Bring your little ones to our fall workshop and celebrate "Harvest Time". Come and build an apple tree, dig potatoes, and make Indian corn shakers. Other activities include books about harvest time, educational puzzles, and little farm animals to play with. Children may also make turkey crafts to take home for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. […]

What are our senses? Why are they important? What parts of our brain 'make sense' of sensory information? Come learn the answers to these and other questions with fun and interactive activities with St. Lawrence University Neuroscientist Ana Estevez.

Ask a poet, any poet! We wager our words, veer our verbs, and tackle turmoil! In this program, kids work with local poet and musician, St.Pierre, and learn the basics of stanzas and wordplay through a North Country lens. We’re tapping into our noggins here, folks! Pulling inspiration from our homes, families, and the great […]

Holiday Shopping and Sampling at Maple Run Emporium in Potsdam on Friday, December 1st from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Come celebrate the holiday season and support the museum! Admission is $15 per person with all proceeds donated to NCCM. Enjoy live music with Crane faculty Marsha Baxter, watch artist-in-residence, wood-turner Jan Close at work, […]

Learn how to be a radio personality! In this hands-on workshop in NCPR's studios, children will learn how to interview each other with microphones and recorders, and will help edit their work into a radio story. Workshop led by the NCPR news and production team. Taught by David Sommerstein.

A working electronic piano made out of bananas? A functioning drum set created with Play-Doh? Turning your body into a guitar? In this hands-on workshop, children will learn how to design and play electronic musical instruments with everyday devices. Taught by Jerod Sommerfeldt & Emmett J O'Leary from the Crane School of Music.

Like kids, animals and insects love to play hide and seek! Come learn about how some of nature’s most interesting creatures use visual elements to blend into their environment. We will explore drawing through shape, color, pattern, and texture to create our own camouflage creatures to place within our imagined environments. Taught by Liza Labarge.

Come explore forces at play in our universe, and how we are effected by them.

Description:How was the Sistine Chapel painted? Come paint upside down after this quick Art History lesson.