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“Ides of March” Family Day, March 2025. Photo: Nicole Kinnunen/Michigan Photography.

Family Day is a biannual, family-friendly event featuring engaging, hands-on activities related to the cultures of the ancient Middle East, Greece, Egypt, and Rome! Each Family Day is centered around a theme and offers activities that are fun for all ages. 

Our next Family Day will take place on Sunday, October 5, 2025, from 11:00 AM–2:00 PM. Coinciding with National Archaeology Month, this free event will center on the themes of archaeology and technology. We will have various activities related to current technology used in archaeology, including robotics that U-M professor Katie Skinner and her team employ underwater!

“Ides of March” Family Day, March 2025

A girl holds a mask of a cat, made out of a paper plate, up to her face. She also wears a gold-foil amulet-style necklace around her neck.
A woman, a scroll tucked in her clothing, acts out a scene from “Julius Caesar.” She stands with her eyes closed and arms outstretched in front of the Kelsey Museum.
A woman leans forward to hand a touchable artifact to a child in front of a table covered with skulls, shells, and other objects.
A woman reads to two children, both of whom have their hands raised, in the Kelsey Museum galleries.
A boy sits at a table covered in craft supplies, paper-plate masks, and Roman theater masks.
A wooden trebuchet on the sidewalk near the Kelsey Museum. In the background, a man points to something out of frame, standing next to a boy wearing a paper-plate mask.
A woman and girl in the Kelsey Museum’s Egyptian galleries. The girl stands on her toes and leans close to the glass to get a better look at the objects on display.
A man dons an orange replica of a Roman theater mask.
View of the door to the Kelsey Museum’s Newberry Hall. A woman holds a child on her back, while another kid walks beside her.
A woman leans close to talk to a child. They work on coloring a paper plate with an image of a yellow cat.
A group photo of six women in front of the Kelsey Museum. Four of them are dressed in all black with colorful scarves around their necks.
Two women sit at a table covered in a blue tablecloth reading “Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,” as well as flyers, handouts, and signage, talking to a woman in front of them.
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Past Family Days

March 15, 2025 | The Ides of March

October 6, 2024 | Roaming with Romans: Exploring the World of Gladiators

March 23, 2024 | Magical Marvels: Power and Protection in the Ancient World

October 22, 2023 | Hands-On History: Ancient Technologies, Modern Discoveries

March 25, 2023 | Stinky, Noisy, Fun: The 5 Senses of the Ancient Mediterranean

October 16, 2022 | Trade Throughout the Ancient Mediterranean

March 28–April 3, 2021 | Ancient Health & Wellness

October 18–23, 2020 | Ancient Storytelling

October 20, 2019 | Graffiti and Ancient Kush

March 24, 2018 | Ancient Egypt

October 21, 2017 | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817-2017

April 8, 2017 | The Art and Science of Healing

October 8, 2016 | Ancient Toys and Games

April 9, 2016 | Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero

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