Natural wonders, natural disasters, technological leaps, and environmental portents. The BAMPFA art study centers present a special Five Tables viewing of art with a scientific bent. Works on view include: a barnacle-encrusted tea bowl from a 500-year-old Vietnamese shipwreck; the unique refractive “fingerprint” of a camera lens placed on a scanner in Sheila Pinkel’s LS9; and more!

There’s a terrifying new flu epidemic and your team are the only ones that can prevent a global outbreak. Travel across the globe collecting data, then come back to the lab to race against the clock to build the most effective vaccine. You’ll have to use your investigation and communication skills to get information without getting infected yourself. Can you solve the puzzles and save the world? Developed by the National Center for Science Education with a team of epidemiologists and evolutionary biologists, the play takes about 45 minutes and is open to 13 and older, or 8 and older if accompanied by an adult.

From abandoned mining towns to towns long underwater, come learn about maps and the ghost towns they depict at the Earth Sciences & Map Library. Explore featured maps and other documents of ghost towns and other abandoned places. Librarians and other speakers will be on hand to discuss the stories and different reasons people might abandon places. Visitors will be able to handle maps and discuss them with curators.