At the Museum
Teen Studio Workshops this Weekend!
By Lauren Popp at May 5, 2010 | 6:06 pm | 0 Comment
Head to the Teen Studio this weekend to check out the installation Knowledge Under Construction. Participate in art-making and poetry workshops, brainstorm ways you and your peers can protect the environment in San Diego and beyond, and win a pair of VIP Bamboozle Concert tickets! Tickets are very limited, arrive early to collect your pair! [...]
more...NCM School-in-Residence
By Lauren Popp at April 28, 2010 | 4:38 pm | 0 Comment
NCM recently wrapped up the second year of it’s School-in-Residence Program in partnership with Washington Elementary. This program welcomed 50 third grade students from Washington to the Museum for three full weeks, during which time students took part in a specially designed curriculum that explored visual art, technology, and writing. The students studied the Animal Art exhibition, [...]
more...Cardboard Creatures Camp!
By Lauren Popp at April 28, 2010 | 3:50 pm | 0 Comment
Does your child love nothing more than a cardboard box that they can transform to a fort, boat, airplane, or animal? Then NCM’s Cardboard Creatures is the camp for them! Campers in Grades 4-6 will work with artist Albert Songalia to create a virtual zoo from recycled cardboard. Check out this sample cardboard monster robot with [...]
more...Free fun for your family!
By Visitor Services at April 8, 2010 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment
Target Free Second Sunday is this coming weekend and we have a brand new opprotunity for your family to take advantage of! At 11am and 2pm Miho Tattersall will be teaching a special Origami workshop. Origami is the Japanese word for paper folding and this art form involves the creation of paper forms entirely by [...]
more...Our first Family Game Night!
By Visitor Services at April 2, 2010 | 6:26 pm | 0 Comment
We had tons of families join us for Family Game Night on Thursday evening. Families of all shapes and sizes weaved their way all over the Museum on a crazy scavenger hunt. At each stop, they participated in challenges—from making an animal out of clay to scaling the rope at the climbing wall to racing [...]
more...Megamites unleashed!
By Gavon Morris at February 4, 2010 | 12:13 pm | 1 Comments
Artist Jason Hackenwerth begins his residency at NCM next week, February 11–16! Watch Agartha come to life, a mythical city thought to reside in the earth’s core. Work directly with Hackenwerth daily from 1:30–2:30pm. Hackenwerth recently constructed Megamites at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Watch the clip. And yes, Agartha includes wearable components!
more...The Fundred Movement
By Lauren Popp at January 14, 2010 | 3:10 pm | 1 Comments
The setting at Teen Studio is a very green one. Both environmentally and materialistically. The newest installation is The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, which supports Operation Paydirt. Operation Paydirt has directed its sights on the unsafe levels of lead in the soil of New Orleans. “In New Orleans alone 86,000 properties are estimated to have [...]
more...Target Free Second Sunday Extravaganza!
By Visitor Services at January 6, 2010 | 4:01 pm | 0 Comment
Did you miss our last Target Free Second Sunday? Our old pals from Paul Green’s School of Rock Music performed some great sets and our new friends from The San Diego Square Dance Association got everyone up on their feet. Free Day will be happening again this Sunday, January 10th. NCM will be opened from 10am to [...]
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