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The Montshire will be open for regular hours (10am - 5pm) on Sunday, March 31, 2024. ❁ ❀ ✿
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.
View Details10:30 AM
Join a Montshire science educator for a drop-in activity on the Science Park Terrace, where you can do everything from building boats to exploring fossils, using a microscope to touching giant cockroaches. One family at a time.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Location: Science Park Terrace
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details1:30 PM
Spend the afternoon outside, while using a variety of medium - including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and pencils - to capture the incredible Vermont fall landscape! Bring…
Audience: Children, AVA Classes, Homeschoolers
Cost: $127.50 (members), $150 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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In this three-part series, explore insects, plants, and various natural processes such as decomposition and energy cycles. Use several types of microscopes and other tools to…
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details2:00 PM
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Location: Science Park Terrace
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details3:30 PM
Spend the afternoon outside, while using a variety of medium - including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and pencils - to capture the incredible Vermont fall landscape! Bring…
Audience: Children, AVA Classes, Homeschoolers
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details10:30 AM
Join a Montshire science educator for a drop-in activity on the Science Park Terrace, where you can do everything from building boats to exploring fossils, using a microscope to touching giant cockroaches. One family at a time.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Location: Science Park Terrace
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details2:00 PM
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Location: Science Park Terrace
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details10:00 AM
This one-day Plein Air workshop will focus on painting the spectacular woods and water of the Montshire Museum’s beautiful campus. The class will begin with a demonstration by…
Audience: Adults, AVA Classes
Cost: $153 (members), $180 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details10:30 AM
Join a Montshire science educator for a drop-in activity on the Science Park Terrace, where you can do everything from building boats to exploring fossils, using a microscope to touching giant cockroaches. One family at a time.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Location: Science Park Terrace
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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