Open House at the Museum of Arts and Design

Sat Aug 9, 2025
10:00am to 6:00pm ET
Age: All
Price: Free with registration
Location:
Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design welcomes makers of all ages for a day of free admission and exhibition-inspired creative projects to spark your inner artist! Cool off with a movie in The Theater at MAD, explore the exhibitions, and create a work of art with MAD’s artist educators or visit the creative play station hosted by Brooklyn-based toy company Clixo.   

Schedule of activities

11:30am–12:30pm A meditation session in Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe led by Jeanne Lauren Smith of As You are Mindfulness (floor 5)

12pm The Princess Bride (PG) in The Theater at MAD (Theater level)

12:30pm Tour The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler with MAD's Artslife teen interns (floor 3)

1–4pm Art-making for all ages inspired by exhibitions on view: mask-making, nature prints, paper pots, plus the Clixo play station (floor 7)

1–4pm Learn about MAD's rooftop beehives and delicious MAD honey  (floor 6)

3pm Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (PG-13) in The Theater at MAD (Theater level)

Advance registration strongly recommended.

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.