Program Calendar

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Register by November 8! View the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts and the special exhibit William Merritt Chase featuring eighty of the painter’s finest works in both oil and pastel.

Come learn what she is up to at the Museums! Activities may include meeting a costumed character, face painting, magic, balloon animals, comedy, and getting to know the permanent collections. Free with museum admission! The Horace Moses Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Edith Cavell was a British nurse who was caught in the cross hairs of history. Defying the brutish German army in Belgium, she became a key link in the underground rescuing Allied soldiers. Her execution rallied the Allies into forming a more forceful defiance and ultimately brought the US into the war. Was Edith destined…

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!

Register by September 18! The Met’s monumental staging is a dazzling backdrop for Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, the star-crossed love story set amid the clash of ancient empires. En route, Guy McLain, Director of the Wood Museum of Springfield History will provide an enlightening lecture on the composer and artistry of this popular opera. A boxed…

Try simple and safe experiments as you make polymer pudding, yeasty balloons, a soda rocket, and “secret-ingredient” volcanoes! Have fun learning about atoms, polymers, and crazy chemical reactions. Best of all, you get to sample your edible concoctions! Dress for mess! Not recommended for children who are sensitive to milk or chocolate. Instructor: Debbie Naglieri-Prescod…

Tackle the challenging, but rewarding genre of rendering birds in watercolors.  Some of the specific areas we’ll focus on include texture, feathers, reflective surfaces like eyes and beaks, and underlying anatomy and the way it is affected by light and shadow. Some experience with watercolors is recommended. Most materials will be available for use or…

Explore the Science Museum and find the Roving Scientist. You never know what kind of demonstrations and hands-on activities they have in store for you! Free with museum admission!