Join us on April 27th from 12 pm to 5 pm as we celebrate the spring season with free Museum admission, the Spring Used Book Sale, snacks, activities, and art making all day long!

Activities:
Great Hall 12:30 pm: Spring Tree Painting for kids
Great Hall 2:00 pm: Music with Gary Van Slyke
Teen Area All Day: Black Out Poetry (all ages)
Great Hall 2:30-5:00 pm: Bookmark Collage Making (all ages)
Classroom 2:00-4:00 pm: Community Conversation: Share your Beech-Nut Memories
Winslow Homer Wood Engraving Scavenger Hunt

This event is FREE and fun for families, individuals, adults, kids, teens, and seniors. There will be something for everyone!

For questions please email malexander@mvls.info or
call 518-673-2314 ext. 113

Join us as we present Perennial In Frame during the Lunchtime Lecture series of The Erie Canal Museum!

This laid back, fun, and engaging presentation will look at the Arkell Museum’s extensive collection of Mohawk Valley and Erie Canal art and tie it to the history, memory, and revitalization of the Mohawk Valley region. Featuring Mary Alexander, Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library, and David Brooks, Education Director at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will join forces to talk art and history in the Mohawk River Valley and the Erie Canal.

“Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.” ― DeWitt Clinton, The Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton

This is an online event, registration is required please follow the link below to register.
https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/lecture/

For questions please call 518-673-2314 ext. 113 or email info@ArkellMuseum.org

This Mid-Winter Break stop by the classroom and build something amazing!
We will have our large collection of legos out for everyone. Create a design for fun or submit one for the competition and be entered to win a prize!
This is an all day event series that runs from 2/21/23 - 2/24/23.

This is a Free Program for Kids and Tweens.
Younger kids welcome with parental supervison.
Only one submission to per person allowed.