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Art & Nature Center


Bring your family to experience, explore, and create!

The Art & Nature Center is an interactive exhibition space where families and other visitors can delve into ideas that connect art and nature. Changing exhibitions and an exploration zone celebrate this region’s unique natural heritage, while referencing the global influences nature has had on culture and art.

Experience changing exhibitions:

Polar AttractionsPolar Attractions
June 28, 2008 - June 7, 2009
Explore the Arctic and Antarctic through compelling works of art by 30 contemporary artists.

Learn more about the exhibition


Discover:

  • Art by contemporary artists, as well as objects from PEM’s international collections
  • Display of over 75 local bird species and accompanying DVD station
  • Activity boxes, games, puzzles, and related books for all ages

Participate in:

  • Family programs, such as artist demonstrations, workshops, live animal programs, storytelling, drop-in activities, art making, and special vacation programming
  • Events for adults and children, including lectures and classes
  • Teacher workshops
  • School programs that interlink science, art, and nature for pre-K through
    grade 8 - Learn More about school programs
  • Arts Adventures Club - Learn more about this program

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Awarded "Top Ten Best Art Museums for Kids" from Child Magazine:

PEM’s Art & Nature Center was highlighted as a "Don’t Miss" experience in Child Magazine’s feature article "The Ten Best Art Museums for Kids" in March 2006. Read press release



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