Art meets craft on Saturday afternoons at MCM. Uncover the practice of ‘making’ through new themed projects every week. Learn alongside Art Studio Manager Laurie and her staff to use new tools, discover crafts from around the world, and create an art project to take home.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Join us each week for new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities. These hands-on programs foster creativity, ignite curiosity, encourage divergent thinking, increase problem-solving skills, and offer new ways for kids to explore the world around them.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Let’s make art together! Embrace the soft, squishy, smudgy, squelchy, spectacular sensory experiences of making art. Explore your creativity with activities centering texture, form, basic shapes, and colors. This program’s designed for the needs of our youngest artists, but is open to creative minds of all ages.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Be a cartoonist! Join Lexie during Thursday evening hours and learn about the art of cartooning, storytelling, and Pop-Art. Try illustration, collage, sculpture, and more interactive projects to create your very own cartooning portfolio that leaps off the page.
This event is free with the price of museum admission.
Come get swept up in the science of air currents. Test your own Handmade Flying Objects and see if they soar in our mini wind tunnel.
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.
This event is free with general museum admission.
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.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Use a splash of paint and faux lake fish to make colorful prints and learn to identify species in our local ecosystems.
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.
This event is free with general museum admission.
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 in the 1840s.
This event is free with general museum admission.
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 everything fit to print, get swept up in the science of air currents. Test your own Handmade Flying Objects and see if they soar in our mini wind tunnel.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Join us for a celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, featuring performances in the Wonderground by Zhong Yi Lion Dancers (5:30 pm), VIVID K-Pop Dance (6:30 pm), Beni Daiko Taiko Ensemble (6:35 pm), and cultural activities with the Hmong Institute in the Art Studio:
Admission is free from 4-8 pm. Food samples are available from Little Tibet, along with pay-what-you-can meals and snacks from Little John’s Lunchbox.
Free Nights at MCM are part of our Access for Everyone programs. The developmental benefits of play are critical to every child’s growth and the museum’s access programs ensure that all children and families are equipped with critical resources to succeed.
Free Nights at MCM are part of our Access for Everyone programs. The developmental benefits of play are critical to every child’s growth and the museum’s access programs ensure that all children and families are equipped with critical resources to succeed.
