Thursdays-Sundays
12-4PM
Olana on the Move Backpacks
Museum Shop (also at the Wagon House Education Center on Weekends)
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Explore the Olana landscape with self-guided activities to enrich family visits. Take your sketches home, or donate them to our ongoing public exhibit. Must leave a photo ID until backpack is returned. Please note backpacks are not available on July 4th.

Saturdays, 12-4PM
Art in the Barn
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
Ages 3-5 (caregivers)
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Go on a family tour of the house to be inspired, then come down to the farm to be an artist. Music, story-telling, dance, movement and open art studio time for our youngest artists. New projects every Saturday. To celebrate Columbia County Historical Society's "Inked Over" theme, stamping and printing activities will also be included in our projects. Monthly Themes: Architecture; Farm History; Art and Nature; The Hudson River.

Sundays, 1-4pm
ARTlandish!
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
All ages
Free *Vehicle use fee applies
Create art in the landscape-not such an outlandish idea! Frederic Church sketched outside noting details in nature and went back to the studio to paint. Drop-in for sketch paper, pencils and clipboards. Head out into Olana's picturesque landscape to sketch your very own view. Come back to the "studio" to use colored pencils, oil pastels and watercolors to finish your artwork. Please note ARTlandish! is cancelled on July 4th.

July Programs

Monday, July 5, 4-5 pm
Garden Walk
Flower Garden
Adults
Free
Join Mary K. Hughes on an informational walk through Church's flower garden. Learn a little history as well as new plant care and maintenance of perennial gardens. Bring questions on Heirloom annuals and perennials; stay for the Olana sunsets. Mary holds a degree in Horticulture as well as Floriculture and has a floral design certificate from SUNY Cobleskill Agriculture College. She has owned and operated her own business for 8 years, runs a greenhouse specializing in Heirloom plants, and was on the board of the Hudson Valley Flower show where she was a ribbon holder for design. Rain or shine.

Saturday, July 10, 11:30 am
Family Tour at Olana
Vistor Center
Families
Admission is $9/adult; $8/students and seniors, free for children under 12 or members of The Olana Partnership *Vehicle use fee applies
Explore the house, its paintings and treasures from a child's perspective. Take the family tour and then stop by the Wagon House Education Center for Art in the Barn, or borrow a backpack full of activities to do on the grounds - a family day at Olana couldn't be more perfect! Tours are geared for families with 6-12 year-olds, but all ages are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required by 4pm the preceding Friday. Call (518) 828-0135 for information.

Monday July 12-Friday July 16 9am-2pm
The Journey (Session 1): Olana's Summer Arts Program
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
Ages 6-12
$165/child; $125 members of The Olana Partnership
Children ages 6-12 work in small groups at the picturesque estate of Frederic Church, renowned Hudson River School artist, as they journey to one of the locales visited by Church in the 19th century. Through art, music, movement, history, nature walks, poetry and other hands-on activities in the Wagon House Education Center, children experience the life and travels of this landmark artist. Call (518) 828-1872 x109 for more info. Click here for registration form: The Journey

Saturday, July 24, 11:30 am
Family Tour at Olana
Vistor Center
Families
Admission is $9/adult; $8/students and seniors, free for children under 12 or members of The Olana Partnership *Vehicle use fee applies
Explore the house, its paintings and treasures from a child's perspective. Take the family tour and then stop by the Wagon House Education Center for Art in the Barn, or borrow a backpack full of activities to do on the grounds - a family day at Olana couldn't be more perfect! Tours are geared for families with 6-12 year-olds, but all ages are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required by 4pm the preceding Friday. Call (518) 828-0135 for information.

Saturday, July 24, 7-11pm
Paradise Found: The Olana Summer Party
East Lawn
Adults
$85/adult; $65 members of The Olana Partnership
The Olana Partnership's summer party-with amazing food, spectacular views, and dancing under the stars, this is the not-to-be-missed event of the summer. For more information on the event/how you can become a volunteer or sponsor, see the 2010 Olana Summer Party website.

*Vehicle use fee: On weekends and holiday Mondays, April through October 31, there is a $5 entry fee per vehicle from 10AM-5PM; (Vehicle entry fee is waived for current members of The Olana Partnership) This fee can be credited toward a house tour as long as house tour tickets are available.