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:
Origami Now! June 16, 2007 – June 8, 2008 This exciting hands-on exhibition presents stunning masterworks of folded paper and explores the many connections between origami art, science, math, and design.
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
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
Origami Now! 
