Drop-in at the museum on the second Saturday of each month for hands-on family activities! Do you have a young artist, bookworm, or budding designer at home? In February, join Black Artists + Designers Guild to design your own dream library, in conjunction with their installation “The Underground Library” in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Families will use images and textures to create a space that holds books and special artifacts and welcomes friends and family to relax and be creative.

Black Artists + Designers Guild designer Nina Cooke John will introduce the activity at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in “The Underground Library” featured on the first floor in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Then we will create models of our dream home libraries in the Lecture Room on the ground floor.

Family drop-in activities are designed for youth ages 5–12 and their adult guardian/caregivers. Family programs are included in the price of museum admission, and youth 18 and under are always free.