Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in California
12 art museums in California publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 138 activities coming up, 70 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Boone Children's Gallery
- Talking Virtual with Artist Claire Hentschker
- Lunchtime Art Talk on Gê Viana
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema
- The Fine Art of Japanese Clay
- Fiber Arts Workshop
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Material Explosion: Mix Paint and Invent New Colors
- Family Art Adventures
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Layers of Change: Printmaking across Cultures and Time
- Contemplative Salt Bath
- Édouard Manet, Jeanne Demarsy, and the Art of Parisian Chic
- Checkmate! Chess at the Norton Simon Museum
- Conversation: Rasha Salti and Natalia Brizuela
- MAKE: Painted Movie Scenes
- Fiber Maker's Circle
- Andell Family Sundays: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific
- Wrenching News Workshops
- Beginning Drawing and Composition
- Show and Tell: Yoko Ono Archive
- Lunchtime Art Talk on Vibeke Mascini
- Fall Adult Ceramics Session 1
- Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland
- Photo Forum
- Teen Art Labs
- Family Art Adventures: Early Childhood
- Saturday Studio
- Sculpt a Ceramic Salt Cellar
- Moving Stories: Sculpture, Sketching and Expression
- Art Lab
- Playhouse and Playdough
- Images and Imagination: Collage Workshop (Bilingual)
- Artist-at-Work: Serigraphy | Artista en acción: Serigrafía
- Talk: Jonathan Alexander
- Seen/Unseen: A Closer Look at Odilon Redon Drawings
- Broken
- Seen/Unseen: A Closer Look at Odilon Redon Drawings
- Crocker x Common Knowledge
- Lunchtime Art Talk on Monica Majoli
- From Thumbnail to Finished Artwork
- The Beauty of Blooms
- Artist-at-Work: Making Mosaics | Artista en acción: Creación de mosaicos
- Modern Mosaics: Family Workshop | Mosaicos modernos: taller familiar
- Second Saturday is Family Day @ BMoA
- Sketching in the Galleries
- Visual Narratives: Art and Storytelling
- Second Saturday Sketching
- Shibori Dyeing Techniques
- MAKE: Inside the Box
- Getty Supper Club: The Literary Gourmet
- Lost, Found, and Beyond: Provenance at America’s Museums with Victoria Reed
- Wee Wednesday
- Senior Studio
- Art & Play (Ages 0–2)
- Lunchtime Art Talk on Mavis Pusey
- Monoprinting Made Easy
- Reimagining Our Waterways: The Second Art & Climate Symposium
- Family Festival: LA and Mexico in Focus
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Art museums in California
- J. Paul Getty MuseumLos Angeles, CA30 upcoming · 29 freeOfficial site
- Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles, CA6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- Hammer MuseumLos Angeles, CA16 upcoming · 16 freeOfficial site
- Norton Simon MuseumPasadena, CA14 upcomingOfficial site
- The San Diego Museum of ArtSan Diego, CA4 upcomingOfficial site
- Crocker Art MuseumSacramento, CA37 upcomingOfficial site
- Orange County Museum of ArtCosta Mesa, CA9 upcoming · 9 freeOfficial site
- Santa Barbara Museum of ArtSanta Barbara, CA8 upcoming · 3 freeOfficial site
- San Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CA6 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- Palm Springs Art MuseumPalm Springs, CA3 upcoming · 3 freeOfficial site
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveBerkeley, CA3 upcomingOfficial site
- Bakersfield Museum of ArtBakersfield, CA2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site