Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in California
13 art museums in California publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 115 activities coming up, 72 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Studio Visit with Guadalupe Rosales
- Family Art Adventures: Early Childhood
- Communities Create LA! Día de los Muertos Calavera
- Saturday Studio: Sculpture & Light
- Perspective Drawing for Beginners
- Art Lab
- When the Holy Family Went Viral
- Crafting Seasonal Soap
- Images and Imagination: Collage Workshop (Bilingual)
- Artist-at-Work: Serigraphy | Artista en acción: Serigrafía
- Fiber Maker's Circle
- Andell Family Sundays: Home of the Future
- Mapping Utopias
- Learning from Laura Aguilar
- Learning from Laura Aguilar
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Wee Wednesday
- Art & Play (Ages 0–2)
- Boone Children's Gallery
- Art Break: An Ancient Beauty Contest Through a New Lens
- Second Saturday is Family Day
- Family Art Adventures
- 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
- In Session: Larry Johnson
- Watercolor Holiday Cards
- Art Lab
- Artists’ Conversation: Emory Douglas and William Rhodes
- Second Saturday Sketching
- Manet’s "Execution of Maximilian": Exhibition in Context
- Manet’s “Execution of Maximilian”: Exhibition in Context
- MAKE: Painting Poetry
- Family+ November
- Make Coiled Ornaments
- Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey
- Communal Land Care with TERREMOTO and Test Plot
- Live Model Drawing
- Art & Play (Ages 3–5)
- Walk with a Naturalist: November 2026
- Lunchtime Art Talk on Anonymous
- Kingsley Lecture Series: Fidencio Fifield Perez
- Malice in Wonderland: Cecil Beaton’s Life and Work
- Legacies of Mexican Photographers
- Legados de fotógrafos mexicanos | Legacies of Mexican Photographers
- Anything but Brushes
- Sacred Heritage in the Andes: Conserving the Baroque Church of Rondocan
- Day in the Life of a Docent
- Artist-at-Work: Making Mosaics | Artista en acción: Creación de mosaicos
- Modern Mosaics: Family Workshop | Mosaicos modernos: taller familiar
- Community Art Workshop
- Cassatt Reconsidered
- Shapes and Patterns in Motion
- Art Lab
- The Art of Fashion & Photography: A Collaborative Runway
- Images and Imagination: Collage Workshop (Bilingual)
- MAKE: Painting Poetry
- Artist-at-Work: Serigraphy | Artista en acción: Serigrafía
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Art museums in California
- J. Paul Getty MuseumLos Angeles, CA31 upcoming · 29 freeOfficial site
- Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles, CA6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- Hammer MuseumLos Angeles, CA10 upcoming · 10 freeOfficial site
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- The San Diego Museum of ArtSan Diego, CA7 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- Norton Simon MuseumPasadena, CA7 upcomingOfficial site
- Crocker Art MuseumSacramento, CA15 upcomingOfficial site
- Santa Barbara Museum of ArtSanta Barbara, CA7 upcoming · 3 freeOfficial site
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveBerkeley, CA8 upcomingOfficial site
- Orange County Museum of ArtCosta Mesa, CA8 upcoming · 8 freeOfficial site
- Palm Springs Art MuseumPalm Springs, CA2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- San Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CA2 upcomingOfficial site
- Bakersfield Museum of ArtBakersfield, CA6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site