Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in Massachusetts
12 art museums in Massachusetts publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 177 activities coming up, 72 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Beyond the Spectrum Kids
- Watershed Community Event: Harboring Creativity
- Perfect Memory
- In Conversation: Laurent Grasso
- In Conversation: Laurent Grasso Metaphysical Maze
- Drop-In Art Making
- Family ART-trek
- Watershed Community Event: Harboring Creativity
- Perfect Memory
- Landscape Painting Two-Day Workshop
- Drop into Art – November
- Noguchi-Inspired Playground Collages
- ICA Unlocked: Contemporary Art for the Curious
- Gallery Talk: Taking the Stage—Ancient Greek Performers and Their Masks
- Perfect Memory
- Wampanoag Art at the MFA
- Art-Making After Dark
- Suzanne Jackson in Conversation with Imani Perry
- The Artist’s Voice: Leilah Babirye with Ruth Erickson
- Art Study Center Seminar: A Pre-Raphaelite Preview
- Book Talk: Matisse at War by Christopher C. Gorham
- Drop-In Art Making: Noguchi-Inspired Light Sculptures
- Drop-In Art Making
- Remembrance Altars
- Make Art @ FAM
- Perfect Memory
- Uncomputable Thread Presentation and Movement Workshop
- Making Time: Drawing Between Us
- Noguchi and Japanese American Internment During World War II
- Noguchi-Inspired Playground Collages
- Artist Talk: Elisa H. Hamilton, Heirlooms in Conversation
- Clark Prize Lecture: Georgina Kleege: What Blindness Brings to the Art Museum
- Drop-In Art Making
- Perfect Memory
- Artist Talk: Christine E. Brown
- Relief Printmaking Two-Day Workshop
- Noguchi-Inspired Playground Collages
- Family Artmaking: Folding Fortune Tellers
- Clark Prize Lecture: Georgina Kleege: What Blindness Brings to the Art Museum
- Art + Science: Inpainting Techniques
- Online Series: Eyes on Art
- Clark Collage Club
- The United States and Haiti: When History (and Revolutions) Binds Us
- Printmaking for the Holidays
- Clark Collage Club
- Virtual Member Lecture: Art of the Americas, 1700–1800
- Gallery Talk: _On Location: Drawing the Outdoors_
- Drop-In Art Making
- Home School Family Day Workshop, Ages 6–11
- Home School Family Day Workshop, Ages 3–5
- Materials Lab Workshop: Casting Connections—Molds, Replicas, and Questions of Authorship
- Home School Family Day Workshop, Ages 6–11
- Drop-In Art Making: Noguchi-Inspired Light Sculptures
- Figure Drawing Open Studio
- PAINT NIGHT! Paint the Collection with Michael Giaquinto
- ICA Unlocked: Contemporary Art for the Curious
- Drop-In Art Making
- Beyond the Spectrum Teens
- Wreath Making Workshop
- Arms and Armor Demonstration: Roman Legion
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Art museums in Massachusetts
- Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBoston, MA21 upcomingOfficial site
- Harvard Art MuseumsCambridge, MA20 upcoming · 20 freeOfficial site
- Peabody Essex MuseumSalem, MA41 upcoming · 41 freeOfficial site
- Institute of Contemporary Art / BostonBoston, MA37 upcoming · 7 freeOfficial site
- The Clark Art InstituteWilliamstown, MA16 upcomingOfficial site
- MASS MoCANorth Adams, MA5 upcomingOfficial site
- New Bedford Art MuseumNew Bedford, MA14 upcomingOfficial site
- Worcester Art MuseumWorcester, MA13 upcomingOfficial site
- Cape Cod Museum of ArtDennis, MA5 upcomingOfficial site
- Rose Art MuseumWaltham, MA1 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site
- Danforth Art Museum and Art SchoolFramingham, MA2 upcoming · 2 freeOfficial site
- Fitchburg Art MuseumFitchburg, MA2 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site