August 6–10
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Ages 4–5
Half-day camps, 9–11:30 a.m.
Some camps also available 1–3:30 p.m.
Choose One:
Art Cat's Museum Mystery
Create costumes and disguises inspired by artworks in the museum’s collection. Blend into your surroundings and find clues in the galleries to solve a museum mystery. Students will make spy notebooks, spyglasses, wearable sculptures, and paintings!
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Dino Dig, Afternoon Session
The morning session of this camp is full. Please click here to place your name on the waitlist.
Have a dino-mite week as a junior paleontologist! Get up-close and personal with Dinosaurs in Their Time. Find out where those big bones came from and get to know the animals they belonged to. Bone up on your dino facts by studying specimens, making fossil casts, digging for replica bones, and investigating the plants of the Mesozoic Era. Meet the creatures that roamed with the dinosaurs—early mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.
Ages 6–7
Full-day camps, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Art Olympics
This camp is full. Please click here to place your name on the waitlist.
Become an art athlete just in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics! Test your endurance in this art pentathlon, as you draw, paint, print, sculpt, and collage. Team up in art relays and make your own Art Olympics medals. Create a clay figure of an athlete in action inspired by athletes in art—swimmers, archers, and even discus throwers—in the museum’s collection.
Globetrotter
Walk in the footsteps of animals and people around the world and through time, from the prehistoric past to today’s world. Follow the footsteps of early humans across thousands of miles and decide how you would adapt to a changing world. Using the techniques of our ancestors, unleash your creativity through the challenge of constructing ice houses, clothing, and the written word. Dig deeper into the research of our own scientists as you analyze petroglyphs—ancient rock art—to understand the relationships between people and animals in changing environments. Unlock the mysteries of ancient animals, and inscribe your own petroglyphs as early humans did to tell the story of what you have discovered.
Ages 8–10
Full-day camps, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Art Olympics
This camp is full. Please click here to place your name on the waitlist.
Become an art athlete just in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics! Test your endurance in this art pentathlon, as you draw, paint, print, sculpt, and collage. Team up in art relays and make your own Art Olympic medals. Create a clay figure of an athlete in action inspired by athletes in art—swimmers, archers, and even discus throwers—in the museum’s collection.
Dream House
This camp is full. Please click here to place your name on the waitlist.
Design a house limited only by your imagination! Get inspired by architectural drawings, models, and artworks in the galleries that represent houses from around the world and throughout history. Create floor plans, elevations, sections, and a model of the house of your dreams. Share your architectural drawings and models with your family and friends on the last day of camp.
Eye Spy
Do you have an eye for detail? Do you like to puzzle through patterns? Join us for a museum micro-adventure to unearth some of the smallest specimens we have on display. Analyze patterns and make connections between cultural artifacts and the natural world. Learn how your brain decodes fine detail by experimenting with light and color. Use a microscope to compare the eye structure of insects, fish, and mammals. Investigate a real cow eyeball using age-appropriate dissection tools and techniques.
Ages 11–13
Full-day camps, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Youth Museum Institute: Pure Energy
From fossil fuels to photosynthesis, investigate different forms of energy. Explore energy in unexpected places from prehistoric plankton to a windmill generator made from a recycled water bottle. Discover how your body burns calories, and compare your diet to the diets of animals and people around the world. Cook up ideas and sample treats for a line of eco-friendly and energetically balanced snacks. Learn about fossil fuels and sustainable alternatives by building a solar oven and experimenting with solar cells. Design activities to show museum visitors the green impact you want to have in your world.
Fiber Art
Fabric and fiber become your media for functional and artistic purposes. Enhance the line, color, texture, and pattern of fabric as you screen print, embellish, and paint. Get inspired by fashions and fabrics from other times and places.