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
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
Museum Auditorium

Enjoy a movie in the museum auditorium! Movie offerings change on a regular basis. Included with museum admission.

Three sketches in colored pencil, showing a stack of TVs, a map of a lake, and a person wearing a hoodie.
April 27th, 2024 – April 27th, 2025
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.

A squirrel climbing up the trunk of a tree.
Saturday, April 19
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Discover the forests of Interior Alaska! Meet botanists, investigate what trees can tell us about our history, explore cultural connections to trees, create forest art, and more.

White text on a pink background: 2025 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Annie Wenstrup.
Thursday, April 17
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UA Museum of the North Auditorium

Join us in the museum auditorium for a public reading featuring local author Annie Wenstrup. Part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.

Three children at a table, building with Legos.
Saturday, April 12
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Reichardt Building, UAF Campus

Experiment with hands-on science fun at this UAF event. Explore aurora art and science with the museum!

Two adults and two children sit at a table making a birch tree collage.
Friday, April 11
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. April's theme is Trees!

White text on a orange background: 2025 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Joy Castro & Brook McClurg.
Thursday, April 3
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UA Museum of the North Auditorium

Join us in the museum auditorium for a public reading featuring authors Joy Castro and Brook McClurg. Part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.

Three moose, including an adult and two babies, cross a snowy field.
Saturday, March 22
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Explore the world of Alaska moose! Meet moose experts, see specimens, investigate the role of moose in Alaska cultures, create your own moose art, and more.