Friday, September 26, 2008

Fun, cool stuff for families to do around Amherst

FREE MUSEUM PASSES!
Free passes family passes are available
at the Jones Library!! All you have to do is call or stop by to pick them up. Eric Carle Museum / Boston Museum of Fine Arts / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Clark Art Institute / Historic Deerfield / Holyoke Children's Museum / Mass MoCA / Smith College Museum of Art / Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle / The Zoo in Forest Park / Mystic Aquarium/ Wadsworth Athenaeum


DINOSAURS!
The Amhest College Musuem of Natural History is FREE to the public from 11am-4pm Tuesday - Sunday. Just stroll right in to see incredible, towering skeletons (including a wooly mammoth!) and the worlds largest collection of dinosaur footprints (many collected right here in Amherst).

FREE STORY TIMES FOR LITTLE ONES
Hitchcock Center: Nature's Storytime Tuesdays at 11:00am
Jones Library: Preschool Storytime Thursdays at 10:30am
Barnes and Noble: Preschool Stories and Crafts Thursdays at 11:00am
Barnes and Noble: Friday night Stories, Fridays at 5:30pm
Eric Carle Museum: Storytime, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday at 10:30am, Saturday & Sunday at 2:00pm
The Toy Box: Storytime Sundays at 11:30am

FREE CHESS CLUB @ THE JONES

Junior Chess Club (grades 3 – 5) Saturdays from 2 - 3 pm (Oct. 4, Nov. 1, Dec. 6, Jan. 3, Feb. 7, Mar. 7)
Senior Chess Club (grades 6 & up) Saturdays from 3:30 - 5 pm (Oct. 4, Nov. 1, Dec. 6, Jan. 3, Feb. 7, Mar. 7)