Family Day: Summer Fun

Join us for a day of family-friendly activities in celebration of Red Grooms: Drawing “The Bookstore”! Go on a guided tour of the exhibition, make soft sculptures inspired by Grooms’s “sculpto-pictorama” characters, and make your own paper to start a book. Enjoy games in the courtyard, make your own model of a plant cell, and beat the heat making some ice cream!

Schedule:

11am–4pm — Family Art Workshop: Papermaking
11am–4pm — Family Art Workshop: Sculpto-Pictoramas
11am–4pm — Family Science Workshop: Tiny but Mighty Plant Cells
11am–4pm — Family Science Workshop: Instant Ice Cream
12:30pm — Planetarium Show: Earth, Moon, and Sun
1pm — Gilded Age Glenview: Historic Home Tour
2pm — Tour of Red Grooms: Drawing “The Bookstore”
2pm — Planetarium Show: The Sky Tonight
3pm — Gilded Age Glenview: Historic Home Tour
3:30pm — Planetarium Show: Moonbase: The Next Step

Limited Time Offer

This Sunday, August 18, in celebration of Family Day, all new and renewing family-level memberships will get one extra month FREE! In-person only. Learn more about membership here.