Location The Common
april
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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to conduct an orchestra? A conductor’s job is to keep the music together, and to bring out the best sounds
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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to conduct an orchestra? A conductor’s job is to keep the music together, and to bring out the best sounds of the musicians performing. It is something very few people ever get the opportunity to do. Conduct Us! is your chance to experience leading a small orchestra, and no experience is necessary – you set the tempo!
Come back on June 23 to experience the next Conduct Us!
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 am - 11:45 am(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Slide, slip, and loop through tube, large rings, and other materials! Practice your fine motor skills by threading objects of different shapes and sizes together.
Program details
Slide, slip, and loop through tube, large rings, and other materials! Practice your fine motor skills by threading objects of different shapes and sizes together.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Join us to celebrate the Boston Kyoto Sister Cities 65th Anniversary through Taiko drumming performance, Shishimai lion dance & parade, Shikishi art making, Origami, and
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Join us to celebrate the Boston Kyoto Sister Cities 65th Anniversary through Taiko drumming performance, Shishimai lion dance & parade, Shikishi art making, Origami, and many more!
Don’t forget to visit the Japanese House exhibit – an authentic 140-year-old house. It was a very special gift from Kyoto to Boston on the 20th Anniversary of their Sister Cities relationship in 1979.
Activities (Please note that some programs have limited seating available)
- All day – Display of Haiku Expressions about My Family!, by Boston Public School Students & Japan Airline Foundation, the Common (Floor 2)
- 11:00 – Shishimai Lion Dance by Steve Long & Ako Hiratsuka, the Japanese House (3rd floor)
- 12:30 – Taiko Drumming workshop with Odaiko New England, the Common (2nd floor)
- 1:30 – Taiko Drumming Performance by Odaiko New England, the Common (2nd floor)
- 1:50 – Shishimai Lion Dance by Steve Long & Ako Hiratsuka, the Common (2nd floor)
- Visit the Japanese House! – See the Japanese House exhibit sign for opening hours (3rd floor)
Special thanks to our guests from Kyoto – Rotary Club of Kyoto South!
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 3:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Join us to celebrate the Boston Kyoto Sister Cities 65th Anniversary through Taiko drumming performance, Shishimai lion dance & parade, Shikishi art making, Origami, and
Program details
Join us to celebrate the Boston Kyoto Sister Cities 65th Anniversary through Taiko drumming performance, Shishimai lion dance & parade, Shikishi art making, Origami, and many more!
Don’t forget to visit the Japanese House exhibit – an authentic 140-year-old house. It was a very special gift from Kyoto to Boston on the 20th Anniversary of their Sister Cities relationship in 1979.
- All day – Display of Haiku Expressions about My Family!, by Boston Public School Students & Japan Airline Foundation, the Common (2nd floor)
- 10:00 – Shikishi Art – Japanese Calligraphy & Watercolor Workshop with Megumu Mabuchi, Art Lab (2nd floor)
- 11:00 – Shikishi Art – Japanese Calligraphy & Watercolor Workshop with Megumu Mabuchi, Art Lab (2nd floor)
- 12:00 – Shikishi Art – Japanese Calligraphy & Watercolor Workshop with Megumu Mabuchi, Art Lab (2nd floor)
- 1:00 – Message from Boston to Kyoto on a Giant Paper Crane with Guest Artist and Teacher Tim Nagaoka, the Common (2nd floor)
- 2:00 – Taiko Drumming Performance by Odaiko New England, the Common (2nd floor)
- 2:30 – Shikishi Art – Japanese Calligraphy & Watercolor Workshop with Megumu Mabuchi, Art Lab (2nd floor)
- Visit the Japanese House! – See the Japanese House exhibit sign for opening hours (3rd floor)
Special thanks to our guests from Kyoto – Rotary Club of Kyoto South!
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 3:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
Museum
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What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
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What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Monday) 10:00 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Tuesday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Wednesday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Thursday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Friday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Saturday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into
Program details
What’s your favorite play memory? Riding a bike outside? Camping out in a fort that you constructed? With blocks or dolls or games? Spring into Play at Boston Children’s Museum during April Vacation Week!
Cardboard Play! Create with cardboard, dress up and dance, and have a pretend tea party in a weeklong celebration of all things play. At Boston Children’s Museum, cardboard creations are more than boxes… they’re jetpacks! Ice cream trucks! A cave! A drumset! Or even a puppet theater! Join us for Spring into Play Week!
Time
(Sunday) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Slide, slip, and loop through tube, large rings, and other materials! Practice your fine motor skills by threading objects of different shapes and sizes together.
Program details
Slide, slip, and loop through tube, large rings, and other materials! Practice your fine motor skills by threading objects of different shapes and sizes together.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
may
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly. Explore materials, practice using new tools,
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
NE FIRST brings LEGO League Explore to Boston Children’s Museum with their LEGO robotic creations for a festival of learning! Check out more about our
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NE FIRST brings LEGO League Explore to Boston Children’s Museum with their LEGO robotic creations for a festival of learning! Check out more about our Creator at: NEFIRST.org
CreatedBytes extends the CreatedBy Festival all year long, celebrating STEAM by bringing inventors, innovators, and high-tech tinkerers in the New England Area to the Museum. Come meet a Creator as they do a showcase or a hands-on activity. You might meet a robot, try out a kid-friendly app, test out a game, make your own music, or more. Learn more at https://createdbyfestival.org/ Check the Museum web calendar for specific activities.”
Time
(Saturday) 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly. Explore materials, practice using new tools,
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly. Explore materials, practice using new tools,
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly. Explore materials, practice using new tools,
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly. Explore materials, practice using new tools,
Program details
Send materials soaring through the air! See how different things like paper, streamers, balls and more float and fly.
Explore materials, practice using new tools, or discover something unexpected about the way things work. Enjoy STEAM activities designed specially to support toddlers’ natural curiosity about the world. Activity changes monthly.
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
The Common, 2nd floor