Come to the Arnold Arboretum on July 28^th and enjoy FREE activities from 10am-3pm, part of the Highland Street Foundation’s Free Fun Fridays program.

Enjoy free activities like the building lab, water coloring, dance, caterpillar lab, Story Board Walks, and more.

Free Fun Fridays invites Massachusetts residents and tourists to visit

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Join us for an evening of conversation (and consumption). Beer historian Liz Garibay will discuss the role of beer at the 1893 World’s Fair. Learn how brewers were advancing an array of technologies during this period, drink in the story of how a major beer war took place on the grounds of the Fair's Agricultural Building, and absorb fascinating facts about how beer shaped our nation. After the talk, enjoy a variety of beers and explore 

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Improve your health and well-being with yoga. We will practice poses, breathing and meditation in the tranquil setting of the Arnold Arboretum.

This event is cosponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, National Park Service Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Emerald Necklace Conservancy and the

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Experience the Arboretum in a new way--take a free guided tour with a knowledgeable volunteer docent. Tour topics range from Highlights and History to Landscape for Learning and special themes on Olmsted, Arboretum collections, and more. For more information and possible cancellations due to weather, call the Visitor Center at 617-384-5209. Tours last around 90 minutes, and are geared toward adults. There is no need to register.

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Experience the Arboretum in a new way--take a free guided tour with a knowledgeable volunteer docent. Tour topics range from Highlights and History to Landscape for Learning and special themes on Olmsted, Arboretum collections, and more. For more information and possible cancellations due to weather, call the Visitor Center at 617-384-5209. Tours last around 90 minutes, and are geared toward adults. There is no need to register.

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Students entering grades 3–4

Explore the daily life of the ancient Maya people through hands-on activities with hieroglyphs, clay, food, outdoor games and some surprises. Learn a little Spanish and become a magnificent Mesoamerican for a week.

Hosted by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Advance registration required. Click here for more information. 

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Students entering grades 1–3

From slow-moving sloths to fast-swimming sharks, from tiny insects to giant giraffes, the world is full of amazing animals. Travel through the museum’s exhibits to learn about animals near and far. Explore your questions though crafts, games, and live animals.

Advance registration required. Click here for more information. 

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Students entering grades 6–8

Combine your love for animals and drawing in this art and science program. With a museum educator, investigate the lives of birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians. With artist Erica Beade, draw these animals from the exhibitions and classroom specimens while practicing various drawing techniques.

Advance registration required. There is an additional $10 materials fee included in the cost of this program.

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Students entering grades 5–6

Become an experimental anthropologist and use a spear thrower, drill a hole with a bow-drill, and try other technologies of Indigenous people of North America.

Hosted by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Advance registration required. Click here for more information. 

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Students entering grades 4–7

Natural history and art have been linked for a long time. Come explore the museum and your creative side with in-depth art activities like printmaking through collographs, monotypes, or relief prints.

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The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a number of unique archives and collecting agencies in Cambridge. Staff from the Harvard Art Museums Archives will present archival materials based on this year’s theme, “Living and Dying in Cambridge.” Talks will be held at 4pm and 5pm, in the museums’ Materials Lab.

Free admission, but registration is required. Sign up for the event here.

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In conjunction with our exhibition A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti, Harvard Art Museums staff will present materials illustrating the museums’ history of collecting, teaching, and exhibiting Persian art; the event will take place in the Art Study Center. Formats to be shown include archival photographs, correspondence, diaries, teaching materials and student works, and more, and will focus on the

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