Registration
SLAC offers free public tours twice a month.
Registration opens on the last Friday of the previous month at 9 a.m. Our Web-based tour registration is available online only. No phone calls or email requests will be taken for public tour registration. Tours are popular and spaces fill up quickly; we recommend registering as early as possible.
This is the list of scheduled tours: please choose a date for registration.
- November 16, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. (registration opens Friday, October 26 at 9:00 a.m.)
- November 16, 2018, 2:30-4:00 p.m. (registration is full; wait list only)
- December 7, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. (registration opens Friday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m.)
- December 7, 2018, 2:30-4:00 p.m. (registration opens Friday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m.)
- December 14, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. (registration opens Friday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m)
- December 14, 2018, 2:30-4:00 p.m. (registration opens Friday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m)
Tickets are non-transferable.
SLAC tours are open to all visitors 12 years of age and above. Children 12-18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult; tickets are required for both the minor and the escorting adult.
All public tours meet in the SLAC Orientation Theater, Room 1010, Building 53. The 1:00pm tour meets at 12:45pm, and the 2:30pm tour meets at 2:15pm. Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and includes a visit to the lab's 2-mile-long linear accelerator.
Closed-toe shoes are required.
For more details on tour locations, guidelines, directions and other information, please see our guidelines page and the Tours FAQs.
We look forward to hosting you at SLAC!
