Sensory Friendly Sunday: April 2026
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Sensory Friendly Sunday is a monthly event designed for kids, teens, and adults with sensory processing differences, autism, or developmental disabilities. The galleries will be closed to the general public, allowing visitors to enjoy the museum in a calm environment. Accommodations such as quiet spaces, fidgets, and sunglasses are readily available. Experience a selection of current exhibitions, make art, or watch a short film. All friends and family members are welcome.
In April, explore the exhibitions This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection, Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, Rosy Simas: A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind), and Sculpture Court.
To support the health and safety of visitors at increased risk for Covid-19, masks are required at Sensory Friendly Sunday for visitors over age 2. Accommodations are available if someone in your party is unable to tolerate masking. Please email access@walkerart.org or call 612-375-7561 for more information.
This program was created in consultation with the Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) and the University of Minnesota’s Occupational Therapy Program.
While walk-ins are welcome, we encourage you to reserve your space ahead of time. Sensory Friendly Sunday is typically less busy from 8 to 9:30 am and busier from 9:30 to 11 am.
Super Fun Assemblage, 8–11 am
Join teaching artist Cynthia Weitzel for an activity using found objects to make new artworks. Stretch your imagination and have super fun while constructing creatures or imagery with nontraditional materials. Continue the experience at home with items found in your everyday environment.
Artwork Search, 8–11 am
Explore the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night and find artworks like the ones shown on the worksheet. Once you’ve found them all, bring the worksheet back to receive a surprise!
Short Film: Outdoors, 8–11 am
This tender animated short is about quiet lives, unexpected encounters, and the courage it takes to let go. The six-minute film will play on a loop. Directed by Anne Castaldo, Elsa Nesme, Adrien Rouquie, and Sarah Chalek.
Sensory notes:
Videos on view within the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night contain flickering effects and sounds that change in volume, pitch, and tone. In Gallery 2, a fan-powered artwork makes a loud droning sound.
The exhibition This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection includes two video rooms with reduced light levels. Some videos include flashing, flickering, or disorienting visual effects and sound that changes in volume, pitch, and tone.
The exhibition Rosy Simas: A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind) has low light levels. Videos include shifting light effects.
To access Galleries 2 and 5, please ask a Gallery Assistant in Gallery 3 and 6 for help using the accessible lift.
For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.
For questions about accessibility or to request additional accommodations, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
This project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Family Programs are supported by the KHR McNeely Family Foundation, thanks to Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely.
Lead support for the Walker’s Education and Public Programs is provided by the Pohlad Family Community Engagement Fund.