Sensory Friendly Sunday October 2025
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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, 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 October, explore the exhibitions This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg: Glacial Decoy, and Jessi Reaves: process invented the mirror.
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.
Don’t Doubt Your Horses Art-Making Activity, 8–11 am
Join teaching artist Dan Wahl as he transforms the Art Lab. Don’t Doubt Your Horses is a participatory art project that encourages you to unharness your creative spirit by making horses. Please paint a horse. Postcard size is good. If you don’t paint much, then please paint a horse!
Found Object Furniture Art-Making Activity, 8–11 am
Artist Jessi Reaves takes everyday furniture and changes it into surprising sculptures. In this activity, you can do the same by decorating and transforming miniature furniture into your very own masterpiece.
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.
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 short film will be captioned in English.
To prepare for your visit, check out this Social Narrative.
For more information about accessibility, visit our Access page.
For questions on accessibility or to request additional accommodations, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
Dan Wahl is a public participatory artist, visual artist, and writer from the prairie land of southwest Minnesota. For many years, he’s been asking friends, acquaintances, and strangers, “Could you please draw me a horse?”
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.
