Events by Date
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Join us as local young magician Rupayan Neogy shares his talents with us! Showcasing a variety of tricks, he will confound and amaze in an interactive performance geared toward family audiences. For more information about Rupayan’s...
1:00 PM
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Join us for hands-on educational activities about nanoscale science, engineering and technology. Can you see something that is invisible? Can you guess a mystery shape? Find out as you explore the nano in your everyday life and discover...
Drop-in 1:30-4:30 PM
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Water and oil don’t mix. But watch what happens when you add the fizz factor! Double, double, toil and trouble. © 2013 WGBH Educational Foundation. Sponsored by Genzyme and MathWorks.
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Explore sound through singing and playing. Move, make music, listen, learn, and get a multi-sensory workout! Music improves your child’s memory, cognitive development, learning skills, and ability to express emotion. Plus, it’s...
10 AM
Join us with free admission and explore the museums at night on the first Friday of every month! We will gratefully accept donations for the Acton Food Pantry. Sponsored in part by Emerson Hospital with additional support from...
4:30-8:30 PM
Would you or your child like to learn how to write a cool game or application for the iPhone or iPad? Learn the basics of iOS programming from a local 13-year-old who taught himself and has published apps in the App Store, which are used...
1:00 - 2:00 PM
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Join with others and build a variety of roller coaster marble runs in our education room. Engineer tracks with tubes, cardboard, and wooden pieces to create your own or add to a community marble run. Sponsored by Genzyme
Drop-in 1:30-4:30 PM
Moms—and grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and others—are amazing and spectacular! Create a work of art using a beautiful flower as your paintbrush to take your home with a special message for mom about staying healthy and strong....
10 AM
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Bring your “play clothes” for this messy activity because we’re recreating the art of Jackson Pollack today! *This activity is weather dependent.
Drop-in 10 AM
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Celebrate our Grand Old Flag by making a perfectly patriotic painting in beautiful red, white and blue.
10 AM
What do you get when you put a paper tube and a ruler together? Build a tabletop seesaw and teach it some new tricks. Whoever thought seesaws could be so tricky?
© 2013 WGBH Educational Foundation. Sponsored by Genzyme and MathWorks.
Drop-in 1:30-4:30 PM
It’s a giant pile of dirt! Scoop, sculpt, squish! Dig, climb, burrow! Mud pies, mud paintings, mud this, and mud that. Bring your boots and prepare to get messy! Join us as we discover the infinite potential...
Drop-in 10AM-12PM & 1PM-4PM
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Moms—and grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and others—are amazing and spectacular! Explore textures and colors while making a beautiful work of art using sponges to take your home with a special message for mom about staying...
10 AM
Water and oil don’t mix. But watch what happens when you add the fizz factor! Double, double, toil and trouble. © 2013 WGBH Educational Foundation. Sponsored by Genzyme.
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Young children love to stop at construction sites and watch the progress of a new building being made. Make your own building or castle using boxes. Talk about the parts of the building and the materials used to make them. © 2013 WGBH...
Drop-in 10 AM
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination! Sponsored by MEFA’s U.Fund and Fidelity Investments.
11 AM
Are you curious about what’s inside your telephone, computer or camera? Discover resistors and capacitors as you uncover the inner workings of everyday objects. Sponsored by Analog Devices, Inc. and Genzyme.
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Join us for hands-on educational activities about nanoscale science, engineering and technology. Get ready for summer by making your own UV detecting bracelets and discover how UV beads change their color. Sponsored by Genzyme
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Join us for Free Friday Night Fun all summer! From June 21 – August 30, both museums will be open beginning at 4:30 p.m. with free admission. Bring a picnic dinner to picnic under the stars, and explore the museums at night. ...
4:30- 8:30 PM
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Over the last four hundred million years, oceans have come and gone across North America. Fossil finds from Indiana to New England provide a look the history of our continent as tectonic plates have moved and mountain ranges have grown....
