A Haunting at 100: Halloween Party
October 30, 2026 | 6–10 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art
Registration Required
Please note: The entrance for this event has moved to the Stent Family Wing.
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The High turns 100 this year, and a century leaves a few ghosts in the halls. On Friday, October 30, we’re opening the doors after dark for A Haunting at 100, a Halloween party that takes over the whole museum. Dance in Taylor Lobby, gather around for ghost stories in the Atrium, slip into the galleries on an after-hours tour and raise a glass to our first hundred years.
Costumes aren’t required, but they are strongly encouraged.
Where the Spirits Gather
Taylor Lobby: The Dance Floor
DJ Mudra Mami will keep the crowd moving all evening. Get a themed drink at the cash bar, snap a pic in the photobooth, or swing by the Museum Shop. At 9 p.m., show off your look at our costume contest. Prizes will be awarded for the best couples costume, most creative, sexiest, scariest, funniest.
Atrium: The Haunt
Settle in for ghost stories from award-winning storyteller Amanda Lawrence, who takes you into Appalachian folklore at its finest through spellbinding stories that make up her chilling and thrilling one woman show, That Haint Right: Appalachian Ghost Stories.
Treat yourself at the candy bar or grab a drink at the cash bar, then strike a pose in front of the photo wall or linger at a candlelit table for art making and games. This is also where you sign up for gallery tours.
Orkin Terrace: The Lounge
Step outside to catch your breath or grab a bite from the El Ponce food cart. The Terrace has lounge seating and a spooky photobooth ready for your best costume shot.
Schedule
6 p.m. | Doors open, music starts
6:30 p.m. | Docent-led gallery tour (45 minutes)
7 p.m. | Ghost stories with Amanda Lawrence, Atrium (20 mins)
7:30 p.m. | After-hours Halloween tour (30 minutes, limited to 50 guests)
8 p.m. | That Haint Right: Appalachian Ghost Stories with Amanda Lawrence, Atrium (50 minutes)
9 p.m. | Costume contest, Taylor Lobby
9 p.m. | After-hours Halloween tour (30 minutes, limited to 50 guests)
10 p.m. | The party ends. The ghosts and fun memories stay.
Meet the DJ: Mudra Mami
Mudra Mami doesn’t just play a set. She reads the room. The genre-fluid DJ blends Afro House, R&B, hip-hop, amapiano, house, baile funk and global sounds into sets built for energy, emotion and movement. Whether she’s playing a nightclub, a hotel, a private party or a cultural event, her goal stays the same: bring people together, get them moving and make a night worth remembering. Consider this your sign to wear shoes you can dance in.
Good to Know
Enter through the Stent Family Wing. Taylor Lobby becomes the dance floor for the night.
Cash bars are in Taylor Lobby, the Atrium and on the Orkin Terrace.
Halloween tours are limited to 50 guests each. Sign up in the Atrium the night of.
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