Arts and Culture

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.

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.

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

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.

December Selection: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.

Come get creative at Collins!

Join the Collins Branch Library in collaboration with the Cambridge Climate Leaders Initiative for a monthly discussion of a climate-related topic.

December Selection: The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger.