The Springfield Museums have announced their slate of activities for the upcoming holiday vacation week. Visitors can enjoy a combination of fun activities, planetarium shows, and performances by some of the region’s best family performers, as well as the popular Holiday Magic gingerbread exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum.
The Springfield Museums’ monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in December with the popular Museums à la Carte lectures, which take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Admission is $4 ($2 for members…
The Springfield Museums’ Culture & Cocktails series continues with a special evening titled Gingerbread, Magic, and Merriment on Thursday, December 8 from 5-8 pm at the Springfield Science Museum. Guests are invited to escape into a sugary and magical world…
On Friday, November 25, the Springfield Museums will kick off the holiday season with “Holiday Happenings,” an afternoon of family fun highlighted by the unveiling of this year’s entries in the annual Gingerbread Competition and Exhibit, which has become one…
The Springfield Museums today announced that it has received a $10,000 donation from Smith & Wesson in support of the Then & Now History Program, one of a number of on-site interdisciplinary learning experiences offered to local schoolchildren by the…
This week, a new exhibit is opening at the Springfield Museums that celebrates the dynamic leaders of what become known as the Civil Rights Movement. Created by artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, Icons of the Civil Rights Movement will open on Tuesday,…
In honor of Veteran’s Day, the Springfield Museums is offering free general admission to veterans and active duty military on Friday, November 11. At the time of entry, visitors who show a military ID documenting that they are active duty,…
The Springfield Museums have been awarded a Museums for America grant of $106,592 from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to restore and stabilize twenty Tiffany stained glass windows at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum…
The Springfield Museums’ monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in November with the popular Museums à la Carte lectures, which take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
This fall, the Springfield Museums will host a unique and imaginative exhibit that will bring together original graphic novel art from the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series with colorful Japanese woodblock prints depicting samurai warriors and examples of 19th century armor and swords used by actual samurai.