Arts and Culture

This is a class for all, with or without any kind of physical limitation and have the option of dancing sitting on the chair if needed. So that each of you will discover your flamenco with your style.

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about a few of the 19th-century American women whose portraits are displayed in our galleries.

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Celebrate the opening of our Munch exhibition by hearing from the exhibition organizers and specialists from the Munchmuseet, Oslo.

Come try your hand at making a beautiful pin or magnet!

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes.

No registration is required. Please call (617) 349-4019 for details.

In honor of International Women’s Day, this seminar will look at paintings of Mary, or Maryam, from India and Iran, and why they were popular.

Come discover the work of Maarten van Heemskerck, the Haarlem painter who represented the Italian Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands.

Looking for a space to unleash your creativity?

Did you know you can vote for a winner in the Massachusetts Children's Book Award each year?

You're invited to our March Brewery Book Club, where Lamplighter and the Cambridge Public Library team up to highlight contemporary works from marginalized voices while having a beer.

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories and rhymes. 

Hannah Gadway will explore the intersection of art and law, particularly how the law has served to protect artists, art, and collectors.

We invite children and their caregivers for 20-25 minutes of stories and songs.

Put on your dancing shoes and head over for a morning of singing and dancing! We'll sing and move together, and share a story or two. For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Join us for a half hour of stories for children of all ages and their caregivers.

Join Marie Prunières to learn more about the photographic tapestries of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali, in this talk given in French.

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Milen Negasi and Hanna Carney will explore the theme of glory through the works of three Black American artists.

Jieyan Wang ’25 will explore representations of flowers in the history of art and related issues of symbolism, materiality, and abstraction.

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 15-20 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes. 

No registration is required. Please call 617-349-4019 for details.

It's a Library dance party!

We encourage visitors to our exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking to attend a film about the artist at the Harvard Film Archive.

Join us for a new hour-long program, featuring thirty minutes of songs and stories and thirty minutes of open play!

Our Magic Tree House book group is for kids ages 5-10.

Our Merlin Missions book group is for Magic Tree House fans ages 5-10 who are ready for these longer adventures about Jack and Annie!

Join us for a screening of Art for Everybody, which focuses on the darker side of painter Thomas Kinkade, followed by a conversation.