Join NUMU this March to commemorate Irish-American Heritage Month through the cultural art of Celtic knots. The diversity of Celtic knots throughout woven, rock-carved, painted, and printed works is a timeless and ongoing practice. Visitors will be able to use pipe cleaners to make three types of Celtic knots: the triquesta, heart, and dara knots.

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Over 100 years ago, multi-millionaire Andrew Carnegie built almost 2000 libraries across the U.S., including the one that used to stand in Los Gatos! Join us as we learn what happened to this vanished landmark. Featuring special guest, Shawnte Santos, from the Los Gatos Library!

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Ben Cunningham-Summerfield (Mountain Maidu of Northern California and Turtle Mountain Chippewa of the Great Lakes Region) and his wife, Kimberly (Tsalagi [Cherokee] and culturally-adopted Mewuk), are indigenous educators and cultural demonstrators. They will be spending time with NUMU’s collections and curatorial team, delving into the indigenous belongings in the museum’s collection and educating staff about the materials, source communities, and significance of each piece.

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Celebrate Earth Day and the value of re-use while exploring creativity in our Makerspace.  You are invited to drop-in and create your own cork doll by using reclaimed wine corks, fabric scraps, yarn and markers to make a figure. This historic craft is rooted in the Victorian era when hobbyists sought ways to repurpose cork bark.  One way was creating these playful dolls from the high-quality wine cork for gifts or collectables. 

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Spend an afternoon at NUMU learning how to make a stitched mixed media art piece that chronicles a memory or life event with our exhibiting artist, Susan Hyde Greene. In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn how to use photographic images, paper, and thread to create pieced, stitched, cut-apart, and reassembled artworks relaying stories of personal memory and/or meaningful life events.

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Los Gatos in the 1960s was a vibrant hub of artists & performers, including our guest speakers, Rick Guidice and Susan Jaekel. Learn more about their work and the local community at this talk! 

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Grab a needle and yarn for the May monthly craft, Photo-Stitching!  Using black and white copies of photographs from our collection, you are invited to get creative and embellish with colorful yarn and simple stitches. While here, check out the new exhibition Salon Jane: Resonance, and see the conversations shared between the photographers’ works on display.

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Join us to celebrate the talented exhibiting high school artists and the announcement of the award recipients of ArtNow 2026: Before / Between / Beyond. We invite the community to honor the emerging artists’ accomplishments, explore the exhibition, and enjoy art activities.

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Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!

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Long known as “the Valley of Heart’s Delight”, Santa Clara Valley was the world’s largest producer of fruit, with acres of farmland providing a bounty of produce in an ideal climate. This decade saw a huge increase in population that came about for several reasons, including the growing technology industry that developed into what we now know as Silicon Valley. Learn more about Los Gatos in the 1960s with Amy Long, curator of our current exhibition, I Know A Place. Amy will also share her experiences living in Los Gatos in the 60s. We'd love to hear your stories, too!

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This June, NUMU is celebrating Pride month with the return of a crowd favorite craft: Pride keychains! Step into our Lounge and decorate a keychain with lanyard cord and pony beads to match one of many Pride flags in the LGBTQ+ community, and learn the importance of the colors used in each of the flags.

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Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!

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Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about true crime in old Los Gatos! Learn about the old days of stagecoach robberies and notorious criminals! Please note that this month’s talk is later than usual, starting at 2 PM. We will be joined by Debra Staab, of the Loma Prieta Museum.

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Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!

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Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about Mountain Charley, the man, the myth, the legend. We will be joined by Los Gatos historian Bill Wulf.

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Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about The Cats Estate and its historic residents, Charles E.S. Wood and Sara Bard Field. We will be joined by Los Gatos historian Alan Feinberg.

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Did you know Yehudi Menuhin, the world-renowned violinist, lived in Los Gatos? Join us for a talk by musician Robert Huguenor, as we learn about Menuhin's life and music.

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Los Gatos was a premier agricultural town for many decades, and the LG Cannery was a major employer - join us for a talk about this fascinating chapter of LG history.

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The Beat poets were legendary, and Neal Cassady lived right here in Los Gatos.  Join us for a talk by "Los Gatan" publisher, Dan Pulcano, as he shares his personal reminiscences of Cassady and the Beats.

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Ming Quong, a local historic school for Chinese girls, was an iconic part of Los Gatos history, and we are honored to have Janet Chang, a former resident of Ming Quong, join us to share her memories.

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