Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in Connecticut
11 art museums in Connecticut publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 61 activities coming up, 34 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Co-Create, A Family Art Adventure
- Free First Saturday - November 2026
- Art Adventures! – Saturday 11/7 Drop-In Art Class for Kids
- Art Workshop • Indigenous Voice in Urban Lettering
- Public Lecture | “Universal Harmonies… with Puerto Rican notes…” with Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, Chief Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce
- Gallery Talk: James Welling: Cento
- Bruce Visionary Awards 2026
- Bruce Visionary Awards
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: So Long Birds
- Art History Mini-series • Mixt Meanings: Minimal, Conceptual, Post-minimal and Earth Art; Neo-expressionism and the Resurgence of Narrative
- Teen Art Studio
- Art in Focus: Jane Hammond, Spells + Incantations, 2007
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Paint the Masters #2
- Family Day: Spectacular Space
- SECOND SATURDAYS FOR FAMILIES | Monet Moments
- Family Fun Day at MoCA/CT – November 14
- Getting StARTed
- Art Adventures! – Saturday 11/14 Drop-In Art Class for Kids
- Family Day: Leaf It to Your Imagination
- Cultural Intelligence Workshop
- Artist Conversation | Artist to Artist in the Batey: Luis Cotto and Victor Pacheco
- MoCA\CT Presents: Heida Hermanns International Music Competition – Final Round
- SOLD OUT - Bow Making and Wreath Decorating (Blooms and Bows at the Benton, Class #3)
- Gallery Talk | Taking Shape: Contemporary Art in 3D
- Gallery Talk | “Taking Shape: Contemporary Art in 3D”
- Gallery Talk: Wrapped for Eternity: Ancient Egyptian “Mummies”
- The Cultured Collector: A Conversation on Art, Collecting & Living with Art
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Sticky Walls Collage
- Art History Mini-series • ‘Fire and Ice’: Art in the Time of Crisis
- Teen Art Studio
- Sam Durant delivers the Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art
- MultiBowl Pottery Workshop with Leah Corbett
- Art Adventures! – Saturday 11/21 Drop-In Art Class for Kids — Copy
- ANNUAL SAMUEL THORNE MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026
- Experiences at the Bruce Behind the Frame: Curating American Art at The Newark Museum of Art
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Grateful Hearts and Hands
- Teen Art Studio
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Paper Play
- Teen Art Studio
- Art Workshop: Anatomical Drawing
- Free First Saturday - Winter Wonder Day 2026
- Gallery Talk: James Welling: Cento
- Stories and Art
- Fred Elser First Sunday Science: Know Your Wild Neighbors
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Making Faces
- Teen Art Studio
- Art in Focus: Unknown Italian artist, Rest on the Flight Into Egypt
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Festive Holiday Crafting #1
- Family Fun Day at MoCA/CT – December 12
- Getting StARTed
- Family Day: A Little Box of Winter Wonder
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Pine Cone Art
- Teen Art Studio
- Art•Bar Happy Hour: Festive Holiday Crafting #2
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Night Night Animals
- Bruce Beginnings Junior: Cool Countdown
- Teen Art Studio
- Teen Art Studio
- Teen Art Studio
- Teen Art Studio
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Art museums in Connecticut
- Yale University Art GalleryNew Haven, CT14 upcoming · 14 freeOfficial site
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHartford, CT6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- Bruce MuseumGreenwich, CT14 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Florence Griswold MuseumOld Lyme, CT4 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumRidgefield, CT1 upcomingOfficial site
- Florence Griswold MuseumOld Saybrook, CT4 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Fairfield University Art MuseumFairfield, CT8 upcoming · 8 freeOfficial site
- MoCA CTWestport, CT7 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Lyman Allyn Art MuseumNew London, CT6 upcoming · 3 freeOfficial site
- Slater Memorial MuseumNorwich, CTCheck the museum calendarOfficial site
- William Benton Museum of ArtStorrs, CT1 upcomingOfficial site