The Silver City Museum will host a Children’s Activity for Halloween on Saturday, October 29th from 10:30 to noon. Go to the Museum in costume and do a surprise Halloween activity. Call 538-5921
In conjunction with the Gila River Festival, children are invited to the Silver City Museum on September 24th from 10:30 to noon to make mosaics out of paper rock squares. There will be mosaic patterns they can follow or kids can create their own. Call 538-5921
On September 3rd, children will have the opportunity to make a Styrofoam printing from 10:30 to noon at the Silver City Museum during the Southwest Print Fiesta. Children are invited to join the fun to make a print to take home, frame, and hand in their rooms. Call 538-5921
Celebrate the Dedication of the Plaque to Harry Benjamin in the courtyard of the Silver City Museum on Thursday, July 28th beginning at 10 am. The museum was opened in 1967 thanks to Harry Benjamin, the first curator, artist, and visionary. Call 538-5921
The Silver City Museum invites kids of all ages to come by and make a Play-doh pot or plate on July 23rd from 10:30 to noon. Etch a design with toothpicks using Mimbres designs as inspiration. Call 538-5921
There will be a Brown Bag Presentation by Susi Wolf on June 25th from noon to 1 pm at the Silver City Museum Annex. Wolf will discuss animal tales as they relate to various cultures, the importance of animal tales in storytelling with various animal characters. Call 538-5921
On Saturday, June 11th from 10:30 to noon, kids of all ages can go to the Silver City Museum Annex and make popsicle stick picture frames. The frames can be used for family pictures, school drawings, and more! Call 538-5921
Kids of all ages are invited to the Silver City Museum on May 21st from 10:30 to noon for a children’s activity. Children can make a macaroni name plate for the door to their rooms, and make magnets out of clothespins on which to hang important messages. Call 538-5921
Plant a Mini-Garden and make a paper vase at the Silver City Museum on April 23rd from 10:30 to noon. Kids of all ages can come plant a min-garden to take home and make a picture of a paper vase to display to celebrate spring. Call 538-5921
There will be a Brown Bag Program entitled “Filling in the Big Ditch” on April 7th from noon to 1 pm at the Silver City Museum Annex. Dave Menzie will present the story of the Big Ditch in the context of geological processes and through photographic documentation of the formation of the ditch. Call 538-5921
