. Johnson Family Star Theater
6:30 pm, 7:30 pm
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FACEBOOK
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Please choose the shows you’d like to see when you arrive, and
plan your evening around those show times. Plan to arrive 15-30
minutes before each show time.
#HopsNBots
Take a photo with a beer or robot and upload to your favorite social media platform
with the hashtag #HopsNBots! The most creative—as voted on by Adler staff—will
receive a free Family Membership to the museum!
Purchase tickets
early for Adler After Dark:
Dead Space on October 16,
where Terrible Spaceship will
be debuting their second
album—Zontar, the Thing
from Venus.

2. LOWER
LEVEL
HOPS
Museum-wide
6–9:30 pm (while supplies last)
1 ALE SYNDICATE BREWERS
2 FINCH’S BEER COMPANY
3 HALF ACRE BEER COMPANY
4 LAKE EFFECT BREWING COMPANY
5 LAKEFRONT BREWERY
6 METROPOLITAN BREWING
7 REVOLUTION BREWING
8 SOLEMN OATH BREWERY
BOTS
Museum-wide
6–9:30 pm
9 CHIBOTS
10 ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
ROBOTICS CLUB
11 ROBOT CITY WORKSHOP
12 IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION SOCIETY
AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS
EXHIBITORS
TERRIBLE SPACESHIP PRESENTS
INVASION: 1938
Grainger Sky Theater
8:15 & 9:15 pm*
RADIO ONE CHICAGO
+ PHOTOBOOTH
Café Galileo’s
6–10 pm
SPACE VISUALIZATION
LABORATORY
6–7 pm Open Lab
7–10 pm Hourly Astronomy Talks
ATWOOD SPHERE
6–9:30 pm
TELESCOPE VIEWING
South Entrance
6–9 pm
COSMIC WONDER
Grainger Sky Theater
7 pm
UNDISCOVERED WORLDS
Definiti Space Theater
7:15 pm
NIGHT SKY LIVE!
Definiti Space Theater
6:30 pm, 8:15 pm, 9:15 pm
PANEL: CHEETAHS, FISH,
FINGERS & BACTERIA: THE
COMING MENAGERIE OF
MECHANICAL COHABITANTS
Johnson Star Theater – 8:15 pm *
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE 3D
Samuel C. Johnson Family Star Theater
6:30 pm, 7:30 pm
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BARS (REGULAR & SATELLITE)
Café Galileo’s
6–9:45 pm
DINNER FOR PURCHASE
Café Galileo’s
6:30-9:30 pm
ATM
Upper Level
near the blue stairs
RESTROOMS
Mid-levels off the blue
and red stairs
COMPLIMENTARY CHEESE BUFFETT
Courtesy of Cabot Cheese
Café Galileo’s while supplies last
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18
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Specialty Drink: Reinheitsgebot Deviation
Grey Goose Le Citron Vodka, Ruby Rhubarb
Tea Liqueur, Greenbush Closure, Fresh Lemon
* The Grainger SkyTheater will not be accessible
through the Rainbow Lobby. Please use entrance
across from the blue stairs.
Thanks to:
MAP
SOUTH ENTRANCE
VENDING
LOCKERS
STAIRS TO
JOHNSON
THEATER
DEFINITI
THEATER
MAIN ENTRANCE
UPPER
LEVEL
CAFÉ
GALILEO’S
ADLER
STORE
$
ATM
GRAINGER
THEATER
1
3
5
4
9
2
10
11
12
6
87
Mid-levels
Off the blue and red stairs.