Members-Only Duckie Draw
Visit the Membership table in the Welcome Center for a chance to win one-of-a-kind museum experiences. Springfield Museums members only. One draw per family, per day.
Meet Pikachu
Catch the star of Pokemon Go! as he roams the galleries! Lures will be dropped all over the campus, so grab your smartphone, load up on poke balls and catch some wild Pokemon.
Looney Tunes
Meet popular Looney Tunes characters from our local amusement park and snap a selfie with them as they roam the galleries. Free with museum admission!
Interskate 91
The crew from the skating and fun center leads their favorite floor games, including Hot Potato, Rowboat Races, Limbo and Four Corners. Free with museum admission!
Meet Boomer!
Meet a player from the Springfield Thunderbirds hockey team, and their mascot, Boomer. Take a shot in Thunderbird’s inflatable hockey game.
Performance: Barefoot Puppets
Can a spider defeat an elephant at tug-of-war? Overpower a python? Capture a cloud of hornets? With Anansi the Spider, world famous trickster, all things are possible…if you only have a plan!
Fun & Games in the Galleries
Pokemon Go!, 10 am-5 pm We’ll be dropping 3 lures per day across our campus. Grab your smart phone, load up on pokeballs, and start searching! Design Your Own Board Game, 11 am-3 pm We’ll provide boards, spaces, spinners, and cards – everything you need to get started to create and play your very own board game!
Art Discovery Playgroup
Come explore hands-on play and activity stations, make new friends, and learn about our world. Open to all children 0-5 with their caregivers. Activities may include dressing up in kimonos, light table play, changing art projects, a reading corner, a Tanabata wish tree, and Chinese New Year activities, and storytelling.
Africa Playgroup
Come explore hands-on play and activity stations, make new friends, and learn about our world. Open to all children 0-5 with their caregivers. Activities may include playing with Galimotos, building our own African Safari exhibit from Legos, printing Adinkra symbols, handling furs and skins from different animals featured in the museum’s Africa Hall, and creating a different clothespin animal each week.
Artist Lecture: Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
The artist behind the special exhibit Icons of the Civil Rights Movement provides insights into her work and her personal belief in the arts as a vehicle to achieving a more peaceful world. The exhibit features luminaries such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks presented in “Iconic” form (gold leaf with red background on wood panels) to represent the sacred nature of their sacrifice in the fight for racial equality.