Winter Family Events Events Are FREE Glasgow Museums Unless Specified* January - March 2020 Museum Listings & Fun Events for All the Family
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Winter Family Events Events are FREE Glasgow Museums unless specified* January - March 2020 Museum listings & fun events for all the family Experience, discover & interact at Glasgow Museums! glasgowmuseums.com/whatson Paintballs Painting Portraits Gallery of Modern Art Sat 22 Feb Sat 14 Mar Andy Goldsworthy Bring in a family used clay to create picture or use one (GoMA) six clay snowballs. from your phone to Experiment with paint a family portrait a number of in which you techniques to make surround yourself your own colourful with all of your paintballs! favourite things! ALL EVENTS ARE SUITABLE Water-colour FOR FAMILY / Sat 29 Feb ALL AGES unless Water is vital for life specified and it is also quite important for artists! Climate Change Conversation Come and find Saturday Art Club out more about Sat 28 Mar water and create a Inspired by Ilana Halperin’s artwork, come to GoMA for a morning to see Every Saturday | 10.30am–12.30pm | 3–12yrs | Donations welcome watercolour painting to take away. Wisniewski’s what we can do to keep Scotland Join us every Saturday morning for these fun family sessions. This year, Windows Saturday Art Club Goes Green! To celebrate our Green Tourism Award beautiful and stop climate change. Sat 21 Mar (Silver - help us make Gold!), a new points system will award those who Giant Paolozzi walk, cycle or take public transport here! Crazy Colour Adrian Wisniewski Collages used the colours of the elements that Sat 7 Mar Half Term Holiday Gorgeous Georgians the galleries were Sat 8 Feb Inspired by Eduardo originally called after Programme In this fun, pop up show Paolozzi’s colourful to make the colourful in Gallery 1 we will be artworks, come windows that you to GoMA and see on the stairs. discovering and making the different things Georgian make your own Come along to this children played with to wonderful collages! Saturday Art Club amuse themselves. and create your own stained Tiny animals in Marvellous Mugs glass windows. tiny houses Sat 25 Jan Sat 11 Jan Take inspiration from ‘Fegs Inspired by Daphne Wright’s Urny Mugs’ or Jessie M Home Ornaments we will King’s ‘Shaving Mugs’ and be making our own tiny make your own mug! Art for Baby clay animals and making a Every Tuesday house for them to live in. Recycled Drawings 11am–12pm | Under 2s Silk Polonaise dress, English, about 1780, Glasgow Museums Sat 1 Feb Book in advance Homes for the Future Book by emailing Gorgeous Georgians Recycle! The artist Kate Davis in Sat 15 Feb [email protected] Mon 10 & Tue 11 Feb | 10.30am–12.30pm Sat 18 Jan Gallery 4 used old leaflets to What type of house do you or call us at 0141 287 3050 This half-term holiday come to GoMA create new artworks. Make Bring along any old want to live in when you Looking for something to do with your and explore, through arts Christmas cards or your own pamphlet on grow up? Take inspiration baby? Come along to GoMA and and play, the lives of our wrapping paper to create what you think your rights from the Domestic Bliss make something simple and creative Georgian ancestors recycled works of art are and what’s important exhibition in Gallery 4 to for you and your baby in a relaxed who lived in this inspired by the artist Niki de to you! design the perfect house and welcoming environment. Saint Phalle. for the future. beautiful mansion! [email protected] [email protected] 0141 287 3050 *Events are free & drop-in unless otherwise stated 0141 287 3050 *Events are free & drop-in unless otherwise stated Weekly Store Hunters Family Programme Glasgow Museums Every Saturday | 1.30–4pm | Family 5+ A workshop for the whole family to enjoy every Saturday afternoon. Don’t miss the chance to get creative and have some family fun whilst exploring Resource Centre our fascinating museum stores in an interactive way. 2020 Vision Rainforest Survival Spiral Springs (GMRC) ALL EVENTS Sat 11 Jan Sat 15 Feb Sat 21 Mar ARE SUITABLE Make your own time Could you survive in the Using recycled pop cans, FOR FAMILY / capsule and learn about rainforest? Discover the create your own spiral ALL AGES the sort of things you can stories of the people and garden ornament to unless Workshops specified store in it for the next animals who live there. welcome in the spring. 