Drop-in 2:00-4:00 PM
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Explore sound through singing and playing. Move, make music, listen, learn, and get a multi-sensory workout! Music improves your child’s memory, cognitive development, learning skills, and ability to express emotion. Plus, it’s...
10 AM
What do you get when you put a paper tube and a ruler together? Build a tabletop seesaw and teach it some new tricks. Whoever thought seesaws could be so tricky?
© 2013 WGBH Educational Foundation. Sponsored by Genzyme.
Drop-in 1:30-4:30 PM
Touch a real dinosaur fossil and pretend to be a paleontologist digging for dinosaur bones in our mock excavation site! Sponsored by MEFA’s U.Fund and Fidelity Investments.
10 AM
Imagine yourself a chemist and use real laboratory tools to do experiments. Try your hand at doing wet chemistry in a model glove box and learn why some chemists use glove boxes and hoods. Reaction Station is generously funded by the...
Drop-in 1:30-4:30 PM
Bubbles are fun summer activity! Join us today as we explore the interesting properties of bubbles and see if we can make a giant one! *This program is weather permitting, bubbles and rain don’t play well together. ©...
10 AM
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination! Sponsored by MEFA’s U.Fund and Fidelity Investments.
11 AM
Join us for Free Friday Night Fun all summer! From June 21 – August 30, both museums will be open beginning at 4:30 p.m. with free admission. Bring a picnic dinner to picnic under the stars, and explore the museums at night. ...
4:30- 8:30 PM
Help us celebrate our big, green dinosaur’s birthday with a weekend full of fun activities including a dinosaur dig, dinosaur egg hunt, live animals with the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, music from The Justin Meyer Swing Trio and a...
9 AM - 4 PM
Conduct your own paleontology dig in our giant outdoor sandbox. Bring a dinosaur and join in the fun! We’ll provide the sand, tools, and fossils.
All Day
Visit our face painting cart to decorate your cheek or hand with a colorful work of art!
All Day
Create a Fancy Party Hat and some noise makers in honor of Bessie the dinosaur’s special day. Then we will march around the museum and hold a special parade for our Birthday Girl!
Drop-in 10AM - 12PM
Come bring a picnic and your dancing shoes! It will be hard to keep your toes from tapping and your hands from clapping while listening to this fantastic group!
11 AM
Enjoy a unique opportunity to see native animals up close with a trained naturalist from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum. Learn about wild birds, reptiles, and mammals that live in your neighborhood. Handle natural history artifacts...
Drop-in 1:00- 3:00
Bessie loves when children color her with chalk. Afterwards, plenty of soap bubbles and sponges will be on hand to ensure our favorite dinosaur gets nice and clean. Don’t forget in between her toes!
All Day
Help us celebrate our big, green dinosaur’s birthday with a weekend full of fun activities including a dinosaur dig, dinosaur egg hunt, live animals with the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, music from The Justin Meyer Swing Trio and a...
9 AM - 4 PM
Conduct your own paleontology dig in our giant outdoor sandbox. Bring a dinosaur and join in the fun! We’ll provide the sand, tools, and fossils.
All Day
Visit our face painting cart to decorate your cheek or hand with a colorful work of art!
All Day
Come hunt for dinosaur eggs with Bessie, dinosaur mascot of The Discovery Museums! Dinosaur treasures are hidden inside each egg. The Special grand prize is a free membership to The Discovery Museums. What will you discover inside your...
10 AM
Join Tom Foote and Greg Nikitas at this silly, strumming, dancing, drumming celebration!
We'll make music together with plenty of drums and other instruments to share, plus our voices and bodies for singing-a-long, clapping, and stomping...
12 PM
Bessie loves when children color her with chalk. Afterwards, plenty of soap bubbles and sponges will be on hand to ensure our favorite dinosaur gets nice and clean. Don’t forget in between her toes!
All Day
Make some noise for Bessie’s Birthday! Discover the buzz about sound vibration while constructing a “sound sandwich” and other simple instruments. Can you play a tune for Bessie on her special day?
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00 PM
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