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Family Day: Art of Ancient Greece

Join us on Saturday, September 21 in the Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom for a Family Day inspired by the legacy of ancient Greece! Each Session will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. During this Family Day event, kids ages 4-10 will decorate black-and-red Greek vases and design figures of gods and goddesses from ancient myth! They’ll go on a scavenger hunt, and can also check out our model of the world’s first “planetary computer,” the ancient…

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September 21, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm

where

1073 North Benson Rd
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States

cost

Free

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Fairfield University Art Museum

203.254.4000 ext. 2726

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Join us on Saturday, September 21 in the Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom for a Family Day inspired by the legacy of ancient Greece!
Each Session will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m.
During this Family Day event, kids ages 4-10 will decorate black-and-red Greek vases and design figures of gods and goddesses from ancient myth! They’ll go on a scavenger hunt, and can also check out our model of the world’s first “planetary computer,” the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism!

Image: Phidias, Lemnian Athena, painted plaster cast after marble original in Museo Civico di Bologna (TC2024.01.01)

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The Museum will be closed in observance of the following holidays: New Year’s Day – Wednesday, January 1, 2025 Easter – Sunday, April 20, 2025 Memorial Day – Monday, May 26, 2025 Independence Day – Friday, July 4, 2025 Labor Day – Monday, September 1, 2025 Veteran’s Day – Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 27, 2025 Christmas Eve- Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 3 PM through New Year’s Day – Thursday, January 1, 2026

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Exhibition organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well…

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Exhibition: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann

Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria,…

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