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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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Program(s) starting 04/06/2022
Homeschool Series: Aquatic Explorations ages 6-8 (3 part series begins)
10:30 AM
Explore our local aquatic world in this three-week series. Using microscope, we’ll learn about the aquatic insects and invertebrates found in ponds. We’ll also be introduced…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsHomeschool Series: Aquatic Explorations for ages 9-12 (3 part series begins)
1:00 PM
Explore our local aquatic world in this three-week series. Using microscope, we’ll learn about the aquatic insects and invertebrates found in ponds. We’ll also be introduced…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Designing with Ferns
1:00 PM
Learn about the diversity among ferns and how to use these plants in the garden. Speaker Leslie Duthie will also share the important ecological role of ferns in the landscape…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsMuseum Closed
10:00 AM
The Montshire is closed in preparation for it’s benefit event, the Fiddlehead Fling Gala.
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View Event DetailsFiddlehead Fling Gala 2022
6:00 PM
Join us for an evening of celebration, community, and philanthropy in support of the Montshire Museum of Science at the Fiddlehead Fling.
Audience: Adults
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsSpecial Exhibition Opens! Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion
10:00 AM
Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion is a unique interactive experience with full-size machines, constructed after an in-depth study of da Vinci’s designs by a group of…
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens, Teachers
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMake a Leonardo DaVinci Device
3:00 PM
Build and test a mini-machine based on the Machines in Motion summer exhibition.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMake a Leonardo DaVinci Device
3:00 PM
Build and test a mini-machine based on the Machines in Motion summer exhibition.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMake a Leonardo DaVinci Device
3:00 PM
Build and test a mini-machine based on the Machines in Motion summer exhibition.
Audience: Adults, Children, Families
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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