Youth Night: Vacation Mode (6th-8th graders)

Get ready for summer break by shifting into vacation mode at MuseumLab!

Enjoy picnic-themed snacks and drinks, and try your hand at some of these classic and digital summer camp activities:

  • Sticker making with Cricut digital cutting machine
  • Wood burning
  • Laser etching aluminum tags
  • Game room
  • and more!

This is a parent-free evening for youth in grades 6–8 (or equivalent ages).

Tickets: $7 

Free for mlabPASS holders! Learn more here.

Buy tickets here

Youth Night at MuseumLab is generously supported by Arconic Foundation.

This event is part of Remake Learning Days Southwestern PA 2025, #RemakeLearningDaysSWPA. Learn more at https://remakelearningdays.org/.

Youth Night: PALentine’s Day (6th-8th graders)

Join us for a PALentine’s Day-themed Youth Night! Bring your besties and buddies for an evening of activities, games, and snacks.

Activities include:

  • Creating laser-cut wax seals
  • Paper marbling and card making
  • Metal-stamped conversation hearts
  • Silent Disco
  • Friendship bracelets and pins
  • Visiting the game room for a chance to win prizes

Also enjoy a waffle bar and build-your-own snack mix.

This is a parent-free event designed for youth in grades 6 – 8 (or equivalent ages.)

Tickets: $7

Purchase tickets here! 

 

FREE for mlabPASS holders. Learn more about mlabPASS.

 

 

Youth Night is made possible with generous support from Arconic Foundation.

MakeLab: Stained Glass-9+

Learn to use a soldering iron, copper tape, and glass pieces to create designs in stained glass. Add to our communal creation as you explore this technique.

This activity uses hot tools and sharp materials and is designed for visitors ages 9 and up.

MakeLab: Stained Glass-9+

Learn to use a soldering iron, copper tape, and glass pieces to create designs in stained glass. Add to our communal creation as you explore this technique.

This activity uses hot tools and sharp materials and is designed for visitors ages 9 and up.

MakeLab: Stained Glass-9+

Learn to use a soldering iron, copper tape, and glass pieces to create designs in stained glass. Add to our communal creation as you explore this technique.

This activity uses hot tools and sharp materials and is designed for visitors ages 9 and up.

MakeLab: Stained Glass-9+

Learn to use a soldering iron, copper tape, and glass pieces to create designs in stained glass. Add to our communal creation as you explore this technique.

This activity uses hot tools and sharp materials and is designed for visitors ages 9 and up.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Needle Felting – Ages 8+

Join us in Make Lab to learn the art of needle felting! Explore the material properties of wool and use it to “paint” a fiber art piece. Will you turn your felted fabric into a hanging tapestry, a clothing patch or something else?

This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 8+ due to the use of sharp tools.

Make Lab: Machine Sewing

Join us in Make Lab to learn how to use a sewing machine! Practice stitching, cutting and measuring fabric, and threading the machine to sew a simple starter project such as a pillow case or bag – or create your very own sewn design.

Make Lab: Machine Sewing

Join us in Make Lab to learn how to use a sewing machine! Practice stitching, cutting and measuring fabric, and threading the machine to sew a simple starter project such as a pillow case or bag – or create your very own sewn design.

Make Lab: Machine Sewing

Join us in Make Lab to learn how to use a sewing machine! Practice stitching, cutting and measuring fabric, and threading the machine to sew a simple starter project such as a pillow case or bag – or create your very own sewn design.

Make Lab: Machine Sewing

Join us in Make Lab to learn how to use a sewing machine! Practice stitching, cutting and measuring fabric, and threading the machine to sew a simple starter project such as a pillow case or bag – or create your very own sewn design.

Youth Night at MuseumLab (6th-8th graders)

Youth Night is an evening of games, music, making stuff, prizes and snacks in one of the coolest spaces in the city, MuseumLab!

The theme for this month’s Youth Night is “Chill Out”. We will feature games inspired by the Olympics, and activities such as:

  • Photo altering
  • Trinket shop
  • Jewelry making
  • Ice painting

Don’t miss a chance to explore the immersive installations of Gymlacium and Chroma Maze too.

For 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.

Youth Night is FREE

Advance registration is recommended but walkups are welcome!  Parents must be present for walkup entries.   

Click here to register.

Made possible by generous support from Arconic Foundation.

Youth Night at MuseumLab (6th-8th graders)

Youth Night is an evening of games, music, making stuff, prizes and snacks in one of the coolest spaces in the city, MuseumLab!

Enjoy a silent disco, sand art, tie dying, license plate stamping, games, prizes, carnival themed treats And we’re transforming spaces into vacation hot spots like the beach, Kennywood, the Southwest and outer space. Don’t miss a chance to explore the immersive installations of Gymlacium and Chroma Maze too.

For 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.

Youth Night is FREE

Advance registration is recommended but walkups are welcome!  Parents must be present for walkup entries.   

Click here to register.

Made possible by generous support from Arconic Foundation.