The first week of summer camp here at the Museum & Theatre was full of wild fun! Louisa and Meghan guided Science Safari campers as they delved into different animal themed adventures everyday; from the plains of Africa to dinosaur facts and fossils. Activities included meeting live owls and other animals, and an amazing 3-D nature photography show, [...]
During Tuesday’s Tall Tales program, I wrote this AWESOME story with four lovely co-authors: Emilia, Beatrice, Maeve and Annie. “The Wizard, the Princess and the Dragon Once upon a time there was a wizard named Owen. And he had a pet dragon named Magic. Rapunzel married Owen! They lived in a castle in the woods. A big bear [...]
Galen is our artist in residence, and will be spending time weekly at the Museum prototyping and testing out ideas for a series of works that he will be installing in SmartArt, our current science exhibit. He’ll install the first piece today at 4:00. As an artist in residence, he’ll be spending a lot of [...]
We were excited to welcome a lot of dads to the Museum & Theatre of Father’s Day – and they were excited to spend an afternoon playing with their children. It was a great day to learn, explore, and just be silly together! Offering free admission for dads on Father’s Day (and for moms on [...]
Teacher? Lawyer? Doctor? Business Consultant? Barbee Gilman could have been anyone of these but instead has decided to stay home while her children are still school-aged and devote her time to her family, her community, volunteerism and leading the Children’s Museum & Theatre Board of Directors. As a passionate friend of the Museum & Theatre [...]
I get to explore a different country each month for my snack-sampling program, Cultural Cuisine. Nigeria is our featured culture for June – we’re changing up We Are Maine to include Nigerian drums, costumes, masks, groceries, and more! Be sure to check out the changes, as well as family pictures of the Mokemes, our We [...]
The Old Port Festival is this Sunday, June 13 from 11am-5pm. We’re going to be there (rain or shine!) in Post Office Park with fun family activities! You can make your own Nigerian mask, have your face painted, play some fun games and help create our enormous butterfly chalk drawing. We’ll be making two different [...]
It’s probably apparent that the staff at the Museum & Theatre love the intersection of science and art. Our new exhibit SmartArt demonstrates this along with programs like my Saturday series Where Science Meets Art. Where else in the Museum do we exhibit this interest? Our camera obscura, of course! For thousands of years people [...]
We were very fortunate and so excited to host 2 performances of Enburi on Monday and Tuesday. Thanks to the Maine Aomori Sister State Advisory Council and the United States Nippon International Friendship Group, performers traveled all the way from Japan to share traditional dance and music with us. The performers interacted with the audience [...]
I ran another Tall Tales program this weekend and a young visitor, Alex, knew so much about animal adaptations that we decided to put together this story. I hope you enjoy it. “Once upon a time there was a fox and a turtle. Then two owls appeared and one was a Snowy owl and a [...]