Ringling Museum offers trick-or-treating on Halloween

The series of recent hurricanes left many neighborhoods with debris awaiting collection. 

Nonetheless, kids and families had a safe and picturesque place to go trick-or-treating on the evening of Halloween, in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Halloween at The Ringling invited families for activities that included trick-or-treating in the museums courtyard around its many sculptures.

It also featured gallery educators in costume, crafts, a seek-and-find activity and food by Currywurst Truck SRQ.

Admission was free of charge, with the museum only requesting a food donation for those impacted by the storms. 

"It was great. We had a lot of fun, so we hope they do more of it," said attendee Victoria Lear, who said it was an opportunity for the kids to "let loose" and explore the museum in an environment geared toward them.

Ames Morton-Winter, coordinator for youth and family programs at the museum, said the experience turned out as hoped. 

"When we threw out the idea of having Halloween, we had a vision of kids in costumes running around the art and statues, and seeing the kids in the galleries engaging with the pieces, and it's really exactly what we had hoped for, that sort of special night at the museum."