Each Magic Carpet Luncheon features an extraordinary travelogue followed by a regionally inspired meal. Entirely run by volunteers, each luncheon benefits the Museum.

Magic Carpet luncheons run from October through March and benefit the Museum’s education programs. Each program begins at 11 a.m. in the Museum's Community Room; lunch is served at noon. Register early, many programs sold out last year.

For more information and to register for a single luncheon or the entire series, contact Martha Clark at 603-643-5691 or Mclark4178@aol.com.  http://www.montshire.org/programs/list/category/magic-carpet

Each Magic Carpet Luncheon features an extraordinary travelogue followed by a regionally inspired meal. Entirely run by volunteers, each luncheon benefits the Museum.

Magic Carpet luncheons run from October through March and benefit the Museum’s education programs. Each program begins at 11 a.m. in the Museum's Community Room; lunch is served at noon. Register early, many programs sold out last year.

For more information and to register for a single luncheon or the entire series, contact Martha Clark at 603-643-5691 or Mclark4178@aol.com.

·   the importance of open communication within families relating to charitable giving;
·   considering life-time gifts and how they affect your financial plan;
·   the many ways to give to charities and how to involve your children;
·   making gifts after death through wills or trusts.

Questions will be encouraged. 

Join the world renowned, original recycled materials percussionist, Donald Knaack, for a day of music, science and fun!

The Junkman has performed worldwide at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Van's Warped Tour, concerts with Phish, Sundance Film Festival, World Environment Day at the United Nations, and much more.

The Junkman will present three diverse, interactive programs for families.  All programs are for persons with and without prior music experience, and free with museum admission.

http://test.montshire.org/programs/detail/junk-music-with-the-junkman

Renowned Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger will donate casts of specimens from Homo naledi, one of the most significant archaeological finds in recent history, to the Montshire Museum of Science.  Berger, along with Dartmouth Associate Professor of Anthropology Jeremy DeSilva, who helped analyze the bones of Homo naledi, will be presenting the specimens and leading an informal program with Museum visitors.

With over 20 years of stand-up comedy experience, Jim Breuer remains one of today’s top entertainers and continues to win over audiences with his off-the-wall humor and lovable personality. Named one of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time,” Breuer is one of the most recognizable comedians in the business, known for his charismatic stage antics, dead-on impressions, and family-friendly stand-up.

We will explore children's movement explorations and their implications for cognitive, social and emotional development.  We will also cover self-initiated movement, the development of balance and its purpose, and how to hone our observation skills of children's movements.  This is a free event - all are welcome.  Adults only, please.
Jane Swain is a graduate of the Level II training in Spacial Dynamics® , a pediatric physical therapist, an adult educator at Sophia's Hearth Family Center in Keene, NH and consultant to early childhood and grade school classrooms.  www.uvws.org.

  • Special activities are planned throughout the day.
  • L.L. Bean will have a variety of snowshoes to try (11 a.m.– 1 p.m).
  • Morano Gelato will debut their new Montshire flavor (available for purchase).

Bring your friends and save! Groups of 8 or more save $10 per person when placing reservations together. Everyone is welcome, but space is limited.

Visit the auction website to find out more about the 2016 Fiddlehead Fling Benefit Auction.

Montshire Members are invited to celebrate summer at the Montshire, Friday, July 22, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bring your Membership Card and your family for a very special night out! All the Museum's galleries, trails, and David Goudy Science Park will be open, plus... 

• See our featured exhibition, the new Tinkering Loft with 4 zones of engineering fun for a variety of age and difficulty levels.

• Bring a picnic or buy dinner from Montshire's Summer Cafe in the Hughes Pavilion with Classic Catering. For dessert, free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's (while it lasts) courtesy of Hanover Co-op!

• Enjoy a live sneak peek of Northern Stage's Summer Musical Theater Intensive production, School of Rock!

This event is exclusively for current Montshire Members and their guests (up to the number indicated on the Membership Card). Please bring your Membership Card and ID.

​​Instructors: Don Lubin and Alice Schori, fern enthusiasts

​​Location: ​Montshire Museum of Science, ​Norwich, VT

Limit: 16 

Fee: Montshire or New England Wild Flower Society Member: $60, non-member: $72

Co-sponsored by NEWFS

November 4: Selfies with Science

Bring a digital camera or use one of our iPads as we explore the Museum on a photographic safari. Learn how to compose a great photograph while taking the craziest selfies you can imagine. We’ll have the whole museum to ourselves, so there’s no reason to be shy!

Let your inner curiosity run wild! The Montshire is open after hours for adults of all ages. Pull up a stool at the Science Discovery Lab for some amazing activities or simply explore the Museum’s visiting and permanent exhibits on your own. Jasper Murdock Ale and wine from the Norwich Inn and delicious food from a local vendor* will be available for purchase.

Come and spend a Friday evening exploring new skills and hanging out with friends!

Design, create, and build something cool—a robot that draws, an electronic blinky bug, tessellating designs. You’ll have a chance to flex your creativity and bring home incredible creations. Sign up for any (or all) of our fall sessions – or just drop in. Pre-registration encouraged. Each month will feature a different activity. For youth in grades 6–9.

September 16: Wire Sculptures and Soldering

Start off the Montshire Maker season by building crazy sculptures with wire in the Tinkering Loft. We’ll learn to bend, cut, balance, and solder wires to form all sorts of shapes and curves. We’ll end the night by making a human form from wire. 

