Art Inspired
September 23, 2025 - August 9, 2026
The Children’s Museum at La Habra is very happy to present our Fall 2025 Changing Gallery Exhibit, Art Inspired. This highly interactive and immersive exhibit will highlight three important genres of art style and several important artists.
Children will be able to walk through the Monet painting “The Water Lily Pond with the Japanese Bridge” to enter an immersive world of art. To the left will be Leonardo DaVinci’s workshop, where kids can leaf through one of his notebooks, interact with inspirational objects on his desk, and work at his easel to color the Mona Lisa. Or they can climb the scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel to lay on their backs to sketch Michelangelo’s ceiling pictures. To the right, they can ‘become a masterpiece’ by dressing up as an artist and entering their self-portraits.
In the Impressionism area, kids will dress up in Victorian costumes and quietly read about art in Monet’s row-boat on the pond at Giverny, or they can sit under the umbrella in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte and create their own Pointillism painting to take home. In the Abstract area, kids will learn about Salvador Dali and Jackson Pollock as well as some contemporary “kid” artists, and then enter the “Hexagon”, where they can paint on clear acrylic panels to create their own abstract art. The Timeline Spiral will point out important genres and artists from the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux to the contemporary art and artists of today.