A new festive winter tradition is coming to the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) this month.
CMC will celebrate the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year — on Saturday, Dec. 20 with Festive Frolic, featuring puppet shows, storytimes, crafts and more. The event will also offer up a taste of some holiday dishes, like sugar plums, latkes and hot cups of wassail, from the museum’s chefs and food scientists.
Attendees can also listen to an old-fashioned radio reading of Clement-Clarke Moore’s The Night Before Christmas, and there will be a dance party in the Children’s Museum. Or, make your own stained-glass mistletoe or print your own bookmark at the craft demonstrations. Mad scientists will also be on hand to conduct fun and chilly experiments with dry ice and liquid nitrogen.
Festive Frolic will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the museum. See the full schedule:
Cincinnati History Museum
All day: Gather ‘round the Radio: The Night Before Christmas (You Are Here)
11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Maker Moment: Stained Glass Mistletoe (History in the Making Classroom)
1-2:30 p.m.: Print Your Own Bookmark (History in the Making Classroom)
The Children’s Museum
11 a.m.: April Eight Songs and Stories (Corbett Theater)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Solstice Dance Party (Corbett Theater)
12:30-1 p.m.: Holiday Harmonies Sing Along (Corbett Theater)
1-3 p.m.: Storytime and Diya making with the Cultural Centre of India (KidSPACE)
3-5 p.m.: KidSPACE Holiday Programming (KidSPACE)
Museum of Natural History & Science
11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.: Solstice Shivers Stage Show (Science Stage)
Rotunda
11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Broadcast to the Past: Holiday Hits (Newsreel Theater)
11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Caroling Cuisine (Cr(eat)e Culinary Studio)
1:30 p.m.: Puppet Show (Newsreel Theater)
2:30-4 p.m.: Pogie and Patter’s Reindeer Sing-along Extravaganza (Newsreel Theater)
Festive Frolic activities are included with the cost of museum admission and free for members.
Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave., West End. More info: cincymuseum.org.
