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Featured Events & Programs

OPENING DAY!

SM&NC Sunday
Farm Market

Sundays, beginning June 15
10 am – 2 pm

The SM&NC Sunday Farm Market is back and better than ever! Join us today and each and every Sunday through November 2 to support local agriculture. Come pick up great products and produce, and shop small!

Admission to the market is free – no tickets or Membership required, come shop local!

Orchestra Lumos at the SM&NC

The Garden of Adonis

Sunday, June 22
3 pm

As an Orchestra Lumos partner and Small Space Series host, we are delighted to present this concert in our Knobloch Family Farmhouse.

The varied program will showcase the versatility of the much-loved instrumental combination of harp and flute.

ARTFUL ADVENTURES

Painting with Tools

Wednesday, June 25
2:30 – 3:30 pm

We’ll tour our current exhibition, Tools as Art: Work and Play, and then put some tools to work ourselves to create some art!

Using hammers, brushes and other items, participants will put their skills to the test to make masterpieces to take home.

 

NOW ON VIEW

Tools as Art: Work and Play

On view June 13  – Sept 8, 2025

in our Bendel Mansion Museum Galleries

Organized from the Hechinger Collection and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this exhibition celebrates the transformation of common industrial objects into extraordinary works of art. It explores tools as icons of labor, labor as a component of creativity, and creativity as a form of play. 

CAMPAIGN FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Phase II: Planetarium & Astronomy Center Underway

On the morning of May 23, 2023, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center officially broke ground on the Phase II Planetarium & Astronomy Center. 

The 11,000-square-foot facility will reinvigorate a core pillar of the SM&NC’s Mission and bring our organization’s Planetarium and Observatory programs under the same roof for the first time in our 90-year history. Astronomy programming has long been a Mission signature ever since our first astronomy classes were held in 1941. They continue to this day, and will abound in the years to come.

Upcoming Programs & Events

Nov 2

Daily Otter Feeding

November 2 @ 12:00 pm

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Nov 3

Daily Otter Feeding

November 3 @ 12:00 pm

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Nov 4

Daily Otter Feeding

November 4 @ 12:00 pm

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Nov 5

Daily Otter Feeding

November 5 @ 12:00 pm

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Support the Stamford Museum & Nature Center

We are a not-for-profit organization and our programs are only possible with your support.