Preschool Programs

Join us for Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones and their caregivers to start the day! Each session features a free drop-in program designed especially for children under 5. We rotate weekly activities across these topics: 🧵 Hands-On History & Play: Step into the past with interactive play inspired by real museum objects. 🎨 Arts […]

Join High Street Studios at Wenham Museum for Moving and Grooving, a 4-week music and movement class designed for children and their caregivers! Each 30-minute session is packed with fun activities that foster gross and fine motor skills, explore concepts of space, time, and energy, and enhance social skills in a nurturing environment. Through movement improvisation, […]

Drop-in for ballet & movement with Cape Ann Center for Dance and start your day with joy, creativity, and fun! Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones and their caregivers to start the day! Each […]

Wrap yourself in stories! Each week we’ll read a children’s book and explore a quilt or another object from the museum’s collection to bring the story to life. Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones […]

First Steps in Music is coming to Wenham Museum! Drawing on a rich repertoire of folk songs and rhymes, this 30-minute class is designed to nurture "tuneful, beat-ful, artful" children and to lay the foundation for a life-long love of music. Children and their caregivers will be tapping, clapping, singing, and dancing from start to […]

Join us the 2nd Friday of the month for our M is for Museum/P is for Playdate program!  Each month, we read a story, then do a related craft or activity. These programs have been designed to address MA curriculum standards for Pre-K in Reading and Literature, Science, Personal and Social Development and Peer Relationships. […]

Wrap yourself in stories! Each week we’ll read a children’s book and explore a quilt or another object from the museum’s collection to bring the story to life. Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones […]

First Steps in Music is coming to Wenham Museum! Drawing on a rich repertoire of folk songs and rhymes, this 30-minute class is designed to nurture "tuneful, beat-ful, artful" children and to lay the foundation for a life-long love of music. Children and their caregivers will be tapping, clapping, singing, and dancing from start to […]

Drop-in for ballet & movement with Cape Ann Center for Dance and start your day with joy, creativity, and fun! Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones and their caregivers to start the day! Each […]

Get creative with hands-on crafts, open-ended projects, and sensory art fun! Kids can let their imaginations run wild while building fine motor skills and expressing themselves through art. Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones […]

First Steps in Music is coming to Wenham Museum! Drawing on a rich repertoire of folk songs and rhymes, this 30-minute class is designed to nurture "tuneful, beat-ful, artful" children and to lay the foundation for a life-long love of music. Children and their caregivers will be tapping, clapping, singing, and dancing from start to […]

Drop-in for ballet & movement with Cape Ann Center for Dance and start your day with joy, creativity, and fun! Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones and their caregivers to start the day! Each […]

Get creative with hands-on crafts, open-ended projects, and sensory art fun! Kids can let their imaginations run wild while building fine motor skills and expressing themselves through art. Free with general museum admission • Ages 0–5 • No registration required ________ This event is part of Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones […]

Join us for Mornings at the Museum—a fun, enriching way for little ones and their caregivers to start the day! Each session features a free drop-in program designed especially for children under 5. We rotate weekly activities across these topics:  Hands-On History & Play: Step into the past with interactive play inspired by real museum objects.  Arts & Making: […]