Community Calendar

Winter break is the best time to build, invent and play! FutureMakers designs and manufactures hands-on playful engineering kits for classrooms across the US. We open our lab a few times a year for special play and exploration sessions, and we invite your child(ren) to join in for some purposeful winter break play!

We're offering AM sessions for younger learners, and PM sessions for mixed ages. Join in on one or all of our winter Maker Break sessions. Each two-hour AM workshop will activate a different theme:

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ages 5 - 7
Monday 12/29 - Super Structures - building small and tall with lines and shapes
Tuesday 12/30 - Kinetic Creatures - Invent moving creatures using levers, linkages, and pneumatics.
Wednesday 12/31 - Let's Roll - inventing machines that roll using axles, wheels and wind-up mechanisms
Friday 12/2 - Electric Seen - machines that spin and mix colors and images in your eyeballs.

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Ages 7+
Monday 12/29 - Scene Machines - Explore linkages and systems of moving parts to create mechanisms that do work, or creatures that move.
Tuesday 12/30 - Story Machines - Create machines with screens that turn your drawings into scrolls that unwind and tell a story.
Wednesday 12/31 - WiggleBots- Create inventions that wiggle and draw using mechanical vibration produced by electric motors.
Friday 12/2 - Rolling and Flying - machines that roll and fly using motors and propellers.

Notes:
All project materials included
Please have your learner bring a snack and a drink for brain break time.
This is for children ages 5 - 7 with prior group learning experience.
Same-day registrations are welcome - open on a first-come, first-served basis.
You're welcome to sign up for one or all drop in sessions.

Winter break is the best time to build, invent and play! FutureMakers designs and manufactures hands-on playful engineering kits for classrooms across the US. We open our lab a few times a year for special play and exploration sessions, and we invite your child(ren) to join in for some purposeful winter break play!

We're offering AM sessions for younger learners, and PM sessions for mixed ages. Join in on one or all of our winter Maker Break sessions. Each two-hour AM workshop will activate a different theme:

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ages 5 - 7
Monday 12/29 - Super Structures - building small and tall with lines and shapes
Tuesday 12/30 - Kinetic Creatures - Invent moving creatures using levers, linkages, and pneumatics.
Wednesday 12/31 - Let's Roll - inventing machines that roll using axles, wheels and wind-up mechanisms
Friday 12/2 - Electric Seen - machines that spin and mix colors and images in your eyeballs.

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Ages 7+
Monday 12/29 - Scene Machines - Explore linkages and systems of moving parts to create mechanisms that do work, or creatures that move.
Tuesday 12/30 - Story Machines - Create machines with screens that turn your drawings into scrolls that unwind and tell a story.
Wednesday 12/31 - WiggleBots- Create inventions that wiggle and draw using mechanical vibration produced by electric motors.
Friday 12/2 - Rolling and Flying - machines that roll and fly using motors and propellers.

Notes:
All project materials included
Please have your learner bring a snack and a drink for brain break time.
This is for children ages 5 - 7 with prior group learning experience.
Same-day registrations are welcome - open on a first-come, first-served basis.
You're welcome to sign up for one or all drop in sessions.

Ring in the New Year with an intimate and inspiring chamber concert featuring the First Chair players of the Bach in Baltimore Orchestra. Enjoy virtuosic performances, elegant repertoire, and the warmth of great music in a cozy setting—perfect for starting 2026 on a high note!

Santa Claus Is Comin’ is a dazzling, family-friendly musical celebration by Nygel D. Robinson and Ken-Matt Martin, the powerhouse performer and co-creator of our breakout hit Mexodus. Packed with heart and groove, this spirited show features classic holiday favorites, reimagined with the unmistakable sound of Motown legends—from The Supremes to The Jackson 5.

Whether you’re bringing kids, coworkers, grandparents, or that one cousin who lives for a dance break—this is the holiday party you don’t want to miss.

Santa Claus Is Comin' is a dazzling, family-friendly musical celebration by Nygel D. Robinson and Ken-Matt Martin, the powerhouse performer and co-creator of our breakout hit Mexodus. Packed with heart and groove, this spirited show features classic holiday favorites, reimagined with the unmistakable sound of Motown legends--from The Supremes to The Jackson 5.

