It’s summertime at NUMU, and this July’s monthly craft is a camp special, paper tents! Visitors are invited to learn how to fold paper through origami to make an A-frame tent, and younger visitors can color, cut, and glue one together. Take this camp craft on the trail or for stay-at-home stargazing fun.
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 at NUMU for a small private tour of their history collection followed by a dedicated time to sit and sketch historical garments, musical instruments, and animals that tell the history of Los Gatos.
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.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about Mountain Charley, the man, the myth, the legend. We will be joined by Los Gatos historian Bill Wulf.
Capture the soul of your beloved pet on an 11x14 canvas in this fun, step-by-step painting workshop - no experience needed! Each canvas will be pre-sketched by hand from your own pet photo, so all you have to do is paint. Using acrylic paints and expert one-on-one instruction, you’ll go home with a one-of-a-kind portrait you’ll be proud of.
Beat the heat this August with NUMU’s monthly craft: DIY folding fans! Visitors can decorate and make their own folding fans with paper and popsicle sticks. Find inspiration in summer scenes, fruity eats, or design your own pattern.
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!
NUMU is pleased to present New Additions 2026, on view for a limited time, highlighting artworks and historical artifacts donated to our institution from 2020 to 2025. Join us to celebrate the generosity of our community of regional and exhibiting artists, collectors, and keepers of history. Their contributions support our endeavor to thoughtfully build our permanent art and history collections and to preserve and maintain them for generations to come.
Build, paint, and assemble your own hanging fish sculpture with Jess Gilliam in this two-day, creatively open-ended paper maché workshop at NUMU!.
On day one, you will be guided through the structure, shaping, and assembly of your paper maché sculpture. Your piece will dry overnight at NUMU.
On day two, you will paint and walk away with a finished piece that feels both sculptural and playful.
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.
Girl Scouts will explore art and design through hands-on activities including painting, printmaking, and building. Brownies will explore NUMU’s galleries with a museum professional, experiment with line-making, printmaking techniques, and create their own painted portraits. Each Girl Scout will also design and build a custom frame to display their artwork. This engaging program is a fun experience you won’t want to miss!
Hoo’s ready for September’s monthly craft? Visitors can use upcycled cardboard, paper, and more to make their own horned owl, a popular sight to see as Los Gatos enters fall. If you need more inspiration, you can check out our collection of taxidermied owls on display in the Los Gatos History Project and Collections Lab. It’s a hoot!
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!
Did you know Yehudi Menuhin, the world-renowned violinist, lived in Los Gatos? Join us for a talk by musician Robert Huguenor, as we learn about Menuhin's life and music.
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!
In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!
Los Gatos was a premier agricultural town for many decades, and the LG Cannery was a major employer - join us for a talk about this fascinating chapter of LG history.
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!
Girl Scouts will explore art and design through hands-on activities including painting, printmaking, and building. Brownies will explore NUMU’s galleries with a museum professional, experiment with line-making, printmaking techniques, and create their own painted portraits. Each Girl Scout will also design and build a custom frame to display their artwork. This engaging program is a fun experience you won’t want to miss!
The Beat poets were legendary, and Neal Cassady lived right here in Los Gatos. Join us for a talk by "Los Gatan" publisher, Dan Pulcano, as he shares his personal reminiscences of Cassady and the Beats.
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!
Ming Quong, a local historic school for Chinese girls, was an iconic part of Los Gatos history, and we are honored to have Janet Chang, a former resident of Ming Quong, join us to share her memories.
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!
In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!
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!
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!
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!
In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!
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!
Girl Scouts will explore art and design through hands-on activities including painting, printmaking, and building. Brownies will explore NUMU’s galleries with a museum professional, experiment with line-making, printmaking techniques, and create their own painted portraits. Each Girl Scout will also design and build a custom frame to display their artwork. This engaging program is a fun experience you won’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!
In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!
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!
In partnership with the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce Women’s Networking Group, NUMU will be offering a lovely opportunity to connect and mingle during an incredible art experience.
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.
NUMU Circle Members will enjoy a fun-filled Friday! First, we will enjoy a tour of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and learn about their unique collection chronicling more than a century of Japanese American history. Then, we will walk over to Art Object Gallery, where we will hear from sculptor and owner, Ken Matsumoto, and enjoy mingling and refreshments.
Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about true crime in old Los Gatos! Learn about the old days of stagecoach robberies and notorious criminals! Please note that this month’s talk is later than usual, starting at 2 PM. We will be joined by Debra Staab, of the Loma Prieta Museum.
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 the artists of Salon Jane: Resonance for a guided tour of the exhibition during the museum’s Free First Sunday! Featuring artists Jane Olin, Martha Cassnave, Anna Rheim, Robin Ward, and Robin Robinson.
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 June, NUMU is celebrating Pride month with the return of a crowd favorite craft: Pride keychains! Step into our Lounge and decorate a keychain with lanyard cord and pony beads to match one of many Pride flags in the LGBTQ+ community, and learn the importance of the colors used in each of the flags.
Long known as “the Valley of Heart’s Delight”, Santa Clara Valley was the world’s largest producer of fruit, with acres of farmland providing a bounty of produce in an ideal climate. This decade saw a huge increase in population that came about for several reasons, including the growing technology industry that developed into what we now know as Silicon Valley. Learn more about Los Gatos in the 1960s with Amy Long, curator of our current exhibition, I Know A Place. Amy will also share her experiences living in Los Gatos in the 60s. We'd love to hear your stories, too!
Meet at NUMU (New Museum Los Gatos) to 'hunt' for art with flowers, then draw a floral still life at an easel in their newly opened drawing studio.
In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!
We need your help! We are seeking volunteers, ages 16+, to support the museum in putting together a large mailing.
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 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.
Grab a needle and yarn for the May monthly craft, Photo-Stitching! Using black and white copies of photographs from our collection, you are invited to get creative and embellish with colorful yarn and simple stitches. While here, check out the new exhibition Salon Jane: Resonance, and see the conversations shared between the photographers’ works on display.
Join us for an intimate conversation with the artists of Salon Jane. In this virtual event, the women of Salon Jane share their individual journeys to and through art and how they all came to be part of Salon Jane. Each artist will reflect on their histories, inspirations, and how their personal and professional lives shaped them into the artists they are today. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the artists directly at the end of the conversation.
Los Gatos in the 1960s was a vibrant hub of artists & performers, including our guest speakers, Rick Guidice and Susan Jaekel. Learn more about their work and the local community at this talk!
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.
Celebrate Earth Day and the value of re-use while exploring creativity in our Makerspace. You are invited to drop-in and create your own cork doll by using reclaimed wine corks, fabric scraps, yarn and markers to make a figure. This historic craft is rooted in the Victorian era when hobbyists sought ways to repurpose cork bark. One way was creating these playful dolls from the high-quality wine cork for gifts or collectables.
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!
Ben Cunningham-Summerfield (Mountain Maidu of Northern California and Turtle Mountain Chippewa of the Great Lakes Region) and his wife, Kimberly (Tsalagi [Cherokee] and culturally-adopted Mewuk), are indigenous educators and cultural demonstrators. They will be spending time with NUMU’s collections and curatorial team, delving into the indigenous belongings in the museum’s collection and educating staff about the materials, source communities, and significance of each piece.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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