New Class Available!

Knights & Princesses
Classes start October 13!

Dive into a medieval time of magic and mayhem. Create your own coat of arms, helmet or crown, sword or scepter. Build a castle and battle the fiery dragon or mix up some golden slime and put together a catapult.

- Five-week series of 1-hour programs
- Fridays, October 13 to November 10
- For 3-5 year olds who are ready to attend alone.
- $45 member, $75 nonmember, includes Museum admission for child.
- Limited space available. Pre-registration required.

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Museum Events

First Friday Dollar Night
Friday, Oct. 6 - 5-8pm

First Fridays are Dollar Night Fridays! Come enjoy an affordable Friday night at the Museum. $1 per person over 12 months old. Registration not required.

Sensory-Friendly Evening
Halloween Art
Friday, Oct. 20 - 5-7pm

Join us for a special free evening for families with children on the autism spectrum or with sensory processing challenges. Documentation of diagnosis is not required. Free to attend. Pre-registration is required.

Evening Theme: Halloween Art
Participants will have fun experimenting with a variety of art modalities including paper crafting, collage, painting, gluing and beads to make some cool Halloween and Autumn projects.

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Hallow-eek! at the Museum

Calling all ghouls, goblins, princesses and everything in between. Join us for some Halloween-themed crafts, demos and hands-on fun during Hallow-eek! at the Museum.

Wear a costume on any of these days to receive $1 off Museum admission.

Super Tuesday

Tuesday, Oct. 24 - 10am-4pm
No need to fear monsters when we have superheroes to save the day! Superhero themed activities and crafts.

Witches & Wizards wednesday

Wednesday, Oct. 25 - 10am-4pm
Help with potion experiments, make a magic wand, and more!

Creepy Crawly Thursday

Thursday, Oct. 26 - 10am-4pm
Ooh ick! Slime, bugs, reptiles, oh my!

Monster Mash Mayhem

Friday, Oct. 27 - 10am-4pm
Practice your best monster face! Monster crafts, monster story time, and more!

Pumpkin Painting Party

Saturday, Oct. 28 - 10am-12pm
Come paint a free pumpkin and enter it into our online contest! While supplies last. Event sponsored by Fulton-Theroux Funeral Service.

Ultimate Halloween Party

Tuesday, Oct. 31 - 10am-4pm
Show off your costumes, make treat boxes, Halloween masks and crafts, and more!

See what's new at the Museum!

Explore our new exhibit Nano
Imagine and discover a world you can't see!

We're back from Shutdown Week and look what we have! Join us to imagine and discover the nanoscale world – a world so tiny it’s too small to see – with our new exhibit Nano!

This exhibition, sprinkled throughout the Museum, includes hands-on, interactive exhibits that invite exploration of nano phenomena and real world applications and implications.

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Charter Oak Giving

Donate to the Museum and have it doubled!

Charter Oak is giving away $200,000* by matching their members donations to the 501(C)(3) organization of their choice! Charter Oak is committed to giving back to charitable entities within their field of membership, as well as charities elsewhere that are meaningful to their members. Click here to learn more about the program.

We hope their program will inspire you to donate to the Niantic Children's Museum so that we can continue to encourage learning and spark imagination and discoveries.

*Donations made between Tuesday, August 15, 2023 and Wednesday, November 22, 2023 or until its 2023 Matching Gifts funding limit is met.

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