December Family Saturdays

Name: December Family Saturdays
Start: 2024-12-14T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-14T17:00:00-05:00
Location: The Newark Museum of Art

Schedule

Sat Dec 14 2024 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Newark Museum of Art | Newark, NJ

Free with general admission tickets.
Join us for our Family Saturdays, where creativity and fun come together!
These hands-on activities are designed for children and their families to explore and enjoy together. We kindly ask that adults stay with their children throughout the session.
Timeline of Activities
11-11:45am | Creative Play: Shapes – Triangles, Circles, & Squares oh my!
Appropriate for ages 3-5.
Location: Engelhard Court
Shapes are the building blocks of everything around us! Let’s journey through the museum to discover bold shapes and then create a unique work of art!
12pm & 2pm | Planetarium Show: The Little Star That Could
Appropriate for ages 5+
Journey with Little Star as they travel through the Milky Way in search of planets and a name of their own.
1pm & 3pm | Planetarium Show: Navajo Skies
Appropriate for ages 12+
Watch and listen to a Navajo family teach their children and grandchildren about the night skies through story and music. Navajo Skies features authentic Navajo astronomy stories told in Navajo and English.
Note: According to traditional Navajo protocol, cultural stories of the Night Sky, including stories of the Sun, the Moon and the stars, can be told only during the winter months.
1-4pm | Family Drop-In: Celebrations
Appropriate for ages 5-12 and families.
Location: Engelhard Court
Explore how the museum’s collection reflects those joys and traditions of celebrations from around the world!
1-4pm | Imagination Station
Appropriate for ages 5+.
Location: Engelhard Court
Join us at Imagination Station and put your creativity to the test! Design prompts change weekly.
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Don’t leave the Museum without seeing our new family-friendly exhibition Animal Kingdom!