Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
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Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Museum is closed today. Open hours as of November 1, 2021, are Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm. We will also be open December 26 - 31, 2021, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
2 events,
Coding Exploration
Coding Exploration
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with coding! We’ll explore various web-based coding platforms to build games, art and more.
3 events,
Imaginary Friends from Recycled Materials
Imaginary Friends from Recycled Materials
In Disney and Pixar’s hit animated feature Inside Out, Bing Bong is Riley’s special imaginary friend who is part cat, part elephant and part dolphin, with a body made of cotton candy. What is your imaginary friend made of? Join us in MAKESHOP as we create imaginary friends using recycled materials. This program is […]
Coding Exploration
Coding Exploration
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with coding! We’ll explore various web-based coding platforms to build games, art and more.
3 events,
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sold out: Copper Etching: Intaglio Printmaking (Ages 10+)
sold out: Copper Etching: Intaglio Printmaking (Ages 10+)
This workshop is sold out. We'll explore the process involved in copper plate electro etching, and learn how to transform drawings into etched intaglio printmaking plates. Create collaborative prints together that you can then take home. Sign up here to be notified of our next round of workshops! Metalworking workshops made possible by the generous […]
$15
Coding Exploration
Coding Exploration
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with coding! We’ll explore various web-based coding platforms to build games, art and more.
2 events,
Coding Exploration
Coding Exploration
Join us in MAKESHOP as we experiment with coding! We’ll explore various web-based coding platforms to build games, art and more.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Museum is closed today. Open hours as of November 1, 2021, are Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm. We will also be open December 26 - 31, 2021, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
3 events,
wire puppets
wire puppets
Join us in the Studio as we explore wire and the ways it can be bended, twisted, and formed into a puppet! How will you make this material come to life?
Coding in Motion
Coding in Motion
What happens when you add the power of computing to creations with moving parts? How can you direct the way your creation moves? How will your movements affect your creation? We’ll work with programmable sensors, motors, lights, and more.
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Color Matching
Color Matching
We often associate different colors with different emotions. In the Disney and Pixar hit animated feature Inside Out, each emotion is associated with a single color: yellow for Joy, blue for Sadness, red for Anger, green for Disgust and purple for Fear. Do colors make you feel different emotions? Do they remind you of different […]
2 events,
Coding in Motion
Coding in Motion
What happens when you add the power of computing to creations with moving parts? How can you direct the way your creation moves? How will your movements affect your creation? We’ll work with programmable sensors, motors, lights, and more.
wire puppets
wire puppets
Join us in the Studio as we explore wire and the ways it can be bended, twisted, and formed into a puppet! How will you make this material come to life?
3 events,
wire puppets
wire puppets
Join us in the Studio as we explore wire and the ways it can be bended, twisted, and formed into a puppet! How will you make this material come to life?
Coding in Motion
Coding in Motion
What happens when you add the power of computing to creations with moving parts? How can you direct the way your creation moves? How will your movements affect your creation? We’ll work with programmable sensors, motors, lights, and more.
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Design Squad: Helping Animals
Design Squad: Helping Animals
Do you have a pet or know someone who does? Do you like animals? How could you create a better way to care for a pet or help other animals? Use your imagination to design something new in during the Design Squad Days workshop series! In this workshop, you’ll learn the steps of the design […]
3 events,
wire puppets
wire puppets
Join us in the Studio as we explore wire and the ways it can be bended, twisted, and formed into a puppet! How will you make this material come to life?
Coding in Motion
Coding in Motion
What happens when you add the power of computing to creations with moving parts? How can you direct the way your creation moves? How will your movements affect your creation? We’ll work with programmable sensors, motors, lights, and more.
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Design Squad: Fashion with Function
Design Squad: Fashion with Function
Clothing is more than just a fashion statement. Do you own any clothes that have a certain purpose or solve a specific problem? Use your imagination to design something new in the maker space during the Design Squad Days workshop series! In this workshop, you’ll learn the steps of the design process while designing a […]
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Museum is closed today. Open hours as of November 1, 2021, are Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm. We will also be open December 26 - 31, 2021, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
2 events,
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
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Color Mixing with RGB LEDs
Color Mixing with RGB LEDs
In Disney and Pixar’s hit animated feature Inside Out, each memory is a glowing orb whose color matches one of the movie's five emotions: yellow for Joy, blue for Sadness, red for Anger, green for Disgust and purple for Fear. We eventually learn that some memories are associated with a mix of emotions, and their orbs […]
3 events,
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Free Day presented by Chase
Free Day presented by Chase
Enjoy free admission at the Children's Museum and MuseumLab today! Hours Children's Museum: 10:00 am - 5:00 PM MuseumLab: Noon - 5:00 PM Featured programs include: Gift Wrap Printing in MAKESHOP The Music in Me with DJ Shoe in the Emotions at Play with Pixar's Inside Out exhibit Tickets are limited. We strongly encourage all […]
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
The Music in Me: Explore the Relationship Between Emotions and Music with DJ Shoe
The Music in Me: Explore the Relationship Between Emotions and Music with DJ Shoe
Teaching artist and DJ-producer David Shoemaker will lead museum visitors in exploring the relationship between music and emotions in our newest exhibit, Emotion’s at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out. Using the exhibit’s Control Panel as a sound station, visitors will learn how simple sounds, like a piano chord or string pluck, can be the foundation for […]
1 event,
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Children's Museum is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Open hours are Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm.
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Museum is closed today. Open hours as of November 1, 2021, are Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. MuseumLab is open Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 5:00 pm. We will also be open December 26 - 31, 2021, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
3 events,
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
Emotional Charades
Emotional Charades
Emotions can look so many different ways. Pick one out of a hat and act it out at the stage in the Studio! What will it look like to you? Can others guess what emotion you are expressing? Take turns. Let someone else pick an emotion to act out—can you guess? This program is made […]
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
3 events,
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
Gift Wrap Printing
Gift Wrap Printing
Print your own gift wrap in MAKESHOP using various printmaking techniques. Will your gift wrap provide a hint about the gift inside? Add a message to the recipient? You decide!
1 event,
Museum Closed
Museum Closed
The Museum is closed today for the holiday. We will reopen on December 26 at 9:00 am. Hope to see you soon!
2 events,
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
2 events,
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
2 events,
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
2 events,
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
2 events,
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
4 events,
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
storytelling
storytelling
Join us in the Studio as we explore different ways to tell a story through performance! How can you set the scene with lighting? What does music or sound add to the tale you are telling? Come explore with us and put on a show.
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Create a Bright New Year
Create a Bright New Year
Join us in MAKESHOP as we explore and create with light! What will you create to ring in a bright New Year? How will your creation change the light that shines through it? What colors and patterns can you make using light?
1 event,
Museum Closed – Jan 1
Museum Closed – Jan 1
The Museum is closed today. Happy New Year! The Children's Museum will reopen on January 2 at 10:00 am. Hope to see you soon
2 events,
MAKESHOP Forest
MAKESHOP Forest
Join us as we turn MAKESHOP into a life-sized forest! Using recycled materials and our imaginations, we’ll sculpt trees, plants, creatures and more. What part of the forest ecosystem will you create?
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Closing of Puppets: A Beautiful Fantasy
Closing of Puppets: A Beautiful Fantasy
Join us in the Art Studio for the final day of Puppets: A Beautiful Fantasy! Come and preform on the stage, articulate a puppet, or write a story for the final time.