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Sensory Friendly Mornings at the Bruce Museum

Friday morning, April 18, from 9–10:30 am, the Bruce Museum is hosting a sensory friendly morning for families. Before the Museum opens to the public on April 18, visitors with sensory sensitivities are welcome to enjoy hands-on, drop-in activities in the Museum’s Cohen Education Wing, a cozy story nook in the Lockhart Lookout, and an interactive sensory soft space in the Museum’s Gale and Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. and Pamela and Robert Goergen Auditorium in addition to a social narrative,…

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April 18, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

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1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 United States

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Friday morning, April 18, from 9–10:30 am, the Bruce Museum is hosting a sensory friendly morning for families. Before the Museum opens to the public on April 18, visitors with sensory sensitivities are welcome to enjoy hands-on, drop-in activities in the Museum’s Cohen Education Wing, a cozy story nook in the Lockhart Lookout, and an interactive sensory soft space in the Museum’s Gale and Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. and Pamela and Robert Goergen Auditorium in addition to a social narrative, quiet spaces, and high contrast lighting.

Drop-in Activities and Sensory Bins: Cohen Education Wing

Cozy Reading Nook: Lockhart Lookout

Noise reducing earmuffs will be available to borrow at the Education Desk in the Cohen Education Wing; please reserve a pair at info@brucemuseum.org.

Sensory Friendly Mornings at the Bruce Museum are generously supported by Art Bridges through a grant for the exhibition Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist. If you have questions or would like to book a group for the morning, please email education@brucemuseum.org.

Free admission for children 18 and under.

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