The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Visit the Museum for free as part of Connecticut Open House Day.

Join Aldrich Educator Susie Buckley as she guides participants through engraving soft copper sheeting to create a landscape work. Inspired by the artist Matthew Barney's Bayhorse, a five-panel series of landscapes made on copper plating included in the current exhibition Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art.

Please join us for a special tour of Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art led by Anna Serotta, Associate Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna will lead participants through the exhibition’s galleries focusing on a selection of elements represented in the show.

Visit the Museum for FREE the third Saturday of every month. Participate in a Story Time at 10:30 am and an all-ages Discovery Tour of our current exhibitions at 1 pm.

Bring your budding artists to The Aldrich for Story Time, in collaboration with the Ridgefield Library! Together, we will explore themes of color and birds! We will look at artwork called The Shape of Blue by Rachel Berwick and learn about the cobalt-colored indigo bunting. Then, we will move to the Museum’s Studio to create our own blue colored birds!

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of The Aldrich’s current exhibitions guided by an Aldrich Educator!

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of highlighted works from our current exhibitions, guided by Aldrich Educator Holly Lapine, reserved specifically for senior adults ages 60 and above!

Members and friends, please join us to celebrate Amy Brener: Harbingers and get a first look at Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers before it opens to the public.

Join Rosie from Pop Art! Kids for an art class quite unlike any other. At this Mommy & Me workshop, you can expect your little artist to freely explore original and age-appropriate themed sensory stations inspired by The Aldrich’s current exhibitions. Through different materials and textures, we will be bringing the exhibits to life with this hands-on experience.

We’re back with another bi-monthly Aldrich After Hours on the first Friday! The galleries will be open late, there will be mini tours of the exhibitions, and wine and beer for sale.

Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.

Bring your budding artists to The Aldrich for Story Time, in collaboration with the Ridgefield Library! Together, we will explore how artist Amy Brener uses everyday trinkets and throwaway objects to create body shields and read Pandora by Victoria Turnbull. Then, we will move to the Museum’s Studio to create our very own artworks made with found objects!

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of The Aldrich’s current exhibitions guided by a Museum Educator!

Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of highlighted works from our current exhibitions, guided by Museum Educator Holly Lapine, reserved specifically for adults ages 60 and above!

Please join artist and director Bryan McGovern Wilson and artist, writer, and curator Richard Klein for a live conversation and film screening of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Join us at The Aldrich for a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and practicing artists. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus and incorporate the world around them into their art.

Join us for a panel conversation on Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art with exhibiting artists Rachel Berwick, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, and Winston Roeth, moderated by the exhibition’s curator Richard Klein.

Join Aldrich Educator Barb Jennes to create an alchemy of word and image as we closely inspect several provocative pieces in the current exhibition Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art.

Join Rosie from Pop Art! Kids for an art class quite unlike any other. At this Mommy & Me workshop, you can expect your little artist to freely explore original and age-appropriate themed sensory stations inspired by The Aldrich’s current exhibitions. Through different materials and textures, we will be bringing the exhibits to life with this hands-on experience.

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of highlighted works from our current exhibitions, guided by Museum Educator Holly Lapine, reserved specifically for adults ages 60 and above!

Please join us for an evening tour of Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers led by Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The tour will cover an overview of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of Halfmoon’s stoneware sculptures from the past five years.

Bring your budding artists to The Aldrich for Story Time, in collaboration with the Ridgefield Library! Together, we will explore how artist Carlos Vega tells a story through his fantastical and detailed lead painting and read Just Because by Mac Barnett.

Join us for this in-person gallery tour of The Aldrich’s current exhibitions guided by a Museum Educator!

The second live performance installment of the Aldrich Box, a year-long traveling exhibition, is Transonic Homes, a solo musical performance by musician, composer, and collaborator Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache).

The performance will take place outdoors in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden on Saturday, September 23^rd at 7pm, weather permitting.