Open every day for winter break til Jan 5: Wed–Sun, 9 am–4 pm • Free Thurs nights, 4 pm–8 pm • Get museum tickets
Open every day for winter break til Jan 5: Wed–Sun, 9 am–4 pm • Free Thurs nights, 4 pm–8 pm • Get museum tickets
Meet up with MCM Roadshow at Kennedy Elementary PTO’s Family Science Night! Check out their Facebook page for more details, and donate via Venmo.
Madison Children’s Museum Roadshow brings mobile exhibits and maker activities to community events in Madison and the surrounding area.
Join Ms. Laurie and our art studio staff for a weekly drop-in art experience designed especially for our youngest visitors and caregivers. Little artists can explore materials and art making with their senses through open ended process-based projects. Best of all, we do all the cleanup!
Today, we’ll use fragrant and festive cinnamon clay to create peppy holiday decorations. 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. Photo credit: Jean Van’t Hul
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 paint with jangly, joyful jingle bells.
This event is free with general museum admission.
This playgroup is thoughtfully designed for our earliest visitors. We will provide a space for infants and toddlers (2 years and under) and their caregivers to explore and play together, and engage in activities that support various aspects of child development. Parents and caregivers will have the opportunity to connect with one another over a variety of topics. Come meet other families and make new friends!
This event will be held in the Celebrations Room and is free with general museum admission.
This playgroup is thoughtfully designed for our earliest visitors. We will provide a space for infants and toddlers (2 years and under) and their caregivers to explore and play together, and engage in activities that support various aspects of child development. Parents and caregivers will have the opportunity to connect with one another over a variety of topics. Come meet other families and make new friends!
This event will be held in the Celebrations Room and is free with general museum admission.
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. Today, we’ll enjoy a special winter concert with MCM staff ringing bellplate renditions of your favorite holiday tunes.
This event is free with general museum admission.
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. Today, we’ll enjoy musical storytime with talented MCM staff on piano and flute, accompanying the story The Snowy Day.
For today’s Music with Junebug location, please ask at the desk! This event is free with general museum admission.
Today, MCM Roadshow will join the Progress Center for Black Women for holiday fun and photos with Santa at Madison College’s Goodman South Campus.
Find more details and register here for Saturday’s event at Madison College:
https://www.centerforblackwomen.org/events/day-1-6th-annual-photos-with-santa/
This is one of two opportunities to snap a jolly photo with Santa, so if you miss your chance today, come on down to Madison Children’s Museum on Sunday, Dec 8 from 10 am–2 pm.
Celebrate 50 years of public art and community art-making made possible by the Madison Arts Commission. Join us for a FREE celebration including performances by Madison Circus Space performers and hands-on art-making with artists TetraPAKMAN, Lesley Anne Numbers, Angelica Contreras, and Djam Vivie. Bring your dancing shoes–Madison-based band V05 will transport you back to MAC’s 1974 founding with disco hits for all ages!
Presented in partnership with Friends of Madison Arts Commission.
Join Ms. JoJean Retrum, Artistic Director of Dance Wisconsin, for a reading of Plum accompanied by dancers from Dance Wisconsin’s upcoming production of the Nutcracker. Plum, by Sean Hayes and Scott Icenogle, is a holiday story of magic and inclusion that introduces some of the Nutcracker story and tells children how the Sugar Plum Fairy got her wings.
Discover how pantomime plays a large part in storytelling ballet and get an introduction to some of the movements used in the Nutcracker ballet. Dancers from Dance Wisconsin will perform excerpts from the Nutcracker including Clara, the Nutcracker, a Marzipan candy and more!
Dance Wisconsin’s full-length production of the Nutcracker will be performed on December 21st and 22nd at 2:00 PM at the Wisconsin Union Theater, Shannon Hall.
