Travel back to the 1960s and design your own paper doll with fashions inspired by NUMU’s exhibition I Know A Place. Using cut pattern paper and colored pencils, mix and match outfits in this drop-in activity located in the MakerSpace.
Come see what's new at NUMU! At New Museum Los Gatos, Girl Scouts will have fun looking at, talking about, and making art with our inventive museum educators and artists. Our Girl Scouts workshops introduce techniques that teach participants to express themselves and explore their world--with art!
Give old books new life and celebrate what makes you unique! We will meet at NUMU for a tour of work by book and fiber artist Jody Alexander in Stitches & Wiggles. Then, we will re-purpose discarded book pages into self-portrait collages.
Join local artist John Paul Amaral for a beading circle and conversation on its significance in Native American Indigenous cultures. John Paul will introduce students to methods of beadwork to create a traditional hairpipe choker necklace. While creating their own treasures, the beading circle will host a conversation about the significance of beadwork in American Indigenous cultures, how the art expanded over time, and its place in living history.
NUMU's Circle members are invited to join us for a visit to Santa Clara. First, we’ll stop by Obelisk Gallery, featuring art by Steve Dellicarpini and Joe Miller. Then, we’ll move to the Triton Museum of Art.
Have you read Of Mice & Men? The Grapes of Wrath? East of Eden? Did you know that the author of these classic books, John Steinbeck, was a Los Gatos local? Join us at the museum to learn more about his history! We will be joined by archivist Peter Van Coutren from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at SJSU.
Join us at NUMU to celebrate the opening of Salon Jane: Resonance, featuring new works of traditional, alternative process, digital, and mixed media photographic art. The works in this exhibition highlight the innovation and collective wisdom that emerge from this unique artistic group.
At the reception, you'll have the opportunity to engage with these incredible artworks and enjoy refreshments, company, and remarks from the artists and curator!
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
This Free First Sunday, enjoy a tour by exhibiting artist Jody Alexander of her work in Stitches & Wiggles: Unraveled and Reimagined Mixed Media Art by Jody Alexander and Thomas Campbell. Jody Alexander is a book, fiber, and mixed media artist who includes textiles, objects, wall pieces, garments, and installations in her art practice. Her work is inspired by the art of repair, reuse, and by the imagery and stories encountered in her travels on the ground and in the water.
In this 3-hour workshop led by exhibiting artist Jody Alexander, you will learn how to create your own hand-printed fabric! You are invited to bring something from home to embellish (pants, dress, shirt, tablecloth, curtain, etc.) You will also design your own set of two dish towels with your stencils.
Join NUMU this March to commemorate Irish-American Heritage Month through the cultural art of Celtic knots. The diversity of Celtic knots throughout woven, rock-carved, painted, and printed works is a timeless and ongoing practice. Visitors will be able to use pipe cleaners to make three types of Celtic knots: the triquesta, heart, and dara knots.
Over 100 years ago, multi-millionaire Andrew Carnegie built almost 2000 libraries across the U.S., including the one that used to stand in Los Gatos! Join us as we learn what happened to this vanished landmark. Featuring special guest, Shawnte Santos, from the Los Gatos Library!
In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!
Spend an afternoon at NUMU learning how to make a stitched mixed media art piece that chronicles a memory or life event with our exhibiting artist, Susan Hyde Greene. In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn how to use photographic images, paper, and thread to create pieced, stitched, cut-apart, and reassembled artworks relaying stories of personal memory and/or meaningful life events.
Learn about the art of bookmaking at NUMU! We will explore how books are made and try a variety of bookmaking techniques for ourselves. Girl Scout Cadettes will fold, stitch, staple, and experiment with bookmaking tools to make fun and functional books. We will use a variety of interesting papers and design our own marbled paper using shaving cream!
Join us as we learn about local history and hear from Los Gatos artists Rick Guidice & Susan Jaekel.
Join us to celebrate the talented exhibiting high school artists and the announcement of the award recipients of ArtNow 2026: Before / Between / Beyond. We invite the community to honor the emerging artists’ accomplishments, explore the exhibition, and enjoy art activities.
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about true crime in old Los Gatos!
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about Mountain Charley, the man, the myth, the legend.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about The Cats Estate and its historic residents, Charles E.S. Wood and Sara Bard Field. We will be joined by Los Gatos historian Alan Feinberg.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about violinist and composer Yehudi Menuhin. We will be joined by musician Robert Huguenor.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about the agriculture and canneries of the South Bay.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about Neal Cassady, a local author, and the Beat Generation. We will be joined by publisher Dan Pulcano.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about a local historic school for Chinese girls, Ming Quong.
