Free museum, free family fun: the Nelson-Atkins’ weekend family programs — including its “Free Weekend Fun” series with themed days like “Bach to Nature,” pairing live music with art-making — turn the grand museum into a giant, gentle playground for young creators.
Families pick up activity guides at the door, hunt for animals in the galleries (the armor hall is a guaranteed hit), make art in the education center studios and refuel at Rozzelle Court. The sculpture park outside doubles as a picnic-and-shuttlecock finish line.
Everything is free — the founders insisted — and weekend family days run through the season, including October’s fall-themed editions.
Kansas City’s most elegant building is also one of its best free family afternoons. The shuttlecocks approve.
