What To Do at the SM&NC
Featured Events & Programs
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
