Looking for something fun for the whole family? A visit to the Museum is a great way to spend time together that's educational and interesting. Whether your kids come to the Museum's ARTREK summer camp or become members of the Museum's Art Squad, they'll be full of stories of the collection when you visit together. Family Festivals are held throughout the year to get the conversation going when you visit the PMA together.
Exhibition for Children: Child's Play
Ongoing
Looking for a fun place to bring your kids? The Portland Museum of Art fits the bill with Child’s Play, the Museum’s first interactive exhibition for kids and families. Child’s Play allows families to take a trip back into the 1800s with interactive displays just for kids. Kids can try on costumes and pretend to pose for a portrait, play with 19th-century games and toys, look at optical illusions, sketch curiosities, and entertain themselves with old-fashioned tongue twisters.
Youth Art Month Exhibition
February 27–April 4, 2010
This year the Portland Museum of Art is proud to celebrate 16 years of hosting the Maine Art Education Association’s annual Youth Art Month exhibition. This exhibition displays more than 100 works of art by students from around the state, in recognition of the value and importance art education plays in Maine schools. It is a treat each year to exhibit the work of these talented students—mark your calendars and make a special trip to the Museum to get an exciting glimpse of the future of the art world.
Celebration Reception
Saturday, March 6, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Free admission.
5:30 p.m.: Grades K-5 certificate presentation
6:30 p.m.: Grades 6-12 certificate presentation
Museum Art Camps
Monday, July 12 through Friday, July 16 ARTREK: Session 2 (ages 9-12)
Monday, July 19 through Friday, July 23 ARTREK: Session 3 (ages 6-8)
Family Festivals
Family Events
The Telling Room Comes to the Museum
The Telling Room and the Museum collaborate to paint pictures with words in the exhibition Objects of Wonder. Students will explore the subject of still life describing each intriguing object to a partnet in innovative, detailed language. Then share stories, poems, and ruminations at a reading at the Museum on a Friday afternoon. To register for this workshop, please visit the Telling Room\'s website, www.tellingroom.org.
Wednesdays, March 31 & April 7 Workshop for KidsFriday, April 9 Reading at the Museum