Visiting the Tucson Museum of Art on the second Sunday of the month isn’t your traditional art-museum experience.
Adult $12 admission? Nope. Free.
Slowly sauntering through exhibits, quietly contemplating the art? Not exactly.
Second SundAZe @ TMA features the family-friendly Picture This! event, which is all about being interactive — and just plain active. The program’s been around for awhile, but its previous incarnation involved an hour-long, docent-led tour along with an art project. The revamped event — the next one will be Feb. 12 — is a lot more freewheeling.
Activities are up and running throughout the museum, and visitors can watch performances and jump into art projects. Every month features a different theme, and Feb. 12’s highlights movement, so the University of Arizona School of Dance will stage a performance.
“The whole point of it is just to have a fun, play-based activity where everyone can have fun and be engaged in the museum in a way that they haven’t before,” said Heidi Herboldsheimer, TMA’s museum educator for k-12 programming.
The event features free admission for Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, residents. Picture This! is targeted at kids fifth-grade and younger, but Herboldsheimer said a mom came in recently — with her grown son.
“It’s about engaging everybody and anybody,” she said.
