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Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming! Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch software. For children age 9 to 13; parents may accompany child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. Put the "fun" in "fungus" and help Cheryl plant shiitake mushrooms. We'll "plant" them into wooden logs, as the wood decays, the mushrooms grow. Mushrooms are delicious, nutritious, and fun […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. Flex your manual dexterity skills as we craft clay menageries, monsters, and more. Roll, sculpt, slap, and ball, all techniques are encouraged. All Exploration Stations are free with general museum […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. Shake, rattle, and roll your marbel through tunnels, around barriers, over ramps, and under arches in your DIY paper plate maze. It's physics up-close-and-personal when you make your obstacles and […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. It's easier to shake, shake, shake, shake it off when you're using your own, custom, one-of-a-kind maracas. Tim—MCM-famous for his popular "Music with Tim" Thursday morning program—guides you as you […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. How does your garden grow? Even the most contrary kid will find it blooming when you get started with Cheryl, who is the caretaker of all the gardens at MCM. […]
(Please mentally start humming "In the Arms of the Angels" by Sarah McLachlan here.)All across the world—even right here in Wisconsin—thousands upon thousands of rocks lay alone, cold, and friendless. They're waiting, just waiting for that special kid to come along, pick them up, and take them home. Could your child be the one? Bring […]
Join us for special programming during the MMSD Spring Break Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. This garden looks just delectable! Turn cupcake wrappers into delightful daffodils, perfect primrose, and convincing cornflowers (okay, you might have to squint a little to be convinced.) Learn how to […]
Explore the world of poetry through creative art and writing projects. Learn about poetry devices and while working with a variety of mediums including bookmaking, cartooning, collage, and sculpture.Recommended for school-age kids through adult visitors, with modifications available for younger children.
Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming! Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch software. For children age 9 to 13; parents may accompany child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more […]
Visit the Art Studio for a special project each week with staff facilitation.
Explore the world of poetry through creative art and writing projects. Learn about poetry devices and while working with a variety of mediums including bookmaking, cartooning, collage, and sculpture.Recommended for school-age kids through adult visitors, with modifications available for younger children.
Help prepare the Log Cabin garden for spring and learn about gardens planted by early European settlers in Wisconsin. Cabin Life invites you to try your hand at crafts and activities from around the time our original log cabin was built in the 1840s.
Visit the Art Studio for a special project each week with staff facilitation.
Explore the world of poetry through creative art and writing projects. Learn about poetry devices and while working with a variety of mediums including bookmaking, cartooning, collage, and sculpture.Recommended for school-age kids through adult visitors, with modifications available for younger children.
Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming! Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch software. For children age 9 to 13; parents may accompany child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more […]
Help prepare the Log Cabin garden for spring and learn about gardens planted by early European settlers in Wisconsin. Cabin Life invites you to try your hand at crafts and activities from around the time our original log cabin was built in the 1840s.
Join us for a drop-in program during UW-Madison's Student Senior Service Week. Exploration Stations offer a new hands-on activity each day for ages 4 and up. Come make your mark using MCM's very own printing press. Create custom posters and practice problem solving and literacy skills by setting block type in reverse. Once you've made […]
Our art studio staff will lead visitors in a weekly assortment of creative clay sculpture activities.
We will create all kinds of collaborative projects- plant pots, jewelry, ornaments, tiles and more.
All ages are welcome to join us and experiment with clay.
Explore the world of poetry through creative art and writing projects. Learn about poetry devices and while working with a variety of mediums including bookmaking, cartooning, collage, and sculpture.Recommended for school-age kids through adult visitors, with modifications available for younger children.
Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming! Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch software. For children age 9 to 13; parents may accompany child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more […]
Help prepare the Log Cabin garden for spring and learn about gardens planted by early European settlers in Wisconsin. Cabin Life invites you to try your hand at crafts and activities from around the time our original log cabin was built in the 1840s.
Our art studio staff will lead visitors in a weekly assortment of creative clay sculpture activities.
We will create all kinds of collaborative projects- plant pots, jewelry, ornaments, tiles and more.
All ages are welcome to join us and experiment with clay.
Explore the world of poetry through creative art and writing projects. Learn about poetry devices and while working with a variety of mediums including bookmaking, cartooning, collage, and sculpture.Recommended for school-age kids through adult visitors, with modifications available for younger children.
Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming! Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch software. For children age 9 to 13; parents may accompany child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more […]
Get decked out with wooden beads and sinew thread while exploring early jewelry-making. Flex your fine motor skills and practice hand-eye coordination to design custom bracelets and necklaces out of natural, historical materials. Cabin Life invites you to try your hand at crafts and activities from around the time our original log cabin was built […]
Join us for story time and hear Teresa read some of her favorite books using her DynaVox. With this speech-generating device, Teresa will share stories and help build listening skills, develop early literacy, and celebrate each other’s differences. This event is free with general museum admission.
The sky's the limit on these toothpick and clay structures. Practice your engineering skills, explore the stability of triangles versus rectangles, and challenge yourself to build high. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities foster children's creativity, ignite curiosity, encourage divergent thinking, and increase problem-solving skills as children explore the world around them.
Our art studio staff will lead visitors in a weekly assortment of creative clay sculpture activities.
We will create all kinds of collaborative projects- plant pots, jewelry, ornaments, tiles and more.
All ages are welcome to join us and experiment with clay.
Start your summer with a night of music, dancing, food, and drinks for all ages in the Wonderground. MCM's first musical guest of the season is Atimevu, a local band offering traditional Ghanian tunes. Don't miss the mini-set by opera tenor David Blalock and pianist Scott Gendel, performed in our Giant Bucket. Admission is pay […]
