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Lara Litchfield-Kimber, plant pathologist and executive director of the Montshire Museum of Science.

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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Events starting 11/11/2021

Nov
11
Program

Science Story Time: Leafcutter Ants

10:30 AM

We’ll read the book Are You an Ant? by Judy Allen to learn all about an ant’s life. Afterwards you’ll have a chance to see the museum’s live colony of leafcutter ants as…

Audience: Families, Science Story TIme

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Nov
18
Program

Science Story Time: Float Your Boat

10:30 AM

Build, test, and sink your own boat as we learn about balance and weight (along with the silly antics of some cute critters) in Pamela Allen’s Who Sank the Boat?

Audience: Families, Science Story TIme

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Nov
26
Special Event

Shop, Save, Explore!

10:00 AM

Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store

Audience: Adults, Families

Location: Museum Store

Cost: Free

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Nov
27
Special Event

Shop, Save, Explore!

10:00 AM

Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store

Audience: Adults, Families

Location: Museum Store

Cost: Free

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Nov
28
Special Event

Shop, Save, Explore!

10:00 AM

Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store

Audience: Adults, Families

Location: Museum Store

Cost: Free

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Nov
28
Special Event

Montshire Business Partnership Employee Appreciation Days

10:00 AM

Visit the Montshire to enjoy free admission and 25% savings on all Museum Store purchases for Montshire Business Partnership employees!

Audience: Adults, Families

Cost: Free

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Nov
29
Special Event

Shop, Save, Explore!

10:00 AM

Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store

Audience: Adults, Families

Location: Museum Store

Cost: Free

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Nov
29
Special Event

Montshire Business Partnership Employee Appreciation Days

10:00 AM

Visit the Montshire to enjoy free admission and 25% savings on all Museum Store purchases for Montshire Business Partnership employees!

Audience: Adults, Families

Cost: Free

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Dec
02
Program

Science Story Time: Shape of Things

10:30 AM

Explore how shapes, from rectangles to circles, can be transformed into endless combinations in Dayle Ann Dodds’ book The Shape of Things. We’ll practice combining and…

Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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