Sensory Friendly Sunday: December 2025
Tickets & Info
Tickets & Info
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 with accommodations such as quiet spaces, fidgets, and sunglasses available. Experience a selection of current exhibitions, make art, or watch a short film. All friends and family members are welcome.
In December, explore the exhibitions Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection and Show & Tell: An Exhibition for Kids.
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.
Taja Will (they/them) is a queer, disabled, Latine (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, educator, somatic therapist and Healing Justice practitioner. Will’s work explores visceral connections to current sociocultural realities through ritual, archetypes and everyday magic in dance performances. Will maintains a dynamic Healing Justice practice that includes consulting with individuals, organizations, and communities in the context of workshops, conflict mediation, one-on-one somatic healing sessions, nervous system triage, board development and organizational cultural competency, and individual coaching.
My Own Gallery, 8–11 am
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll create your own mini exhibition to take home! Design and sculpt your own pieces, then curate them in a personalized gallery-style display that showcases your creativity.
This Must Be the Scavenger Hunt, 8–11 am
This journey will take the typical museum viewing experience and shake it up, literally! Visiting a few sites within the Walker, we’ll look around and move our bodies together. If something brings you joy, maybe that joy needs a wiggle, and we’ll try it! To end this activity, we’ll take a moment to lie down, close our eyes together, and take some much needed body-based time.
Short Film: Dyani White Hawk in Between Worlds, 8–11 am
In this documentary short, we follow the artist’s career, revisiting places where her practice began to institutions where her work calls for a deeper reflection on the story of American art. Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 12 ©2025 Art21, Inc.
Accessibility note:
To access Gallery 5, take the accessible lift down one level from floor 6.
Sensory notes:
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 Dyani White Hawk: Love Language includes three 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 Show & Tell: An Exhibition for Kids includes one video room with reduced light levels. Some of the videos include flickering, or disorienting visual effects and sound that changes in volume, pitch, and tone.
To prepare for your visit, check out this Social Narrative
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.
