Photo courtesy of the Fenimore Art Museum.

Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

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Fenimore Art Museum Offers Family-Friendly Program on Saturdays in October

When

October 26, 2024    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Where

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80 (P.O.BOX 800), Cooperstown, NY, 13326

Event Type

Tour & Storytime for Families
Saturdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26 • 11:00 a.m.
Fenimore Art Museum
Included with museum admission • Ages 19 and under are free

COOPERSTOWN, NY — Fenimore Art Museum offers the program “Tour & Storytime for Families” on Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m. throughout the month of October. Museum docents will read aloud one of the books featured in the exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations and then offer a kid-friendly mini-tour. Attendees will then select their favorite illustration in the exhibition and create an artistic bookmark to honor the book from which it came. The program is included with museum admission – ages 19 and under are free.More information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.