The Springfield Museums' Summer Festival Days will continue July 27 through 31 with "Celebrate Mexico." Activities are free with the price of museum admission unless noted.

Monday, July 27

Make your own maraca, a rattle-type musical instrument, noon-3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, July 28

Performance: Across the Americas: A Musical Journey, by Roger Tincknell, 1 p.m.

Wednesday, July 29

Meet “TAM,” the Transparent Anatomical Manikin, 11:30 a.m.

Performance: The Day it Snowed Tortillas, by the Crabgrass Puppet Theater, 1 p.m.

Thursday, July 30

Make a welcome ristra (a string of paper peppers) or a fiesta hat magnet, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Friday, July 31

Meet “TAM,” the Transparent Anatomical Manikin, 11:30 a.m.

Performance: Latin Travels, a musical journey through Central and South America with Aaron Larget-Caplan, 1 p.m.

Daily:

See the special exhibit Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body (additional fee)

Hands-on Family Science Adventures, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Planetarium shows, 11:15 a.m., noon, 1 & 2 p.m., Science Museum (additional fee).

Crafts and Costumes in the Art Discovery Center, noon-3:45 p.m.

Art activities, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (Tues.-Fri.)

Future programs in the “Summer Festival Days” series are:

·         August 3-7 – Grimm’s Fairy Tales

·         August 10-14 – Weird and Wacky Science

“Summer Festival Days” are funded in part by Western Massachusetts Electric Company.  The performance of The Day it Snowed Tortillas is funded by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.