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Pre-registration is not required unless noted. Adults must accompany children.
For more information, please call 973.971.3718
Thursdays 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
All ages
$4/child for members; $5/child for non-members
Join museum educators to create your own art project. Drop-in anytime during the session to participate.
July 1 Celebrate July 4th by creating a noise maker
July 15 Recreate the view from a ship's porthole
July 29 Make fingerprint flowers
Aug 26 Egg Carton Bug
Saturday, Noon - 2:00 p.m.
Ages 5+
Free for members; non-members: $3/child plus museum admission
Families are invited to drop-in and participate in science workshops. Children will be introduced to the scientific method as they do experiments and observe the results.
July 10 Good Vibrations
Make a guitar with a box and rubber bands.
July 17 Stability
What makes buildings stable? Children will learn about the internal design of buildings while creating a structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows.
The third Fridays of every month at 10:00 a.m.
Free with museum admission
Looking for something fun and educational to do with your young child? This program is for very young children and their caregivers. Activities include a mini gallery tour and an art project.
July 16 Music and Motion
Children will explore the Guinness Gallery and learn about the museum's collection of music boxes and automata. The group will listen to different instruments as they are played by a museum educator.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
See Special Family Events page for details
Monday, July 19
Wednesday, July 21 and
Friday, July 23
10:00 a.m. - 12 noon
$100/members; $110 non-members
This is an intensive 3-day photography course for teens 13 - 18. Professional photographer Nancy Ori will discuss different photography techniques including camera handling, film selection, and exposure. Subject matter, composition, and lighting will also be discussed. Students will work in both color and black and white photography. There will be assignments for each session, and the program will conclude with a critique of the works produced. Students should bring their cameras and instruction booklets to the first class. Light morning refreshments will be served. Registration is required. Please call 973.971.3718 to pre-register.
Saturday, July 24, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
$50/members; $60/non-members
Pale Afternoon, W. Carl Burger
W. Carl Burger, master watercolorist and professor emeritus of Fine Art at Kean University, will share his unique and adventurous approaches to watercolor. Burger will demonstrate his techniques and work with participants as they sketch and paint. All skill levels welcome. Participants must bring their own supplies; a materials list will be provided upon registration. Light morning refreshments will be served. Registration is required. Please call 973.971.3720 to register.
Thursday, July 22, 6:30
FREE
Join Dorothy Hartman, Vice President, Planning & Programs, Ellis Island Institute, for a discussion of the restoration project that is underway to restore and beneficially use the remaining thirty buildings at Ellis Island.
Saturday, August 7, 10 a.m. - noon
$15 members/$20 non-members
Everyone has a story to tell! Have you ever wanted to start writing down your personal recollections to leave a legacy for your family or start a narrative memoir, but weren't sure how? Lou Alexander, a retired New Jersey teacher and current Adjunct Professor of Education at Rutgers, Seton Hall, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, will take you through the steps of memoir writing and becoming a self-published author. Alexander has written his own memoir, Echoes from a Small Country Town, about growing up through the 1930's and 1940's in Lake George, New York.
Light morning refreshments will be served. Pre-registration is required. Please call 973.971.3718 to register.
1 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Visit the Morris Museum for an early afternoon of art and conversation with the museum staff. Each program will include a highlights tour through a featured exhibition, engaging discussion in the galleries, and light refreshments. Pre-registration is not required.
July 16 Save Ellis Island (Photography of Ellis Island)
August 6 The Shoe Must Go On!
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