20 years! Take part in fun craft Mini Store Hunters activities, and learn how Tours and Roman Mosaics you can help to protect First Monday 11am–12noon & 1.30–2.30pm, Sat 18 Jan the rainforest. First Friday 11am–12noon of each month | 2–5yrs Workshops Step back in time to ancient Rome! Join us The 4 for Come and explore the stores, handle and discover some of the February objects and get creative on the first amazing Roman objects in Sat 22 Feb Monday and first Friday of each month, our collection, then create Keep warm inside GMRC Fossil Hunters Sat 28 Mar a new theme each month. your own colourful mosaic. while creating a card and string winter scene gesso Dig out your inner Mon 6 Jan | Wee Birds Poems panel, inspired by the palaeontologist and join Build and decorate a bird feeder to help feed Sat 25 Jan Macdonald sisters. us in the collection for a wee birds through winter. Celebrate Burns by building fossil hunting workshop where you will uncover Mon 3 Feb & Fri 7 Feb | Wee Snow Pictures a bird box to help keep Fantastic Flyers NEW ! Amazing Animals Tour Sat 29 Feb fossils in the sand and try Create a winter picture with cotton wool. the bird singing over the Sun 19 Jan,16 Feb & 29 Mar | 11.30am–12.30pm winter. Also make up your Investigate some of the to identify them. Mon 2 & Fri 6 Mar | Wee Spirals Half Term Holiday own poems inspired by our amazing flying creatures Prepare for spring by making paper springy Mon 10 Feb natural history collection. in our stores then design, spinning spirals. 11.30am-12.30pm decorate and fly your own Mackintosh fantastic flying machine Book in advance | Telephone 0141 276 9300 Impressions Wee Creatives email [email protected] Sat 1 Feb Hurrah for Hats! Spring Holiday Sat 7 Mar Wed 29 Jan, 26 Feb, 25 Mar | 10.30–11.30am & Discover some of the incredible animals in This fun family printing 1.30–2.30pm | Under 2s | Book in advance our natural history collection! workshop will explore the Hurrah! Make a themed Programme Telephone 0141 276 9300 symbols and inspirations hat, inspired by the objects or email [email protected] behind the work of in our collection. COMING SOON! Free Community Group Mackintosh and his These playful sessions take place in our Workshops peers and inspire you to Changing Seasons Tue 7 & 14, Wed 8 & 15, museum stores – a treasure trove of art Sat 14 Mar Times flexible | Book in advance create your own print to Thu 9 &16 Apr| 1.30–4pm and museum objects! Vibrant colours, Telephone 0141 276 9300 take home! Come along and explore Looking for something to do interesting shapes and surprising stories email [email protected] some of the paintings over the Easter holidays? are sure to keep your young child amazed. showing the changing Bring your community group to discover Love Bugs Why not come on down to behind the scenes of GMRC! Take a free Sat 8 Feb seasons, then make your own seasonal landscape one of GMRC’s fun packed guided tour exploring the museum stores, Create a colourful shiny family sessions, explore love bug valentine card picture using different then a follow up practical workshop tailored our stores, real museum inspired by our jewel materials. to the needs and interests of your group. objects and get making! Days are flexible and booking is essential. bug collection. 200 Woodhead Rd, South Nitshill Ind. Estate, Glasgow, G53 7NN 200 Woodhead Rd, South Nitshill Ind. Estate, Glasgow, G53 7NN [email protected] [email protected] 0141 276 9300 *Events are free & drop-in unless otherwise stated 0141 276 9300 *Events are free & drop-in unless otherwise stated ALL EVENTS ARE SUITABLE Autism-Friendly Activities at Glasgow Museums FOR FAMILY / Kelvin Hall ALL AGES unless specified Visual Storyboards Visual storyboards give autistic visitors an idea of what to expect when coming to our venues. You can download them here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/autism- friendly-glasgow-museums We have visual storyboards for Sensory Kits Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow There are sensory kits available to Museums Resource Centre, Kelvin borrow from reception at the Gallery Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and of Modern Art, St Mungo Museum Museum, St Mungo Museum, of Religious Life & Art, and Riverside Provand’s Lordship and Riverside Museum. We are working with the Museum. We are working on Workshops autistic community to improve these storyboards for Scotland Street kits which is why they are currently School Museum and People’s Palace only available in three pilot venues. which will be available very soon. Quiet Safe Spaces This is a place where autistic visitors can go to find calm when they feel overwhelmed. This can help people to successfully continue their museum visit or to prepare for their journey home. Family Day Chinese New Year Gallery of Modern Art Sat 8 Feb | 12–4pm Mack Snacks Tue 11 & Wed 12 Feb Gorgeous Georgians - Autism friendly Kelvin Hall’s annual family–friendly 1–1.30pm, 1.45–2.15pm, 2.30–3pm | 7yrs+ early opening and workshop celebration of Chinese New Year with Fri 7 Feb | Autism early opening 10–11am Drop in but please arrive for the start of a session Ricefield Arts.