For Families
Where else can you fold an origami penguin, meet a live wolf and make your own finger puppets? At PEM, we’ve got plenty of ways for you to discover new adventures in art with your family and friends. Pick up a family-friendly Gallery Discovery Kit and search for animals or explore life at sea. Get swept up in the excitement of an Atrium Alive weekend festival and make new friends in our Book Buddies story time program. Come experience PEM — together.
Drop-in Art Activities
Saturdays and Sundays, 1-3 pm.
Art Studios
Included with museum admission
Come create! Explore art, nature and more. Monthly schedule available in the Art & Nature Center.
Family-friendly Resources
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Ships Ahoy!: Gallery Discovery Kit
Download this family-friendly Gallery Discovery Kit and explore life at sea. PDF Format.
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Related events For families
Included with museum admission
Join artist Kyle Browne and explore patterns created by negative space in everyday objects. Create your own patterns as you experiment with color and value.
Made possible by American Dental Partners
Included with museum admission
Listen to a lively reading of M.T. Anderson's The Serpent Came to Gloucester and create your own sea monster sand painting.
For children ages 5 to 8 with accompanying adult.
Made possible by Target
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Adventurers
After viewing Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge and Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, students explore art in a natural habitat, seeking inspiration from their surroundings at PEM and the great outdoors. Projects include digital photography collage and mapmaking.
Guest presenters include perennial favorites Curious Creatures (curiouscreatures.org) and more!
For children ages 8 to 11
Art Adventurers Session II: July 16-20
Art Majors Session III: August 6-10
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
Download Registration Form
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Adventurers
After viewing Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge and Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, students explore art in a natural habitat, seeking inspiration from their surroundings at PEM and the great outdoors. Projects include digital photography collage and mapmaking.
Guest presenters include perennial favorites Curious Creatures (curiouscreatures.org) and more!
For children ages 8 to 11
Art Majors Session III: August 6-10
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
Download Registration Form
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Majors - NEW!
Students delve into a program of art, design, architecture and visual studies. PEM's galleries serve as the ultimate backdrop for this in-depth study of the elements of art (line, form, space, color, value and texture). Students spend the week building a body of work that culminates in an online portfolio.
Daily guest artists include Alison Naturale (alisonnaturale.com) and a return visit by Nathaniel Furlong (studiofiftysix.com).
For children ages 12 to 15
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
