Join us outdoors on Market Street for the Potsdam Summer Fest. Find our booth and have fun working with NCCM Arts Educator Liza on Chalk Drawing and Sun Prints.

Design Challenge: Make a Battery. Using everyday materials, work to make the strongest battery you can. Learn about the science of battery technology, and how the invention of batteries changed our world. Free for visitors and members.

Come learn about the colorful energetic shapes of glass artist Dale Chihuly! We will color pre-cut plastic and watch it curl into interesting shapes.

Make an edible ball of water using safe and biodegradable materials. Kids will play with strange ingredients that chefs use to bring STEM into the culinary world. Find out how water bombs help reduce plastic waste around the world. Free for visitors and members.

Do you love flowers? Do you wish you could keep the beauty of a flower all year long? Come experience the printing technique known as flower pounding. Using a hammer and fresh picked wild flowers, we will make gorgeous natural dye prints on fabric. We will supply a square piece of fabric for you to […]

Come experience the world of drama and visual arts and dive into the literature of Shel Silverstein. Build confidence, communication, collaboration, and creativity through this engaging camp. Learn about character development, set design, costume creation, poetry, mask and make-up, and theater improve with SUNY Potsdam Theater Faculty and NCCM arts educators. Grades 2 - 6 […]

Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world is crucial to brain development, so why not foster this growth here at the museum. Join us to create ‘sensory water bottles’ and let their sensory imagination take off.  

Learn about light refraction by making a kaleidoscope.

Constellations: Explore the night sky, and the folklore that drew connections between the stars. Families will learn about different constellations, their stories, and then make their own constellations projector. Join our wonderful intern Grace for this innovative program.

Children will safely explore chemical reactions through hands-on experiments with NCCM science educators and SUNY Canton Chemistry Faculty.  Anyone interested in rockets, fireworks, volcanoes, and exploding gummy bears is encouraged to sign up! Grades 2 - 6 Click Here to Register