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!

  

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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.

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!

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Saturday, February 1
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Take a look behind the scenes at the museum! Tour labs and galleries. Enjoy hands-on activities. Meet staff and researchers.

Group of children and adults at a table with craft supplies.
Saturday, January 18
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Explore printmaking! Create prints for a community display in the museum, discover plant and animal communities, and try a gallery scavenger hunt.

Adult and child work on a craft project together.
Friday, January 17
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. January''s theme is Community!

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Thursday, December 19
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UA Museum of the North

Celebrate winter at the museum! Make winter crafts, investigate how animals and humans adapt to winter, and try a scavenger hunt. Drop in any time.

Adult and child sitting at a table with craft supplies in front of them.
Friday, December 13
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. December's theme is Hibernation!

Three children looking at archaeology artifacts on a table.
Monday, December 9
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Meet museum archaeologists in the lobby! See artifacts collected across the state.