Family Visits
At PEM, we want to make it easy for you and your family to connect with art and culture. Our Art & Nature Center, with hands-on discovery drawers, games and interactive exhibitions, is a great place to start.
You can also embark on a treasure hunt of sorts and search for animals or sailing ships in the PEM collection using our complimentary Gallery Discovery Kits.
Check the calendar for the next Weekend Festival and join the rest of the PEM community for a weekend of unforgettable dance, music, film, art making and opportunities to meet artists and performers. Whatever you choose to do while you’re here — listen to a story during Book Buddies or make a painting in the Art Studios — we want your visit to be relaxing and enjoyable.
Family-friendly Resources
- Ships Ahoy!: Gallery Discovery Kit
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- Download this family-friendly Gallery Discovery Kit and explore life at sea. PDF Format.
Featured Interactives For Your Family
- Shapeshifting
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- January 14, 2012
- Terje Isungset's Ice Music
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- June 18, 2011
- Westerkerk - Look, Explore, and Listen
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- March 3, 2011
Related events For families
Included with museum admission
Listen to a lively reading of M.T. Anderson's The Serpent Came to Gloucester and create your own sea monster sand painting.
For children ages 5 to 8 with accompanying adult.
Made possible by Target
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Adventurers
After viewing Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge and Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, students explore art in a natural habitat, seeking inspiration from their surroundings at PEM and the great outdoors. Projects include digital photography collage and mapmaking.
Guest presenters include perennial favorites Curious Creatures (curiouscreatures.org) and more!
For children ages 8 to 11
Art Adventurers Session II: July 16-20
Art Majors Session III: August 6-10
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
Download Registration Form
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Adventurers
After viewing Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge and Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, students explore art in a natural habitat, seeking inspiration from their surroundings at PEM and the great outdoors. Projects include digital photography collage and mapmaking.
Guest presenters include perennial favorites Curious Creatures (curiouscreatures.org) and more!
For children ages 8 to 11
Art Majors Session III: August 6-10
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
Download Registration Form
$220 members, $250 nonmembers
Art Majors - NEW!
Students delve into a program of art, design, architecture and visual studies. PEM's galleries serve as the ultimate backdrop for this in-depth study of the elements of art (line, form, space, color, value and texture). Students spend the week building a body of work that culminates in an online portfolio.
Daily guest artists include Alison Naturale (alisonnaturale.com) and a return visit by Nathaniel Furlong (studiofiftysix.com).
For children ages 12 to 15
For information or to register, please call 978-542-1629
