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Featured Upcoming Event on April 2 at 1:00 pm
Fertile Minds: Children Belong in the Garden with Lara Litchfield-Kimber
Gardens are incredible learning landscapes—especially for children. Gardening encourages the development of critical early learning skills in young children. For older students, gardens provide dynamic learning environments in which to explore math, science, history, and culture. This presentation invites you to reimagine traditional gardens as powerful living classrooms.
Bio: Lara Litchfield-Kimber earned her BA from Amherst College and her MS from Cornell University. Formally trained in the agricultural sciences as a plant pathologist, Lara left research and teaching to become an entrepreneur, starting Fertile Minds, Inc., an informal science education group in Ithaca, NY, that developed children’s gardens to teach math and science. She joined the science center field in 2004 at Ithaca’s Sciencenter and later served as the executive director of the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie, NY, for nine years before coming to the Upper Valley in January 2022 to assume the role of executive director of the Montshire Museum of Science.
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Special Event(s) for starting 02/16/2020
Twelfth Night Theater Production by Hanover High Footlighters
2:00 PM
The Montshire is pleased to host Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, presented by the Hanover High School Footlighters. The show will take place outdoors,…
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens, Teachers
Location: Hughes Pavillion
Cost: Free (members), $10.00 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsVirtual Author Talk with David Macaulay
4:00 PM
Join us for a virtual conversation with award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. Signed copies of his new book, Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our…
Audience: Adults, Families
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Registration is now closed
View Event DetailsA Day of Air Play
10:00 AM
Toss parachutes from our balcony, launch rockets, and build a variety of flying, gliding, and floating projects as you explore the Montshire’s Air Works exhibition. It’s…
Audience: Children, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsBeautiful Bugs
10:00 AM
Explore the wonderful world of bugs! Meet a variety of live insects that can even inpire you as you create your own beautiful artwork to take home.
Audience: Children, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsAuthor Talk: First Steps
7:00 PM
First Steps explores the unusual and extraordinary nature of walking on two legs. A seven-million-year journey to the very origins of the human lineage, First Steps shows how…
Audience: Adults
Location: via Zoom; information to follow after registration
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsFiddlehead Fling Reimagined: A Virtual Event
7:00 PM
This fresh take on the Montshire’s annual benefit event relocates from the museum galleries to the Zoom room. This virtual evening event includes a gift box of culinary…
Audience: Adults
Location: Via Crowdcast
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsDino Drive-In, featuring Jurassic Park
7:30 PM
Join us for a screening of Jurassic Park at the Fairlee Drive-in in Fairlee, Vermont. Enjoy a classic dinosaur movie with your family and friends, all under the summer night sky.
Audience: Adults, Families, Preteens and Teens
Location: Fairlee Drive-In Theater, 1809 US Route 5 N, Fairlee, Vermont
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsArchaeology Day
10:30 AM
Dig into science and history! Archaeology Day combines both science and history through a day of fun-filled activities. Enjoy a variety of activities that will help you discover…
Audience: Adults, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsA Day of Flight
Celebrate the power of air! Can it float? Does it glide? Will it fly? We’ll explore the concepts behind our Air Works exhibition and build a variety of contraptions that can…
Audience: Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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