Discover & Create Together
Discover science, history, culture, and art through hands-on investigations, crafts,
and games. Activities are designed to stimulate curiosity and encourage multigenerational
collaboration. Come back every month to explore a new theme!
Programs included with admission.
Family membership gets you in for free all year long!
Family Programs Events
![Butterfly and moth specimens in a drawer.](https://uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/LepidopteraCollection.jpg)
UA Museum of the North website
Visit the UA Museum of the North from home with resources for all ages!
![Green aurora lights dance across the night sky.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/DynamicAurora.jpg)
Museum Auditorium
Enjoy a movie in the museum auditorium! Movie offerings change on a regular basis. Additional charge applies.
![Three children sitting at a table, working on a craft project.](https://uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/GeneralVirtualEarlyExplorers.jpg)
UA Museum of the North website
Create and discover with your family! Explore our archive of over 150 hands-on activities for all ages, designed to do at home.
![Three sketches in colored pencil, showing a stack of TVs, a map of a lake, and a person wearing a hoodie.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/exhibits/listing/2024/thinkingmadevisible/photos/Header.jpg)
Special Exhibits Gallery
Thinking Made Visible explores the human instinct to express thought through line, form, and color. It is an immersion in possibility and process - honoring and encouraging the practice of slowing down and spending time with an idea, an object, a place.
![Portraits highlighting six African American Alaskans from Fairbanks. Part of 44 portraits on exhibit at UAMN.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/exhibits/special-exhibits/23-black-in-alaska/SPEX_BlackinAlaska_WEB-01.png)
Special Exhibits Gallery
The Black in Alaska special exhibition at UAMN presents portraits, videos, and the stories of more than 40 Alaskans from Fairbanks and around Alaska.
![Person outside in a forest, holding a large screen with a number of insects and leaves on top.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/BugBootCampWorkshopCropped.jpg)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Practice skills to identify, photograph, sketch, and preserve bugs. Use a microscope to take close-up photos. For ages 13-18.
![Child and adult sitting at a table gluing butterfly pictures on paper.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/EarlyExplorersSpringCropped.jpg)
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UA Museum of the North
Drop in with your toddler or preschooler to create and discover with hands-on activities in the Creativity Lab. May's theme is Spring!
![A Compton's tortoiseshell butterfly on a yellow flower.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/JuniorCuratorsSpringCropped.jpg)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North
Create a model butterfly collection and learn to identify butterflies! Explore signs of spring in the boreal forest, see and touch museum objects, and try a scavenger hunt.
![Page of field sketching notebook. showing sketches of birds and seals.](https://www.uaf.edu/museum/education/family-programs/images/FieldSketchingWorkshop.jpg)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UA Museum of the North
Sharpen your observation skills. Explore sketching techniques inside and outside the museum. For ages 13-18.