Activity Table Time

Free with museum admission.

9:30 AM - 3:00 PM

For ages 0 - 3 years old. Experience a different activity each week including materials for stacking, sorting and exploring. Experience a different activity each week that satisfies a child's natural curiosity while enhancing hand/eye coordination, encouraging language development and building motor skills.

Early Explorers

9:30 AM - 1:00 PM

The Children's Museum's hands-on exhibits are designed to spark an interest in learning, critical to a child's success at school. During Early Explorers Time, you and your preschooler can explore the key indicators of success at school - literacy, scientific reasoning, primary thinking about math, the arts, and the humanities - found throughout our museum. Special activities and a museum staff member offer an enhanced learning experience. For children 0 - 5 years old.

My Grandparent & Me

Grandparents are admitted FREE on Fridays from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Discover the museum's many hands-on exhibits with your grandchild.

Science Cart

Free with museum admission.

Enjoy fun, quick science demonstrations and activities all weekend.

May 5 & 6 - Plant a seed

May 12 & 13 - Egg carton bugs

May 19 & 20 - Eel mobile

May 26 & 27 - Fabulous fragrance

June 2 & 3 - Slime

June 9 & 10 - Marshmallow molecules

June 16 & 17 - Food chain

June 23 & 24 - Metamorphosis!

June 30 & July 1: Invisible ink

RiverTown Rover

Free with museum admission.

Facilitated games, crafts and interactive stories highlighting different cultural groups of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Each month features a different country or culture. 

May: Discover Peru! 

Make a pan pipe out of straws.

June: Discover China!

Use play dough to make a Chinese moon cake!