Learn how to plant beans, practice motor dexterity, and flex your creative skills while making bean seed necklaces to take home. This program is part of the annual Wisconsin Science Festival!
This event is free with general museum admission.
Taste test different types of locally-sourced apples, engage all your five senses, and discover which kind is your favorite! Practice fine motor skills by counting apple seeds—those are not recommended for snacking.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Learn to collect and preserve garden and flower seeds, just like early Wisconsinites who saved seasonally for the next year. Take a few seeds home to start your own garden next Spring.
Cabin Life invites you each week to try crafts and activities from the time of our historic 1840s log cabin. This event is free with general museum admission.
Get into some creepy crawly crafts and bring a little nature into your celebration of the season with pinecone spider decorations.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Learn the secrets of color-changing leaves and use plants plucked from our garden to create art with chlorophyll.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Embrace spooky season and discover the physics of flight! Create your very own tissue paper ghost and see what it takes to make them float in our wind tunnel.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Help make an ephemeral, collaborative art piece using things that grow in our garden.
This event is free with general museum admission.
Celebrate the changing seasons and engage your creativity with Autumn-themed gelli prints!
This event is free with general museum admission.
Join MCM Roadshow at Monroe Street Farmers Market. Get creative at our arts-and-crafts table and fort-building station, then browse local goods next to Edgewood College.
Madison Children’s Museum Roadshow brings mobile exhibits and maker activities to community events in Madison and the surrounding area. Create a miniature work of art to take home and get inventive with creative fort and structure building activities.
Madison Shakespeare Company, a longtime MCM Adult Swim partner, has grand plans for a 2024 summer production in the Wonderground! We need your help to test out the sights and sounds in the space. Join us Saturday, September 23, for a free short performance, including the world premiere of a new Shakespeare game, the competitive woo-pitching “Romeo and Juliet Balcony Battle” in which four aspiring Romeos compete for the heart of one Instant Juliet selected from the audience!
Folding chairs will be provided, but you may bring your own chair if you wish. You may also bring snacks and non-alcoholic beverages (no glass containers, please.) Event capacity is 100 audience members, no waitlist! Click the button below to reserve your free ticket.
Doors 4:30 (Wonderground gate, East Dayton Street)
Performance 5-5:45
Audience talkback 5:45-6:15
