Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in Massachusetts
12 art museums in Massachusetts publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 200+ activities coming up, 74 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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Upcoming art activities in Massachusetts60 of 200+
- Gallery Talk: _On Location: Drawing the Outdoors_
- Dalí and the Book
- College Night: Clark After Dark
- What Makes a Maverick King?
- College Night: Clark After Dark
- Dionysos and Theater in Ancient Athens
- The Artist’s Voice: Njideka Akunyili Crosby with Ruth Erickson
- Phillips Library Open House: Recent Acquisitions
- Friday Afternoon Drop-In Art: Creepy Crawler Relief Prints
- Figure Drawing Open Studio
- Drop-In Art Making
- Chuseok Festival
- Phillips Library Open House: Recent Acquisitions
- Perfect Memory
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Bat Masks
- Drop-In Art Making
- The Artist’s Voice: Lucy Raven with Ruth Erickson
- Perfect Memory
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Bat Masks
- Artist Talk: Martine Gutierrez
- Meet Me at the Clark
- Discovery Cart
- Meet Me at the Clark
- Picasso: Cubism and Beyond
- Exhibition Opening Program for _The Way We Never Were_: Barbara Norfleet and Photography at Harvard
- Gallery Talk: Crafting Perfect Portraits with Photographic Proof Prints
- King Hatshepsut and the Powerful Women of the Early New Kingdom
- New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Tavitian Collection Symposium
- New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Aso O. Tavitian Collection Symposium
- New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Aso O. Tavitian Collection Symposium
- First/Hand Fridays: Power and Desire in Ancient Art
- Friday Afternoon Drop-In Art: Tiny Stick Brooms
- Perfect Memory
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Magic Bottles
- First Sunday Free: Museum Masquerade
- Play Date: Free Family Art Day
- First Sunday Free: Museum Masquerade
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Magic Bottles
- Wheel-Throwing for Everyone
- Materials Lab Workshop: Color Alchemy—Pigments and DIY Paint
- American Art Curators in Conversation
- Reel Talk Film Class: Blade Runner
- Gallery Talk: _On Location: Drawing the Outdoors_
- Art-Making After Dark
- In Conversation: Jenna Gribbon
- Artist Talk: Dave Holbrook’s "Ripple Effect"
- Friday Afternoon Drop-In Art: Tiny Stick Brooms
- Figure Drawing Open Studio
- Perfect Memory
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Magic Bottles
- In Conversation: Daniela Rivera
- Sensing Nature: From the Outside In
- Family ART-trek
- Perfect Memory
- Drop into Art – October
- Weekend Drop-in Art Making: Magic Bottles
- Sensing Nature: From the Outside In
- Perfect Memory
- Opening Celebration: 90 YEARS , Leilah Babirye: Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki) , and Cynthia Daignault: Valley
- The Artist’s Voice: Tony Oursler with Susan Goldberg, Meghan Clare Considine, and Nora Burnett Abrams
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Art museums in Massachusetts
- Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBoston, MA32 upcomingOfficial site
- Institute of Contemporary Art / BostonBoston, MA44 upcoming · 11 freeOfficial site
- Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, MA38 upcoming · 38 freeOfficial site
- The Clark Art InstituteWilliamstown, MA30 upcomingOfficial site
- Harvard Art MuseumsCambridge, MA21 upcoming · 21 freeOfficial site
- MASS MoCANorth Adams, MA2 upcomingOfficial site
- New Bedford Art MuseumNew Bedford, MA18 upcomingOfficial site
- Cape Cod Museum of ArtDennis, MA7 upcomingOfficial site
- Worcester Art MuseumWorcester, MA4 upcomingOfficial site
- Danforth Art Museum and Art SchoolFramingham, MA2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- Rose Art MuseumWaltham, MA1 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Fitchburg Art MuseumFitchburg, MA1 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site