Winter hours: Wed–Sun, 9 am–4 pm • Free Thurs nights, 4 pm–8 pm • Get museum tickets
Winter hours: Wed–Sun, 9 am–4 pm • Free Thurs nights, 4 pm–8 pm • Get museum tickets
Join Junko and Abby in the Wonderground each Wednesday for movement and music games!
This event is free with general museum admission.
Join Abby and special guest Lexie in the Wonderground this Wednesday for movement and music games!
This event is free with general museum admission.
Explore the world of music and rhythm! Join Tim each week to enjoy play-based songs, games, and stories.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Explore the world of music and rhythm! Join Tim each week to enjoy play-based songs, games, and stories.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Explore the world of music and rhythm! Join Tim each week to enjoy play-based songs, games, and stories.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Explore new materials and creative techniques through facilitated art activities and bring home hand-made treasures. Projects vary each week and may include sculpture, painting, comics, printmaking, and more!
This event is free with general museum admission.
What’s better than holiday melodies floating through the museum on a Sunday afternoon? Enjoy a performance on the second floor with talented young pianists from Edgewood High School.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Are your kids not quite ready to stay up until midnight? Bid farewell to 2024 with the most bedtime-friendly New Year’s Eve party in Madison! This free dance party begins at 2 pm, with early New Year’s countdowns at 2:30, 3, and 3:30 pm.
Bundle up and boogie down in the Wonderground with family-friendly DJ beats. Embrace the arrival of the new year with party favors, festive beverages, Auld Lang Syne, a 2025 photo opportunity, and Madison’s only Human Ball Drop featuring Stephanie Richards of Madison Circus Space.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Join Laurie and our Art Studio staff for a weekly drop-in art experience designed for MCM’s youngest visitors and their caregivers. Through open-ended & process-based projects, empower your little artist to freely explore materials and art-making with their senses. And the best part? We take care of cleanup!
Today we’ll “make and take” creations created with simple cinnamon dough to celebrate the season. Please note, these are non-toxic but NOT edible! There is glue in the formula, so please smell but don’t taste.
This event is free with general museum admission.
¡Únete a Nuestro Taller Creativo Bilingüe para Niños, Aventuras en Español! Trae a tus hijos a nuestro Taller Creativo para Niños, una experiencia bilingüe donde podrán hablar en español mientras crean y se divierten.
Los niños podrán decorar su propio marco de madera y ¡les tomaremos una foto Polaroid especial para colocar dentro! Deja que su creatividad brille mientras diseñan pulseras con cuentas de colores, perfectas para regalar a alguien especial. Después de crear, los niños podrán envolver sus creaciones con papel colorido, cintas y pegatinas. Los niños también pueden hacer regalos con dibujos y mensajes cariñosos para compartir con otros niños de la comunidad. ¡Vamos a compartir amor y bondad!
Este taller es una excelente oportunidad para que los niños hablen en español mientras exploramos la creatividad en un entorno bilingüe.
Join our creative bilingual kids workshop, Aventuras en Español!
Bring your kids to our reative creative kids workshop “Gifts from the Heart” – a bilingual experience where they can practice their Spanish while creating and having fun! Kids can get creative by painting and decorating their own wooden frames, and we’ll even take a special Polaroid picture to put inside! Let their imaginations shine as they string together beads to make their own beautiful bracelets, perfect for gifting to someone special! After crafting, kids can wrap their creations with colorful paper, ribbons, and stickers.
Kids can also create gifts with heartfelt drawings and messages to share with other children in the community. Let’s spread love and kindness this season! This workshop is a wonderful opportunity for kids to speak in Spanish as we explore creativity together in a bilingual setting.
