Museum & Archives Events

On July 24th at 2pm learn about Screen Printing with Spark Box Studios at the Allan Macpherson House in Napanee.

It's a Historical Play Day at the Allan Macpherson House & Park in Napanee. On July 25th at 2pm, join us in the gardens and go back in time to spend the afternoon with Henrietta at Willow Castle.  Dress up in historical clothing, play games, and do crafts from the 1800’s.  Amber will also read an excerpt from the Secret of Willow Castle in the garden. 

You're invited to spend the afternoon watching Elaine Burnette turn pieces of bark and wood into beautiful whimsical houses using hand whittling tools. She loves to share her passion for wood carving and talk about what drew her to the craft.  

Join puppet-maker Clelia Scala at the Allan Macpherson House & Park in Napanee as she takes you through the steps of designing and creating a hand puppet. By watching Clelia make these puppets, you will learn how you can use common house hold material and with your imagination turn it into a character of your very own.

Denise Frizelle from the Soap Shack visits the Allan Macpherson House & Park on August 2nd. Denise will be demonstrating the art of soap felting.  

The Macpherson House welcomes you to DuffleBag Theatre’s rendition of Peter Pan.  Since 1992, The “Nearly World-Famous” DuffleBag Theatre has traveled the globe with their original adaptations of fairy tales and classic stories.  With wit and humor for all ages, DuffleBag creates theatrical magic by inviting up audience members as the stars of the show!

Gather your friends Under the Stars outside at the Allan Macpherson House & Park and welcome the renowned Toronto based-theatre company Driftwood Theatre as they perform Rosalind of As you Like it.  

Try your hand at spinning clay with 4Cats studio at the Allan Macpherson House & Park. Have first-hand experience using a pottery wheel and making small clay sculptures.  Kits can be purchased to make at home and dried in your oven.

Join the Barefoot Players as we explore our favorite inventions and their stories, from earmuffs to trampolines! We can't wait to travel throughout time and find out where some of our everyday things come from through story, songs, lots of laughs, while making new friends on the way to our own scientific breakthroughs!

Join Wendy Cain at the Macpherson House in Napanee for a hands-on demonstration of papermaking will introduce the participants to basic sheet forming with paper pulp and allow the participants to work with colored paper pulps and prepared stencils to create a unique paper work which they can take home.

Join Tim Nimigan in the gardens of the Allan Macpherson House in Napanee to watch and learn how to draw caricatures. You can also get a caricature done of yourself by Tim Nimigan for $10. A free activity will also be available, bring a picture that you would like to draw and learn the steps to turn it into a caricature.  

Sue from Sage Leaf Whimsy will be at the Allan Macpherson House & Park in Napanee on August 23rd at 2pm. She'll demonstrate some non-traditional methods of using the materials of stained glass construction and the odd material that doesn't appear in traditional stained glass work.

Join Peggy Collins in the Macpherson House gardens for an afternoon of stories and illustrating.  Peggy will be reading her book “In The Garden”.  She will also be teaching everyone the art of illustrating, with activities suitable for children of all ages.  Bring your favorite teddy for story time and inspiration for your own story.

It's a Historical Play Day at the Allan Macpherson House & Park in Napanee. On August 29th at 2pm, join staff in the gardens and go back in time to spend the afternoon with Henrietta at Willow Castle.  Dress up in historical clothing, play games, and do crafts from the 1800’s.  Amber will also read an excerpt from the Secret of Willow Castle in the garden. 

Join Blades of Glory and participate in an audience friendly story telling of “The Sword in the Stone” and “Thorbolt”.  Blades of Glory will be presenting two stories: "Sword in the Stone" and "Thorbolt".  Two presenters will be dressed in costume and will use volunteers, costumes and props to help them tell these stories to a mesmerized audience.

In conjunction with “My Story, My Tattoo” a featured travelling exhibit this summer, the L&A County Museum invites you to celebrate the culture of tattoos with a special program of art, dance, and tattoos.