Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in Connecticut
10 art museums in Connecticut publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 65 activities coming up, 24 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Experiences at the Bruce: Borrowed Light, A Lecture by Artist Rohini Devasher
- Experiences at the Bruce: Borrowed Light, An Evening with Artist Rohini Devasher
- Experiences at the Bruce: Borrowed Light, An Evening with Artist Rohini Devasher
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Wonder Boxes
- Teen Art Studio
- Art in Focus: Audrey Flack, Lux Eternal, 2022
- Lifetime of Looking
- Livestream Opening Night Lecture: James Welling: Cento
- Opening Night Lecture: James Welling: Cento
- Care and Connection
- Art Adventures! – Saturday 9/26 Drop-In Art Class for Kids
- Family Day: Getting Creative with Photography
- Aldrich Artists at the Table
- Science Solvers: Imagination Playground
- "Getting" Contemporary Art: The Aldrich Decennial
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Pin the Leaves on the Tree
- Gallery Talk: Wrapped for Eternity: Ancient Egyptian “Mummies”
- First Thursday - October 2026 - Teacher’s Night!
- Co-Create, A Family Art Adventure
- Free First Saturday - Pick and Paint a Pumpkin
- Art Adventures! – Saturday 10/3 Drop-In Art Class for Kids
- Face Painting & Faerie Hair
- Science Solvers: Chemical Reaction Paintings
- Fred Elser First Sunday Science: Greenwich Prehistory: 10,000 Years of Change
- Experiences at the Bruce: Art Explains Science with J Henry Fair
- Experiences at the Bruce: Art Explains Science with J Henry Fair
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Rock Play
- Art in Focus: David Roberts, The Hypostyle Hall
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Bespoke Faerie Dwelling #1
- Gallery Talk: James Welling: Cento
- Face Painting & Faerie Hair
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Circles Everywhere
- Lecture: Ladies’ Arts of the Early Republic
- Keynote Lecture: Altered States? The Shifting Impact of Our Visualizations
- Livestream Keynote Lecture with Katherine A. Schwab, PhD
- Keynote Lecture: The Shifting Impact of Our Visualizations of Antiquity
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Bespoke Faerie Dwelling #2
- Community Day
- Family Day: Let’s Draw Like an Ancient Egyptian
- Performance | Anindita Dutta: The Dream of Being
- Face Painting & Faerie Hair
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Fall Leaves
- Sensory Saturday
- Face Painting & Faerie Hair
- Science Solvers: Chemical Reaction Paintings
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Spider Webs
- Art History Mini-series • Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Genesis of Abstract Expressionism
- Lecture: New Media, Old Tropes? The Rebirth of Ancient Egypt in Video Games
- Livestream Lecture: New Media, Old Tropes?
- Artist Conversation | The Aldrich Decennial
- In-Person and Virtual Artist Conversation | The Aldrich Decennial
- Art History Mini-series • The Rise of Consumer Culture: Assemblage, Pop, Graffiti and Performance Art
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Paint the Masters #1
- Lecture series : Remember the 5th of November
- Co-Create, A Family Art Adventure
- Free First Saturday - November 2026
- Art Workshop • Indigenous Voice in Urban Lettering
- Art History Mini-series • Mixt Meanings: Minimal, Conceptual, Post-minimal and Earth Art; Neo-expressionism and the Resurgence of Narrative
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Paint the Masters #2
- Cultural Intelligence Workshop
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Art museums in Connecticut
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHartford, CTCheck the museum calendarOfficial site
- Yale University Art GalleryNew Haven, CT1 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Bruce MuseumGreenwich, CT16 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumRidgefield, CT10 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- Florence Griswold MuseumOld Lyme, CT11 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Florence Griswold MuseumOld Saybrook, CT11 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Fairfield University Art MuseumFairfield, CT13 upcoming · 13 freeOfficial site
- Lyman Allyn Art MuseumNew London, CT10 upcoming · 4 freeOfficial site
- MoCA CTWestport, CT2 upcomingOfficial site
- Slater Memorial MuseumNorwich, CT2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site