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Join book and fiber artist Jody Alexander (on view in Stitches & Wiggles) at NUMU for an afternoon of learning all things mending. In this 3-hour workshop, the artist will teach a variety of mending techniques. Mending techniques are used to repair and strengthen garments and other textile items. But, when left visible, the repairs are also decorative and add texture, line, color, and can be quite charming! The techniques can also be used in paper and textile art pieces.
Come see what's new at NUMU! At New Museum Los Gatos, Girl Scouts will have fun looking at, talking about, and making art with our inventive museum educators and artists. Our Girl Scouts workshops introduce techniques that teach participants to express themselves and explore their world--with art!
Join us at the museum to learn more about the history of the local newspapers in Los Gatos.
In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Inspired by book and fiber artist Jody Alexander, you are invited to drop into the makerspace and create your own accordion book. You will learn how to fold and glue pages to create twelve spaces, one for each month of the year.
Join us for additional open hours & free admission. Make a festive craft, enjoy drinks, and fantastic art & history exhibitions for you to explore.
Join us at the museum to learn more about the history of the local historic Opera House.
NUMU's Circle members are invited to join us at the Euphrat Museum to tour the invitational group show Invoke-History. We will hear from curator Diana Argabrite and exhibiting artist Kristin Lindseth.
Invoke-History, named for a software command used to retrieve or repeat past commands, is an exhibition of artwork drawn from lived, ancestral, and community stories that preserve and present history through the artists' creative lens.
Join Ebb & Flow artists Chieko Shimizu Fujioka and Margaret Luo for a tour during the museum’s Free First Sunday! Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Visit NUMU in December to create your own beaded tassel ornament. Explore using yarn, beads, and color to create your own tassel design inspired by the holiday season. Hang it on a tree, attach it to a wrapped present, or share as a handmade gift.
In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!
NUMU Los Gatos is proud to host the first Peace, Love + Art Benefit on November 15 at La Rinconada Country Club. The evening will feature a live art auction, dinner, an awards celebration, dancing, and fun! The theme is groovy ‘60s as we celebrate our 60th Anniversary.
Meet us at New Museum Los Gatos, where the NUMU Team will arrange a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a few objects from their collection for children ages 7-16. We will focus on adding shadows and light to our drawings.
All materials are provided. Registration opens 3 weeks prior to the event.
Join us at the museum to learn more about the history of the local historic company Los Gatos Soda Works.
Join NUMU this November for DIY drawstring pouches! Plan and cut the fabric. Then, learn how to create a running stitch to turn it into a sachet. This nifty craft brings together stitchery and utility.
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
We need your help! We are seeking up to 2 volunteers, ages 16+, to walk around downtown Los Gatos to distribute posters for an upcoming museum event. Volunteers will stop by the museum front desk to pick up a bag with posters, materials, & instructions.
Have a spook-tacular day! Crafters of all ages can enjoy free admission & 4 spooky crafts for Halloween and Día de los Muertos at the museum 10 AM-4 PM. We’ll be making popsicle stick spiderwebs, yarn mummies, paper marigolds, and nicho boxes!
Ages 0-5 are invited to join the Los Gatos Library for a Halloween Storytime & Trick-or-Treat Parade at 11-11:45 AM on the Civic Center Lawn.
Make paper nichos and tissue paper marigolds for le Día de Los Muertos!
Join us to celebrate our two newest exhibitions, Stitches & Wiggles and Encounters. You'll have the opportunity to engage with these stunning artworks, enjoy refreshments, good company, and remarks from the artists and curator!
Meet us at New Museum Los Gatos, where the NUMU team will arrange a (fake decor) skeleton and a (decor) dog skeleton along with a few spooky objects from our collection for children ages 7-16 to sketch on black or gray paper with white drawing pencils. All materials are provided. Registration opens 3 weeks prior to the event.
Join us at the museum to learn more about the history of the earthquakes and fires in Los Gatos.
We will be joined by historian Bill Wulf, who will share stories, including his role in helping pinpoint the location of the fault during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake here in Los Gatos.
Were you living or working in Los Gatos in the 1960s? New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is asking our community to loan photos, stories, objects, or momentos from life in Los Gatos in the 1960s to be featured in an exhibition celebrating the museum’s 60th anniversary.
Join exhibiting artists from Greater Bay Area Open 2025: Breaking Through for a tour of the exhibition during the museum’s Free First Sunday! Light refreshments will be served.
Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!
Join us at NUMU’s first-ever Drag Bingo Night for an evening of fun and community. Spend the evening at the museum, play a few rounds of bingo with friends and neighbors, and get the chance to win fun prizes from local businesses!
Celebrate this spooky season this October with NUMU by making popsicle spiderwebs and yarn-wrapped mummies!
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