families
FAMILY GALLERIES

These galleries are open during regular museum hours and may be included with a museum tour.


Artica Gallery

Looking for a new, creative spot for your kids to work on an art project, or a place for you to explore your inner artist? If so, visit the Artica Gallery! Artica is an interactive creative space for all ages. Look at huge painting reproductions on the walls, sit in front of a mirror and draw a self portrait, create on a computer drawing program, "build" a house with the assistance of a paper model or by usings colorful blocks, image a new you when you decorate a reflection of your face with glasses, moustaches or other interesting features, or dive into one of the many other tabletop activities in the space.


Artica helps you discover:
• where artists find inspiration
• how artists use their imagination to be creative
• how artists express their ideas

Installation of the Artica Gallery made possible with support from the Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
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Studio1

Visit Studio 1 to explore installations that are designed to complement selected special exhibitions with hands-on activities that will challenge your imagination and encourage broad thought.

X Marks the Spot
March 9-June 16

To complement the special exhibition Marking Territory, families can visit the Studio1 installation X Marks the Spot. Chart a route to learning and adventure, exploring everything from the trusty road atlas to genealogical maps that trace your family history. You can get there from here!





Family Gallery

This gallery is designed to encourage looking and creating. 
Located on Level 2, next to the Family Activity Center.

FamGal-W.jpgPushing the Envelope
April 27-August 11, 2013

From soup cans and nails to pet food bags and comic books, artists responded to the mass marketing of TV and newspapers by creating art works that celebrated the art of everyday objects!

In conjunction with the exhibition American POP! which is on view May 4-September 8, 2013, bring your family to explore the phenomenon of Pop Art through this hands on exhibition.
 




Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery

Dedicated in honor of Mary Gildehaus, an avid supporter of the Figge and the Quad-City community, this gallery suppports the museum's education department and exhibitions featuring work by local art students.