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Sensory-Friendly Day

Date
Sunday, January 12
Time
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
NCC Atrium

Join the National Constitution Center for its Sensory-Friendly Days, an accessible learning experience for people of all abilities and their families. Visitors with sensory-processing challenges can experience the museum in a secure and comfortable environment that includes modified programming and emotionally safe spaces with sensory objects, comfortable seating, and cool blue lighting.

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Upcoming Sensory-Friendly Days:

  • February 9, 2025
  • March 9, 2025
  • April 13, 2025
  • July 20, 2025
  • August 17, 2025
  • October 12, 2025

The National Constitution Center is a proud partner of Art-Reach, a Philadelphia nonprofit organization that creates connections between the disability community and the cultural arts. Art-Reach has provided inclusion and accessibility trainings to museum staff, collaborated on programming, and consulted on environmental adjustments serve our community. The NCC is also a proud participant of Art-Reach’s ACCESS Admission Program, a community initiative developed to make arts and cultural spaces more accessible and affordable by providing $2 admission to over 80 cultural sites throughout Greater Philadelphia and Delaware for individuals receiving public assistance for food or medical benefits.

 

Special Sensory-Friendly Programming

Reading Rocks! A Bubble Music, Dance, and Comedy Show: An Autism Awareness and Acceptance Concert

January 12, 2025 and April 13, 2025, 11 a.m. – 11:45 a.m 

Join us for a program featuring wonderful classic and original children’s songs and tales accompanied by visual and sensory experiences. Kids will dance, sing, laugh, use their imaginations, and connect with new friends. The show is crafted to be inclusive for all children, including children on the autism spectrum, and a great time for parents and teachers.

This program is presented by Turtle Dance Music.

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Laughter Yoga

April 13, 2025

Laughter Yoga aka Hasya Yoga is an exercise practice involving voluntary laughter with yogic breathing (Pranayama yoga). Laughter Yoga is based on the belief that free laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter, without the use of jokes or comedy.

This program is presented by Oni Lasana Productions.

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Watercolor Workshop with Averil Smith Barone

August 17 and October 12, 2025, 1 p.m.

Join Averil Smith Barone for her Watercolor Workshop and learn the many different techniques of this wonderful medium including: wet-in-wet, gradation, splatter, wax and sea sponge. Watercolor is a wonderful way to express yourself and Averil’s workshops are welcoming and fun. Averil’s Watercolor Workshop expands the knowledge of the medium of watercolor with the practice of techniques, as well as brings smiles and fun to the group. Averil’s warm approach, clear instructions and visual aids help make a creative learning environment.

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