Design teams build a LEGO train layout including a city complete with trains, buildings, vehicles, tunnels, mountains, towers, bridges and moving structures with LEGO engineering instructor Jo-Ann Gorrell.
Experience the simple life of 19th-century New England as you dress in old-fashioned costumes and gather by the hearth in the museum’s 17th-century house. Hear enchanting tales of long ago as we churn and taste homemade butter and sip children’s tea. Ages 5+
In celebration of the Wenham Museum’s 90th year, the museum presents Picture This: 90 Years of Storybook Art, an exhibit exploring how toys have provided inspiration to authors and illustrators since the genre of children’s literature began.
Train and model railroad enthusiasts won’t want to miss Wenham Museum’s 22nd Annual Model Railroad and Toy Hobby Show featuring many dealer tables where you can buy, swap and sell everything from equipment and memorabilia to toys, books, and photographs. Visit the museum to see a special model train layout created by NMRA Hub Division Modular Railroad Group on display for the annual show only!
The La Vida Rock Gym invites parents to learn how to belay! Belaying refers to a variety of techniques used in climbing to exert friction on a climbing rope to ensure the safety of the climber and to ensure that a falling climber does not fall very far. If you have a child interested in rock climbing and find yourself nervously watching as your child climbs, take this course! It will enable you to become the belayer and you will be able to identify unsafe belaying proceedures when somebody else is holding the rope!
To complement, 90 Years of Storybook Art Exhibit , Wenham Museum is hosting a special exhibit of 50 original artworks from today's award-winning New England illustrators---and you're invited!
Open Gym at La Vida Rock Gym is open to the public and is a great place to get instruction or just practice to perfect climbing techniques. We welcome new and experienced climbers of all ages. We provide complementary belayers, harnesses, and basic instruction.
The Check the Lavida home page invites parents to learn how to belay! Belaying refers to a variety of techniques used in climbing to exert friction on a climbing rope to ensure the safety of the climber and to ensure that a falling climber does not fall very far. If you have a child interested in rock climbing and find yourself nervously watching as your child climbs, take this course! It will enable you to become the belayer and you will be able to identify unsafe belaying proceedures when somebody else is holding the rope!
Pull your face out of the screen and reconnect with your family with fun low tech board games that DON'T require batteries at Wenham Museum! Spin the dial or roll the dice, get together for a family fun night! Take time out from your busy schedule and spend some quality time with your family in an evening of tech-free games.
Volunteer a few hours at Wenham Museum and in return get some free museum passes? Your kids may thank you.
"The Museum is looking for a few volunteers to help with mailings. If you're interested in donating a few hours a quarter, you can earn free passes to the museum! Call the museum or email info@wenhammuseum.org."
