Upcoming Events

Ages 7-10.  45 min.  Ticket required.  Tickets will be available 15 minutes before class. Don't let history be a mystery!  Learn about comics in a fun way that will bring it alive. Includes stories, activities, and a craft...

Assigned a History Day project? Not sure about a topic? Join us for a workshop that delves into a wide selection of topics that fit the theme of Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences, through multiple lenses. Learn how ...

Assigned a History Day project? Not sure about a topic? Join us for a workshop that delves into a wide selection of topics that fit the theme of Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences, through multiple lenses. Learn...

What is History Day? What makes a quality History Day Project? How do you locate primary sources? Answer those questions while learning research strategies and tools from the experts, including librarians, researchers, and History Day Judges. Plea...

What is History Day? What makes a quality History Day Project? How do you locate primary sources? Answer those questions while learning research strategies and tools from the experts, including librarians, researchers, and History Day Judges. ...

Ages 11-17, with parent. 90 min. Registration required. Assigned a National History Day project? Our research experts have tips and tools for you. Meet history day judges and learn strategies to locate sources.    ...

Assigned a National History Day project? Our research experts have tips and tools for you. Meet history day judges and learn strategies to locate sources. Parents welcome. ...

Ages: 11-17 with parent.  60 min.  Registration required.  Please only register your student. Assigned a National History Day project? Our research experts have tips and tools for you. Meet History Day judges and learn&nbs...

A solid thesis is the foundation for any NHD project. Explore the theme Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences. Discuss ways to evolve a topic into a working thesis, then into a blueprint for an argument that examines the ...

A solid thesis is the foundation for any NHD project. Explore the theme Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences. Discuss ways to evolve a topic into a working thesis, then into a blueprint for an argument tha...

How do we look at a work of art? Practice your skill at close looking to gain a deeper understanding of works from the Walter’s collection. What will you notice? And, what does it mean? The next class in this series:   Nov 10 @ 1PM-...

Ages 6-9; 45 min. Ticket required. Did you know that kids can vote, too? Celebrate National Voter Education Week with us. Find out how kids can vote any day - or every day! - and other important things kids can do during election season. We'l...

Ages 6-9; 45 min. Ticket required. Did you know that kids can vote, too? Celebrate National Voter Education Week with us. Find out how kids can vote any day - or every day! - and other important things kids can do during election season. We'l...

Ages 7-10.  45 min.  Ticket required.  Tickets will be available 15 minutes before class. Don't Let History Be a Mystery!  Learn about Howard County haunts in a fun way that will bring it alive. Includes stories, activitie...

According to the Howard County Housing Opportunities Master Plan, “Today, nearly one in five residents of Howard County is Black, but there are several neighborhoods where they represent fewer than one in twenty people.”1 Learn more about housing ...

Symbols are a form of communication that we encounter in our lives each day. Tour participants will explore how European artists in the Renaissance and Baroque periods used religious, allegorical, moral, and mythical symbols. Consider the symbolism i...

Ages 7-10.  45 min.  Ticket required.  Tickets will be available 15 minutes before class. Don't Let History Be a Mystery!   Learn about early Native Americans and the first Thanksgiving. Includes stories, activities, ...

  From books, to films, to art, our culture is full of fantastical creatures. Participants will consider how contemporary fantastical creatures connect with objects from the Walters’ ancient collections from China, the Americas, the Mediterra...

For a millennium, Chinese artists achieved great heights in the making of ceramics, inventing new techniques and decorations. Explore the finest examples of Ming and Qing porcelains in the Walters collection, and the historical, cultural, and religio...