Youth Programs
Stimulate your family’s imagination and inspire a love of art from around the world as you explore our museum together!
MFA Members enjoy FREE admission to the MFA, including discounted or free admission to our youth programs and events, all year. You’ll also get exclusive previews for special exhibitions, discounts at Café Clementine and the MFA Shop, and more. We have a Family level membership that includes admission for up to five household members! Join today!
Summer Camp at the MFA
Join us for a fun and educational summer camp experience at the MFA, exploring a wide range of activities designed to illuminate 5,000 years of human history! Tree-climbing, art history, culinary explorations, music, scavenger hunts, art-making experiences, and more. The MFA Campus provides a range of exciting opportunities, indoors and out.
Learn more about our 2024 Summer Camp Experiences at the MFA
All ages
Sensory Saturdays
The MFA welcomes families with children who have sensory processing disorders and other sensory-related disabilities to explore the galleries with us each month! During this time, all rotating audio components will be turned down or muted to ensure a calm environment.
Second Saturdays, 10 am to 12 pm. Free for members, through Museums for All, or with the cost of admission.
ALL AGES
PAINTING IN THE PARK
Bring your little artists downtown for a day of hands-on fun at the Museum of Fine Arts! This event will include 10 art and activity stations for kids to create their own masterpieces inspired by the MFA Collection, including chalk art along Bayshore Drive inspired by Mary Proctor’s “Dancing on the Street Pave in Gold”; an archaeology dig inspired by the MFA’s antiquities galleries; a pop-up poppy field inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Poppy”; and so much more!
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 10 am to 2 pm. Free for everyone.
Learn more about Painting in the Park
Grades K-6
Art Break with the MFA!
Tap into your creative side with art projects you can do at home, inspired by the MFA Collection and our special exhibitions. Explore the activities here!
MFA youth programs are made possible in part by Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Creative Pinellas, Pinellas Community Foundation, Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, RBC Wealth Management, The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, Truist Foundation, and support through MFA memberships and donations to the MFA Fund.