11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Imagination Studio
Holiday card making.
10:00 am
Join us in Discovery Den to hear a story and make a craft to take home. Story Time is for children ages 2-8 and their caregivers. This month we’re reading “Over and Under the Snow” by Kate Messner. Under the snow exists a secret kingdom of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals that live through the winter safe and warm, awake and busy, under the snow. Following the story, will be a related craft. Explore New Jersey wildlife in Written in the Rocks: Fossil Tales of New Jersey.
4:15 pm
Speaker: Dr. Jacob Hamer, NJ State Museum Assistant Curator of Planetarium Education
Join us in the Planetarium for this free talk. Over the last 800,000 years glacial ice caps miles deep advanced and retreated across North America at least eight times. These cyclic changes in Earth climate are connected to small cyclic variations in Earth’s orbit called Milankovitch cycles. Join us in the planetarium to hear about how astronomy and climate science are intimately connected, and how New Jersey rocks have something to say about these cycles! Save a .
12:00 pm Messengers of Time and Space
1:00 pm The Great Solar System Adventure
2:00 pm Spark: The Universe in Us
3:00 pm Dinosaurs of Antarctica
11:00 am Chispa: El universo en nosotros
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Imagination Studio
Winter Solstice sun wheel craft.
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Imagination Studio
Build a snowflake science craft.
12:00 pm Messengers of Time and Space
1:00 pm The Great Solar System Adventure
2:00 pm Spark: The Universe in Us
3:00 pm Dinosaurs of Antarctica
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Imagination Studio
Make a constellation lantern.
12:00 pm Messengers of Time and Space
1:00 pm The Great Solar System Adventure
2:00 pm Spark: The Universe in Us
3:00 pm Dinosaurs of Antarctica
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Imagination Studio
Snowy Owl craft.
10:00 am
In the American Civil War, flags guided troops into battle and served as symbolic emblems of dedication, pride and patriotism. Join flag historian Dr. David Martin and Curator of Cultural History Nicholas Ciotola for the history of five new flags to be unveiled in the New Jersey State Museum exhibition, The Civil War Flag Collection of New Jersey. Event is free and open to the public
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free afterschool art program for teens (14+)
Learn how to make your own sketchbook to take home using hand bookmaking techniques.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free afterschool art program for teens (14+)
Celebrating Black artists in our collection, we’ll explore the work of Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin with painting of everyday life.