Montshire Museum members are invited to be the first to experience our new exhibition during special extended hours!

Dinosaur Revolution blends learning and play, inviting visitors to investigate all things dinosaur.
Travel through time and get a dinosaur's eye view! Experience what it's like to crush the earth beneath your gigantic feet as you Make Tracks in the Triassic. Learn to fly as you Glide Through the Jurassic. Return to the present day, earn your Jr. Paleontologist credentials, and engage in the most current dino-debates. Testify in T-Rex's defense, save the natural history museum from an expensive fossil hoax, and scale a
 wall of mysteries as you Climb Through Time.

Norwich Public Library Story Hour
Norwich Public Library  will  read some of their favorite dinosaur themed picture books for those who want a quiet, cozy place to relax; perfect for sleepy-heads and cuddle-bugs! Selected titles will be available for purchase in the Museum Store where members receive a discount on all their purchases. 

Tinkering Loft 
The Tinkering Loft, a Montshire-designed exhibition you won't find anywhere else, still remains in our second floor gallery until October 30. Don't miss your chance to Measure, Build, Stack, Invent and Design!

Why eat dinner at home?
Don't rush to eat before coming to the Museum. Food from Boloco will be available for purchase at the event!

Presented by the Youth Ensemble Studio of Northern Stage in collaboration with the Montshire Museum of Science and Vermont Institute of Natural Science.

Written by Marcos Stafne and Heather Leonardi
Music by Robert Houle
Directed by Eric Love

Monday, October 17 – Namibia with Dan Hopkins
Monday, November 14 – Ireland with Aarne Vesilind
Monday, December 12 – Mongolia with Inge Brown

October 21: Mad Hatter for Halloween Hipness
With Halloween approaching fast, gather at the Museum to create a monstrous mask, ridiculous tiara, or awesome headdress. We’ll have a variety of materials, fabrics, electronic bling, and more to fashion a special one-of-a-kind costume accessory for Halloween!

Saturday, October 22
10:30 a.m.–4 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by Norwich Keeping Track, Norwich Conservation Commission, and Vermont Center for Ecostudies. 

After three decades of international explorations, the volunteers of our Magic Carpet series have crafted their final three travelogues. Join us for this farewell season as we celebrate the world around us and enjoy regionally inspired food. Programs begin at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at noon. All proceeds benefit Montshire’s educational mission.

Monday, October 17 – Namibia with Dan Hopkins
Monday, November 14 – Ireland with Aarne Vesilind
Monday, December 12 – Mongolia with Inge Brown

December 2: Light Up the Upper Valley
Help construct a large map of the Upper Valley and then create your own favorite landmarks, lit up with LEDs. Learn about circuits and lighting as you build miniature architectural models with cardboard, foam core, and a variety of tools and materials. Your creations will be used over the holiday break to inspire the Museum’s visitors to create their own unique village!

After three decades of international explorations, the volunteers of our Magic Carpet series have crafted their final three travelogues. Join us for this farewell season as we celebrate the world around us and enjoy regionally inspired food. Programs begin at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at noon. All proceeds benefit Montshire’s educational mission.

Monday, October 17 – Namibia with Dan Hopkins
Monday, November 14 – Ireland with Aarne Vesilind
Monday, December 12 – Mongolia with Inge Brown

Music inspires creativity, evoking emotion and communicating, on a level that words cannot. Musical instruments are expressions of human design, engineering, and innovation driven by the desires of musical expression. Visitors to Making Music: The Science of Musical Instruments can explore how musical instruments are created and how they are played, investigating the relationship between key design variations, the sounds produced, and stories of the people who make and play musical instruments. 

The exhibits in this exhibition include sections on string instruments, percussion, air instruments, and electronic instruments. Each section includes stories of the people who make and play these instruments, as well as opportunities for visitors to experiment with the ideas and science behind the instruments themselves. Real examples of instruments from each family are on display, with video of musicians playing each.

In addition, a separate exhibit area allows visitors to play in a band together, where they can choose to play either a guitar, a drum set, or a keyboard, to experience how these instruments allow a group of musicians to create music together.

Throughout this new 2,500 square foot exhibition, visitors become a part of the process of both making instruments and playing them.  They discover that all instruments, from a simple flute to a synthesizer, are tools that use science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to make the music that affects us deeply.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s charming comedy follows long-married Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old seafood restaurant owner, as he tries to have one passionate tryst before opportunity passes him by. His attempts to become God’s gift to women offer a hilarious look at a fine fellow who just can’t seem to succeed in sinning.

Running time:  2 hours 15 minutes with one 15 minute intermission.
Advisory:  Ages 12 and up for subject matter.

Celebrate Spring with a special Easter Event Sunday 

Celebrate Spring with Simon Pearce

Sunday, April 23, 12 - 2pm

Enjoy a three-course lunch from our New Spring Menu. Between courses view a floral arranging demonstration by Tedd Kapinos, owner of Jasper & Prudence Floral and Events, and cocktail demonstration by Celebrity Entertaining Expert and Author of Cocktail Chameleon, Mark Addison, in partnership with SILO Distillery.

Space is limited. Reservations Required.

Call 802-295-3655  or visit the restaurant host today to make your reservation.

Cost of the event is $55 per person plus tax, gratuity and additional beverages.