The local museums and science research centers have set their summer children’s programs into full gear. Check out or download our Google calendar of events.
Tonight you can take your kids to a presentation on Marines science at the MIT Museum. All ages can watch the starts from the the Gilliland Observatory on the roof of the Museum of Science parking garage. Admission to the entire Museum is free as part of Free Friday’s program at museums around the state. Check here for more info.
Upcoming Friday open to doors to the Franklin Park Zoo, the Cape Cod Children’s Museum, the Arnold Arboretum and the ferry to the Boston Harbor Islands.
Arnold Arboretum also offers Family Drop-In Activities: Monthly family activities are offered on the last Saturday of each month, April through October.
Activities run from 11:00am to 1:00pm and may include scavenger hunts, science investigations, craft activities, stories, guided walks, and more-discover something new each month! These events are free, and you can participate for as long or as short a time as you like. Events are held under a tent outside of the Hunnewell Building, or inside when the weather is bad. Upcoming dates: July 30, August 27, September 24, October 29. or to get on the family activity email list, contact arbweb@arnarb.harvard.edu or call 617.384.5209
At the Harvard Museum of Natural History, kids can sign up for weeklong workshops that run Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to noon at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Never Say “Ugh” to a Bug For students entering grades 1-2
SESSION B: JULY 18-22, 9:30 AM TO NOON
Join us for an in-depth investigation of insects, spiders, and other creepy-crawlies. Meet an African Millipede, watch a tarantula spin silk, and listen to the hiss of a giant cockroach. Enjoy the wonders of the exhibit Arthropods: Creatures that Rule and learn about exotic insects, local bugs, and fossilized creatures.
Click here for upcoming programs.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
in Cambridge cacnel observatory night for June and July but next week, Wednesday July 20, it will offer The Real Music of the Spheres with Don Kurtz
We humans are visual creatures — “seeing is believing.” But there are other ways to know the world and the universe. For many species of bats, “hearing is believing.” 2500 years ago the Pythagoreans believed in a celestial Music of the Spheres — an idea that reverberated down the millennia in Western music, literature, art and science. Now we know that there is a real music of the spheres. The stars have sounds in them that we can use to see right to their very cores. This multimedia lecture will look at the relationship of music to stellar sounds. You will hear the real sounds of the stars (with a key change) and musical compositions where every member of the orchestra is a real (astronomical) star. The Kepler spacecraft lets us “hear” the stars 100 times better than with telescopes on the ground. Come see exciting discoveries about strange stars and learn how stellar sounds help in the search for another Earth.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html