Whether you're bringing kids, coworkers, grandparents, or that one cousin who lives for a dance break--this is the holiday party you don't want to miss.

This focus exhibition of 10 works explores the relationship between burning fossil fuels—namely, coal—and the emergence of European modernism. Drawing on research conducted by climate scientists and art historians, the exhibition presents a range of paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, and others to explore the ways that their artistic practices and style emerged, in part, in response to widespread pollution in London and Paris.
Presented as part of the Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative.

More than 50 works on paper investigate how artists working in Europe and French-occupied northern Africa watched and participated as nature became a resource for people to hoard or share.

Drawn from the BMA’s George A. Lucas Collection, this exhibition of 19th-century art foregrounds the many ways that human relationships, including imperialism and capitalism, affect the environment. Deconstructing Nature is organized thematically, focusing on five environments and the ways artists explored them in their work: The Desert, The Forest, The Field, The City, and The Studio.

Born and raised in Baltimore, George A. Lucas (1824–1909) spent most of his adult life immersed in the Parisian art world and amassed a personal collection of nearly 20,000 works of art. In 1996, the BMA, with funds from the State of Maryland and the generosity of numerous individuals in the community, purchased the George A. Lucas Collection, which had been on extended loan to the Museum for more than 60 years.

In this focus exhibition of approximately 20 photographs, prints, drawings, and textiles, the natural environment is a source of creative inspiration worth celebrating and protecting.

Works by artists such as Winslow Homer, Richard Misrach, Charles Sheeler, and Kiki Smith, among many others, depict the elements of air, water, earth, and fire and address broader themes of ecological awareness and preservation. These themes range from how artists have used visual language to convey the act of locating oneself in nature; works that depict natural forms through the physical integration of environmental components; and artists’ commentary on sites of environmental disaster, the sociopolitical ramifications of human impact, and the potential of symbiotic healing for this planet and its occupants.

For thousands of years, East Asia’s cultures have viewed human life as part of a much larger system that encompasses the natural world. Drawn from the BMA’s collection, this exhibition boasts more than 40 objects—from magnificent ink drawings to beautifully crafted stoneware and poignant contemporary photographs and prints. They bring into the galleries the mountains and seas, wild and supernatural animals, and plant life that are extensive across East Asian imagery and often carry symbolic meaning.

Works on view include robust 13th-century ceramic vessels, delicate porcelain, carved jade, intricately sewn textiles, and large-scale photography; collectively, these artworks represent the impulse to fully understand the natural world as foundational to our existence, as shaped by human life, and as an enduring metaphor of survival.

Winter break is the best time to build, invent and play! FutureMakers designs and manufactures hands-on playful engineering kits for classrooms across the US. We open our lab a few times a year for special play and exploration sessions, and we invite your child(ren) to join in for some purposeful winter break play!

We're offering AM sessions for younger learners, and PM sessions for mixed ages. Join in on one or all of our winter Maker Break sessions. Each two-hour AM workshop will activate a different theme:

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Ages 5 - 7
Monday 12/29 - Super Structures - building small and tall with lines and shapes
Tuesday 12/30 - Kinetic Creatures - Invent moving creatures using levers, linkages, and pneumatics.
Wednesday 12/31 - Let's Roll - inventing machines that roll using axles, wheels and wind-up mechanisms
Friday 12/2 - Electric Seen - machines that spin and mix colors and images in your eyeballs.

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Ages 7+
Monday 12/29 - Scene Machines - Explore linkages and systems of moving parts to create mechanisms that do work, or creatures that move.
Tuesday 12/30 - Story Machines - Create machines with screens that turn your drawings into scrolls that unwind and tell a story.
Wednesday 12/31 - WiggleBots- Create inventions that wiggle and draw using mechanical vibration produced by electric motors.
Friday 12/2 - Rolling and Flying - machines that roll and fly using motors and propellers.

Notes:
All project materials included
Please have your learner bring a snack and a drink for brain break time.
This is for children ages 5 - 7 with prior group learning experience.
Same-day registrations are welcome - open on a first-come, first-served basis.
You're welcome to sign up for one or all drop in sessions.