Looking for a fun way to spend this rainy Family Day afternoon in Whistler?
The Audain Art Museum in Whistler Village is offering free admission all day long, with a full slate of activities until doors close at 6 p.m. (Not to toot our own horn, but admission is made free today thanks to Pique and our parent company Glacier Media. *beep beep*)
Families can participate in scavenger hunts and a "Junior Security Guard" program before enjoying coffee and hot chocolate courtesy of Creekside's RockIt Coffee Co. until 3 p.m.
There's also family art-making activities in Cressey Hall until 2 p.m., and vault tours led by Curtis Collins, the Audain's director and chief curator, every 30 minutes until 4 p.m. (Though spots are limited, so be sure to register upon arrival.)
From 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., listen to story time with Elyse Kishimoto in the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Gallery, before kicking off après with DJ Foxy Moron until 6 p.m.— all ages welcome!
Don't miss out on catching the Audain's latest exhibition, The Collectors’ Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection, which opened last month and is due to run until May 15. This latest exhibit features more than 170 works of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish prints, amassed by private collectors and donated to the National Gallery of Canada, as Collins told Pique earlier this month.
“It’s a really interesting exhibit for the museum in the fact that this is the largest and most historic grouping we’ve had in the building,” he said. “It’s the first time outside of the National Gallery of Canada that this group of work has been shown.”
