Saturday, December 7, 2024
Session 1: 10:00–11:30 am
Session 2: 1:30–3:00 pm
$15 per person (students/adults/seniors)
10% Discount for Basic, Gold, and Patron Museum membership levels
$2 admission for up to 4 people ACCESS Philly/Museums for All cardholders
Ages 5 and up. No experience necessary.
Space is limited; advanced ticket purchase required.

Join us for a delightful family-friendly felting workshop where creativity meets Christmas cheer! Under the guidance of skilled felting instructor, Eva Mergen, participants will create beautiful Nativity-themed felted art pieces. All materials are provided, and no prior experience is necessary. Perfect for all ages, this workshop is a wonderful way to get into the holiday spirit!

Access to Glencairn’s first floor World Nativities exhibition and seek & find interactive are included in the $15 fee.

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Saturday, April 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2024
12:00–3:00 pm
$300 per person, includes materials fee of $100 per person
10% discount for members

Registration required by Wednesday, April 3, 2024

We are back for round two of stained-glass fabrication! Led by instructor Elizabeth DaCrema, this four-week intensive workshop builds on the fundamentals of stained-glass fabrication and invites students to bring their own ideas and designs to life. This workshop is designed for returning students or students with prior stained-glass fabrication experience. Students will be asked to create and share a design cartoon ahead of time and have a short discussion prior to the first class to evaluate their ideas with the instructor.

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Saturday, April 9, 2022

9:00 am–12:00 pm

$45 per person
Basic, Gold and Patron Membership Levels receive a 10% discount.

Ages 16 and up. Basic yoga experience necessary.

Registration required by Wednesday, April 6.

Join Michelle Synnestvedt for this multi-layered yoga workshop designed to thread you back to your essential self. During this morning retreat Michelle will guide you through a journey supported by the East Indian oral tradition, using East Indian mythology, yoga poses, meditation, and chanting.

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Saturday, March 5, 2022

9:00 am–5:00 pm EST

Registration is $125 and includes lunch and refreshments.

Registration is required by Monday, February 28. Financial assistance is available.

Glencairn Museum and Elif M. Gökçiğdem, Ph.D. invite you to join us in person for this exciting, hands-on workshop in the inspiring setting of Glencairn Museum’s spacious Great Hall.

Dr. Gökçiğdem (author and founder of ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy) will offer group instruction on theory, program development, and practical application following the Designing for Empathy™ framework. Using objects from the Glencairn Museum collection, workshop participants will develop empathy-building skills through group discussions, prototyping exercises, and facilitator feedback.

This in-person experience is a follow-up to the first Designing for Empathy™ workshop held virtually in April 2021. The content of this second workshop is complete and stands alone. Previous workshop experience is not required. Workshop participants will receive links to resources and recordings to enhance their knowledge on empathy-building through museums and join a growing network of empathy-builders, where year-round work, cross-departmental, and institutional collaboration is encouraged.

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Thursday, April 15, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Join us as we listen to keynote speaker Elif M. Gökçiğdem (founder, Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative), with expert panel guests Makeba Clay (Philips Collection) and Senior Research Scientist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D (Yale University) discuss the importance of fostering empathy through intentional program and exhibition design. Hear about the inspiring new ways in which museums and other institutions are enhancing desired impacts for audiences and institutional culture change around the world. Philip Himberg (MacDowell) will then engage participants in his informative and enjoyable “Creative Tensions“ exercise, demonstrating what empathy-building can look and feel like.

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

PLEASE NOTE: As of Tuesday, March 3, this workshop is SOLD OUT.

$40 per person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary. Materials included. Registration required by Wednesday, February 26 (for the February 29 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Registration required by Wednesday, March 4 (for the March 7 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Participants will have exclusive access to and a customized tour of our Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Belief in Ancient Egypt exhibition as well as jewelry displayed in our Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Galleries. This will be followed by a make-your-own beading workshop focusing on the symbolism of beads throughout history. There will be a marketplace offering items for purchase including special beads from Africa.

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Saturday, February 29, 2020

9:00 am -1:00 pm

$40 per person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary. Materials included. Registration required by Wednesday, February 26 (for the February 29 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Registration required by Wednesday, March 4 (for the March 7 date). Click the Book Your Tour button to sign up.

Participants will have exclusive access to and a customized tour of our Sacred Adornment: Jewelry as Belief in Ancient Egypt exhibition as well as jewelry displayed in our Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Galleries. This will be followed by a make-your-own beading workshop focusing on the symbolism of beads throughout history. There will be a marketplace offering items for purchase including special beads from Africa.

Purchase Tickets

$40 per person. Ages 18 and up. No experience necessary. Space is limited. Registration required by December 4. Call 267-502-2990 to register.

PLEASE NOTE: AS OF DECEMBER 1 THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

Rekindle old memories or start new traditions with the creation of this decoration based on the traditional Pennsylvania German-style Christmas Putz (a landscaped Nativity scene). This year Glencairn’s World Nativities exhibition features the historic Jennie Trein Christmas Putz from the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

About the instructors: Karen Loccisano and R. Michael Palan have 20 years of experience designing mass market Christmas ornaments and decor for the Kurt S. Adler Company based in New York City. The husband-and-wife team have also created elaborate, original Nativities, which they have exhibited at Glencairn Museum for several years during the Christmas season.

$20/person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary; all materials included.
Registration has been extended to Friday, March 1. Call 267-502-2990 to register.

Elaine and Matt Vardjan teach the art of creating German paper stars (Froebel stars). The folded German star is an old paper craft that was popularized by Friedrich Froebel in the early 1800s in Germany. It is likely that Froebel did not invent the star, as it is believed to be a craft that was generally known for some time. Combinations of individual stars can be used to make other items known as “Star Craft,” including crosses, baskets, and mobiles. You can find some of the basic shapes of the Froebel star in certain barn star patterns painted on Pennsylvania buildings.

Additional session added by popular demand!

$35/person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary; all materials included.
Registration required. Call 267-502-2990 or email info@glencairnmuseum.org to register.

Custom tour featuring rarely seen ancient Egyptian jewelry from our vault, followed by a make-your-own beading workshop focusing on the symbolism of beads throughout history, with an emphasis on symbols that come from nature.

$35/person. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary; all materials included.
Registration required by Monday, February 11. Call 267-502-2990 or email info@glencairnmuseum.org to register.

The session on February 16 is SOLD OUT. A second session has been added on Saturday, February 23, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. Call 267-502-2990 to register today.

Custom tour featuring rarely seen ancient Egyptian jewelry from our vault, followed by a make-your-own beading workshop focusing on the symbolism of beads throughout history, with an emphasis on symbols that come from nature.