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Poetry Playtime
Poetry Playtime
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.
Cabin Life: Springtime Gardening
Cabin Life: Springtime Gardening
Help prepare the Log Cabin garden for spring and learn about flowers, herbs, and other plants cultivated by 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.
Tales with Teresa
Tales with Teresa
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.
Music Time with Tim
Music Time with Tim
Explore the world of music and rhythm. Join Tim to play instruments and enjoy play-based songs, games, and stories.
Mess Monsters
Mess Monsters
Take chances, make mistakes, get messy! Join us for sensory art projects designed especially for preschoolers and caregivers. We will make all kinds of art involving touch, smell, sound and more!
Wisconsin School Garden Day
Wisconsin School Garden Day
Kids and plants need many of the same things to grow healthy and strong. Clean air, fresh water, good nutrition, and a healthy environment. MCM is proud to again be a part of Wisconsin School Garden Day, which highlights the importance of garden education for growing minds. Come celebrate and help plant our rooftop teaching […]
Twilight Thursday: Open Until 8 pm
Twilight Thursday: Open Until 8 pm
The whole museum is open until 8 pm on Thursdays. Twilight Thursday evening hours are included free, with general museum admission. See admission prices and get tickets. Special events: On December 8 We welcome Autism Society of South Central Wisconsin for a family night gathering. Families affected by autism may register for free tickets at Autism […]
Music with Junebug
Music with Junebug
Join us for Music with Junebug led by Junko Yamauchi. This program gives toddlers and preschoolers the opportunity to sing, dance, explore instruments, and play! Music and movement activities promote brain development and connect us to our family and community. Music with Junebug takes place in the Celebrations Room on floor 2.
STEAM Time: Creative with Chlorophyll
STEAM Time: Creative with Chlorophyll
Learn more about plants and chlorophyll by experimenting with leaves and paper. 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.
Clay Creations
Clay Creations
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.
Member Party: Dinos in Space
Member Party: Dinos in Space
Dinosaurs are awesome. Space is awesome. Put them together and you get an epic mashup of titanosaur/starship proportions! MCM members are invited to direct their spaceships/time machines to the museum for a members-only night of science-inspired crafts, games, snacks, and more. Dinos in Space Special Activities
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Physicists start your engines! We're offering an expanded version of one of our most popular STEM programs. Come make a mini racecar out of wood and other upcycled materials and then see how it rolls and modify it to make it faster. Kids get a hands-on dive into physics as they explore how weight, aerodynamics, […]
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Physicists start your engines! We're offering an expanded version of one of our most popular STEM programs. Come make a mini racecar out of wood and other upcycled materials and then see how it rolls and modify it to make it faster. Kids get a hands-on dive into physics as they explore how weight, aerodynamics, […]
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Race Car Rally in the Wonderground
Physicists start your engines! We're offering an expanded version of one of our most popular STEM programs. Come make a mini racecar out of wood and other upcycled materials and then see how it rolls and modify it to make it faster. Kids get a hands-on dive into physics as they explore how weight, aerodynamics, […]