Arts and Culture, Pools and Waterplays

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Grab your sketchbook and pencil to join an instructor to draw a live model! Advanced-level artists will be more comfortable in this program.

What might be learned about a work of art by looking at its verso, or reverse side?

Join Nature Linc Staff Member Lily Gordon to learn how to design, carve, and print your design onto cards using soft, easy to cut linoleum blocks.

Creative Colorful Creations on Fabric with Phyllis Wadlington.
Discover your creative side, working with different fabrics. Explore the possibilities of what can be painted on fabric.

Our Merlin Missions book group is for Magic Tree House fans ages 5-10 who are ready for these longer adventures about Jack and Annie!

Our Magic Tree House book group for kids ages 5-10 meets the first Friday of the month.

Please join the Cambridge Public Library and the American Repertory Theater for an afternoon of Wonder!

Enjoy time together with other parents, caregivers and babies to learn, play and develop language and motor skills. Recommended for children from birth to 18 months with their caregivers. 

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 15-20 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes. 

No registration is required. Please call 617-349-4019 for details.

Join us for stories, songs, and rhymes. For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Join us for a relaxing afternoon of cozy card making! All supplies included (except stamps) – but feel free to bring materials of your own to add to the fun.

Join us at the MIT Museum for a special film series exploring time travel through the lens of science fiction cinema.

An exhibition curator will lead this talk exploring how and why artists choose specific materials to express their ideas.

Susan Anderson will look at how artists working at the turn of the 20th century used dry media as a means towards abstraction.

Teens, don't let the cold weather get you down. Come to the Teen Room for pizza, snacks and crafts and relax. Bring your friends. And it's FREE. 

Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.

In this class you will be introduced to painting with watercolor, including techniques in

Creative Colorful Creations on Fabric with Phyllis Wadlington.

Discover your creative side, working with different fabrics. Explore the possibilities of what can be painted on fabric.

Explore ancient coins and learn how a team of museum staff and students is trying to harness the power of AI to recover stolen coins.

Join us for stories and a craft project! This month we will make paper dolls. 

For children of all ages and their grown-ups.