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Touch-Free Family Day: Día de los Muertos

Nov 07, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM

Great Hall

Ticket Price: Free with Museum admission

Decorate a traditional sugar skull and craft tissue paper cempasuchil (marigolds). Explore the Latin American galleries with a bilingual self-paced scavenger hunt in Spanish or English and learn more about Día de los Muertos with a link to a bilingual story time video. Participate in our interactive Día de los Muertos installation.

Enjoy a live musical performace by Azul Barrientos from 12:00–1:00 p.m in the River Pavillion.

Link for art activity video demonstrations, virtual story time, and self-guided gallery walk available in the art kit. Art kits are first come, first served.

Free for SAISD students and families.

Limited art kits available.

Family Programs have been generously underwritten by grants from H-E-B and the Faye L. and William L. Cowden Charitable Foundation. 

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