Summertime is Family Time at the Nasher Museum!

Beat the heat this summer with a visit to the Nasher Museum and bring the kids!

Begin your adventure by picking up an art scavenger hunt created by our Education Department.
The clue cards challenge young visitors to walk through the galleries to find small details in works of art.

At the front desk, ask staff for hints. “Kids love it so much,” says Visitor Services staffer Bryan Woolard. Fellow staff member Jenny Leinbach adds, “There’s a prize! You get one of our dishwasher-safe art stickers.”

Our Education Department has chosen special children’s books, in both Spanish and English, on art from around the world.

Stop by the front desk to choose an activity pouch filled with storybooks and conversation prompts.

Head into the galleries, find a comfortable spot to sit down and read a book together!

Sunday, June 9, 2024, 1-3 PM

Take a trip through time and explore works of art with defining characteristics that give us a clue into when they were made.
Enjoy looking at and learning about real-life fossils from the Duke Lemur Center’s collection!

Rakan DiarBakerli, K-12 and Family Programs Educator, tells Spectrum News 1 reporter Jatrissa Wooten how families enjoyed making art from recycled materials with the Scrap Exchange and meeting an owl, a hawk and a turtle from the Piedmont Wildlife Center. Watch the episode.

For more than a decade, Madeline Nielsen and her two little brothers visited the Nasher Museum many times with their mother. She remembers gazing into a Book of Hours filled with miniature paintings in luminous colors. She remembers staring up at 900-year-old limestone sculptures of four Apostles and using a touch screen to “paint” them with colored lights. In fact, Madeline credits the Nasher Museum for leading her to become a Medievalist in her academic work, she said. “Clearly the art experiences I had here made an impact.”

Find out more about Madeline’s story and why the Nasher Museum loves homeschoolers.