May 18 - 22
Discovery Museum is closed temporarily due to business restrictions in MA. 
Welcome to your Discovery at Home Weekly Update!
Since you can't come to us, we're coming to you! Sort of. Each week until we reopen, we'll bring you a new video with simple enrichment activities to support your play and learning at home.
Sunday, May 24 th is National Scavenger Hunt Day!

By now you’ve probably heard about, or participated in, one of the Teddy Bear scavenger hunts that are popping-up around the globe. Scavenger hunts and “I spy” inspired activities are great for building identification and observation skills, using new vocabulary (especially descriptive words), and noticing details in the world around you. In honor of National Scavenger Hunt Day, we've put together a few idea s for your next scavenger hunt adventure.
Simple Scavenger Hunt Ideas

Liz, our Director of STEAM Experiences,gives us a few ideas for creating your own scavenger hunt in this short video.
Ways to Celebrate National Scavenger Hunt Day:

  • Go on a number, letter, shape, or color hunt. Try some simple prompts like: can you find all the letters of the alphabet in the living room? How many times can you spot the number 5 as you walk around the neighborhood? Using a small basket or bag, gather 10 orange items from around the house.
  •  Head outside and try your hand, or eye, at our Nature Scavenger Hunt or our Patterns in Nature hunt. Bring along an empty egg carton to collect some of the small natural objects you find on your hunt. The wells are great for keeping your items sorted, and can even be color coded (with a marker or crayon ahead of time) for another way to classify your treasures.
  • Use this Eye Spy guide from the Denver Art Museum to explore paintings, prints, photographs or other art objects around your home. And don’t forget your child’s art! Turn kid-created art into a gallery full of squiggles, straight lines, and swirls just waiting to be noticed. 
  • Speaking of books, go behind the scenes of the classic I SPY book series, with photographer Walter Wick.
  • Admittedly, more complex scavenger hunts can take some serious advanced prep for the adults involved. Check out these ready to go clues to get the fun started faster. Better yet, older kids can use these prompts to design a scavenger hunt for others or as inspiration to write their own hints.
Find more activities from our education team on our Discovery at Home page.
Grow Your Own Potatoes and Support Discovery Museum!

Our friends at Fresh Start Food Gardens are selling Potato Growing Kits for Kids with a portion of each sale helping to support the Museum during our closure and reopening preparations. You may remember that Fresh Start helped us grow food last summer in Discovery Woods. They are committed to providing the valuable health, science, and environmental lessons that come from growing your own food.

Whether you are looking for a project to keep the kids busy while you tend to your own garden, or you don't know a shovel from a rake, these kits are for everyone. You don't even need a yard! Grow potatoes right on your patio or driveway.

Kits are only available for a short time as potato planting season is upon us. Curbside, contact free pickup will take place at the Discovery Museum tentatively scheduled for Thursday, June 4 from 1pm to 3pm.

Each $69 kit includes:
  • Flexible, breathable Earth-friendly raised garden bed - no digging!
  • ​NonGMO, locally sourced Red Adirondack, Blue Adirondack and White Seed Potatoes
  • Organic soil
  • Local, nutritious, aged compost 
  • A biweekly tutorial videos showing you what to expect and how to care for your garden
  • ​Simple, kid-friendly recipes
We want to hear from you!
Discovery Museum will reopen when MA guidelines allow and we can provide for a safe experience for staff and visitors. We want your input on factors we're considering, as we work to put together the best plans and procedures. Take our survey.
Bid for Kids Online Auction Coming Soon!
June 1 - 10

More than 150 items to bid on! Proceeds support the onsite  and  online programs that make the Discovery Museum welcoming and accessible to everyone.
Discovery at Home!
Visit Discovery at Home , our all-new online resource guide for families. Since we can’t play together at the Museum, we want to share with you some of our staff's favorite at-home fun-and-learning activities, along with some of the terrific interactive and at-home resources offered by museums, organizations, and other creators around the world.
To Our Members
All memberships will be extended. Once the Museum re-opens, all memberships will be extended by the number of months we are closed.

Please consider an early renewal . If your renewal date comes up while the Museum is still closed--or, even if it is later in the year--we would appreciate if you would consider renewing at this time. Your support will mean more to us than it ever has, as we work to bounce back from the financial impacts of being closed.

If you have been considering becoming a member, or are looking for a way to support the Museum, please note that new memberships will not be activated until the Museum re-opens. Your support now would have great impact.
We need your help!
As a community-supported nonprofit organization, we've always depended on you to make our exhibits, programs, and services possible. Now, we need our friends more now than ever. Discovery Museum is committed to being here for our community after the pandemic just as it was before, but we need your help as we work to manage the serious financial implications of our closure. If you can, please consider making a donation.
177 Main Street (Route 27)
Acton, Massachusetts 01720
Phone: 978-264-4200