3, 2, 1… blast off! Let’s learn about engineering a rocket in Bonnie’s Rocket by Emeline Lee, and then one astronaut’s journey to space in Through the Telescope: Mae Jemison Dreams of Space, written by Charles R. Smith Jr. and illustrated by Evening Monteiro. Together, sing space-themed songs, then build and test launch a rocket to see how high it can go! Join us for Science Story Time, an interactive...
3:30pm
3, 2, 1… blast off! Let’s learn about engineering a rocket in Bonnie’s Rocket by Emeline Lee, and then one astronaut’s journey to space in Through...
Audience: Children, Families
Location: Hughes Pavilion
Cost: $Free with membership or museum admission
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details10:30am
Who lives in the marsh? Learn about the animals and environment of a marsh when we read At the Marsh in the Meadow by Jeanie Megane...
Audience: Children, Families
Location: Hughes Pavilion
Cost: $Free with membership or museum admission
View Event Details10:30am
Join us for a nature discovery walk together along the trails of Montshire’s Healing Forest! Meet the museum educator on the terrace after checking in with...
Audience: Families
Cost: $Free with membership or museum admission
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details10:30am
This program is co-hosted by Vermont Hands & Voices. Join us for an hour of open play in the Play Grove! Arrive by 10:15 to gather...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details10:30am
What wonders can you find when you walk through the forest? Find out when we read The Everything Trail written by Meg Fleming and illustrated by...
Audience: Children, Families
Location: Hughes Pavilion
Cost: $Free with membership or museum admission
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details10:30am
Co-host: Waypoint Join us for an hour of open play in the Play Grove! Arrive by 10:15 to gather on the terrace for the 5-10 minute...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details10:30am
Join us for a nature discovery walk together along the trails of Montshire’s Healing Forest! Meet the museum educator on the terrace after checking in with...
Audience: Families
Cost: $Free with membership or museum admission
View Event Details1:00pm
As garden chores and harvests wind down for the season, it’s time to start preparing your garden for winter. UNH Extension Master Gardener Linda Hansen will...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details1:30pm
Ready to take your scientific illustrations to the next level? Learn science visualization techniques through careful observation of botanical, animal, and geologic specimens. Practice and refine...
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Teens, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details10:30am
From helicopter seeds to helicopters, our world is full of flying things. In this course, we will take to the air as we explore different principles...
Audience: Children
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details1:30pm
Get up close to see details in even the smallest of critters! In this course, we will use microscopes to study the anatomical structures, remarkable diversity,...
Audience: Children, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details10:30am
We’ve got boxes! We’ve got tools! Come create your own cardboard costume for Halloween, cosplay, or our very own Spooky Science during this all-weekend extravaganza. Try...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens, Teens, Tweens
Cost: $5
View Event Details10:30am
We’ve got boxes! We’ve got tools! Come create your own cardboard costume for Halloween, cosplay, or our very own Spooky Science during this all-weekend extravaganza. Try...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens, Teens, Tweens
Cost: $5
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details1:00pm
Did you know New Hampshire has over 110 documented butterfly species? Using data from local butterfly counts, Amy Highstrom of the Sunapee Butterfly Club will discuss...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details6:30pm
For the first After Dark of the season, help celebrate the birthday of Marie Curie, (born on November 7, 1867), with investigations into radioactivity! Bring yourself,...
Audience: Adults
Cost: $20
View Event Details10:00am
Co-host: The Family Place Join us in Wonder Woods, have some fun and make connections with other families with young children. Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers, and their...
Audience: Children, Families
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details1:00pm
Preservationist and designer Bill Noble maintains that the gardens that speak to him most are those made by gardeners who create eloquent and functional spaces that...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details1:30pm
Will you go to space in your lifetime? For the first time in history, the answer is–maybe. But how did we get here? In this course,...
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Teens, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details10:30am
Observe matter changes right before your eyes! This experiment-driven course will explore the properties of matter: solid, liquid, gas through learning about the water cycle. Students...
Audience: Children
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details1:30pm
How do you engineer a paintbrush? This course draws connections between art, science, and technology. We will experiment with non-traditional methods of painting, build a drawing...
Audience: Children, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details6:30pm
An After Dark all about darkness, death, decay and decomposition. Bring yourself, a date, a buddy, or a group, for this adults-only night. Ages 21+ only,...
Audience: Adults
Cost: $20
View Event Details1:00pm
From a bare cornyard by a barn to a formal haven of plants and flowers, Diana McNamara will discuss how she created a garden on a...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details1:00pm
Often overlooked as ubiquitous dwellers of forest understories, ferns are the second largest group of land plants, comprising diverse and important components of our New Hampshire...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details1:30pm
How do scientists study plate tectonics? Delve into global geology as we understand the science of, and data behind, plate tectonics. Use models to make predictions...
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Teens, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details10:30am
Experiment with artmaking while using your science brain! Use plants to make art, the sun to photograph, paint with magnets, and engineer a sculpture. Students will...
Audience: Children
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details1:30pm
Look up in the night sky and you see that satellites abound. But how did we get here? In this course, we will trace the history...
Audience: Children, Tweens
Cost: $100 – 200
View Event Details6:30pm
It's close enough to pi day that we'll be celebrating this delightful irrational constant and other mathematical curiosities (the possibilities are infinite!). Bring yourself, a date,...
Audience: Adults
Cost: $20
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details1:00pm
You’re ready to plant native species in your garden to support wildlife. As you plan, you might have some questions. Which plant species support pollinators? Does...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details1:00pm
Whether grown for foliage, fragrance, or culinary purposes, herbs are a welcome addition to new and existing garden spaces and containers. UNH Extension Advanced Master Gardener...
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details9:00am
Sensory Friendly Hours are a time for a quieter and less-crowded visit to the Montshire. During these hours, the Montshire will offer: Fewer visitors Reduced sound...
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
View Event Details