Join us at the Museum on Tuesday, September 28 at 6 PM to learn how to make your own paper using recycled items and nature! You can use spices for color, lavender for the smell, dried leaves, and vines for added texture. Use your handmade paper in a journal or create your own gift card....

Join us online along with Sarah Shaffer and the WenOut team on Tuesday, October 5 at 7 PM, to watch two short films and have a conversation about the human need for connection with the great outdoors through many avenues including human-powered recreation. The two films that will guide our conversation are, "The Important Places"...

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE Join us for Murder on Baker Street, a Wells House Murder Mystery Party, on Friday, October 8 at 6 PM. Sherlock and Watson are hosting a dinner party with an intriguing group of guests at their flat on Baker Street.   Londoners were shocked recently when the infamous...

Join us on Wednesday, October 13 at 6 PM to kickstart fall by learning how to make your own pumpkin spice candles in this hands-on MakerSpace program!  Scented with essential oils, these soy wax candles will have your home smelling better than a pumpkin spice latte.  This program will include all the materials needed for...

Join us on October 27, 28 & 29 for a Drop-in Makerspace program on Franken Toys between 10 AM & 4 PM. Come be creative! We’re always learning more about the world and inventing new things.  In this activity, learners make a “creature” by mixing and matching different parts of toys. It’s important to think...

Join us on October 27, 28 & 29 for a Drop-in Makerspace program on Franken Toys between 10 AM & 4 PM. Come be creative! We’re always learning more about the world and inventing new things.  In this activity, learners make a “creature” by mixing and matching different parts of toys. It’s important to think...

Join us on October 27, 28 & 29 for a Drop-in Makerspace program on Franken Toys between 10 AM & 4 PM. Come be creative! We’re always learning more about the world and inventing new things.  In this activity, learners make a “creature” by mixing and matching different parts of toys. It’s important to think...

Join us on Saturday, October 30 for a Sugar Skull Making Workshop. Calaveritas de azucar, or Sugar Skulls, are often left on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altars for children who have passed. The skulls are often decorated with bright colors as a whimsical reminder of the cyclicality of life as opposed to a morbid...

Drop by the Museum between 10:30 am and 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 30 to create a photo frame to place on your own altar or on a community altar. During the program, you will have the opportunity to learn a little of the history and traditions behind the Día de los Muertos Altar and receive instructions...

Join us on Saturday, October 30 for a Sugar Skull Making Workshop. Calaveritas de azucar, or Sugar Skulls, are often left on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altars for children who have passed. The skulls are often decorated with bright colors as a whimsical reminder of the cyclicality of life as opposed to a morbid...

Join us online Thursday, November 4 for a family friendly presentation and film “Why Bears?” with Dr. Chris Servheen. Dr. Servheen is one of the leading grizzly experts in the United States and one of the leading experts on bear conservation in the world. This presentation is about worldwide efforts to conserve bears and is focused on black bear and grizzly...

Join us on Friday, November 5 to celebrate the NCW Juried Art Show & Sale. The Museum will be open from 10 AM - 8 PM on the First Friday of November. We will have a special reception at 6:30 to recognize all the artists and award prizes to the winners. Admission is free on...

Join us on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 PM for an evening with Randy Lewis and Bill Layman to mark the release of their new book "Sunset and Moonrise on the Great Chief- The Ruling Spirit of the Columbia." Come hear the authors talk about the book which is their third book collaboration. In this...

The museum will be closed in observance of Veterans Day. We will reopen on Friday, November 12 at 10 AM.

Join us on Saturday, November 13 for a MakerSpace program on Automaton. Have you ever wondered what makes a Jack-in-the-Box jump out of its box? Or how a player piano can play such beautiful music? Come explore automata at the Museum and see how people have built self-moving machines for hundreds of years!   In...