Professional illustrators are on hand to give assistance and career information. Participants must provide their own art supplies. Within These Walls Exhibition Opening Celebration National Museum of American History Hands-on activities and demonstrations of household activities from colonial times to the World War II era are offered. Activities include woodworking, plastering, lacemaking, and quilt making. Contra dancing lessons with live music, a quartet singing abolitionist songs, and the unveiling of the museum's new WWII-era Victory Garden are also scheduled.
Families learn about museum jobs through hands-on activities.
Free, but see Note Evening Stargazing Workshop National Air and Space Museum Join Sean O'Brien , staff astronomer of the Einstein Planetarium, and local amateur astronomers for public telescopic observing. Children explore Sackler images of musicians in Asian culture. In the classroom, they make music on authentic Asian musical instruments with world music educator Bill Jenkins . Continues in June Information subject to change . Resident Associate Program programs require tickets and advance registration.