Morgan Sego is the operations coordinator of the art museum. The events are great, she said, because they're held on Saturdays, so families have better access to attend weekend public tours.

“This is just a great way to get families in the communities into the museum,” Sego said.

Sego’s job is to analyze data from the events. For example, she tries to find out how many people are from the community, the certain zip codes the event reaches and the age groups present in the museum.

“Since we've been open for a number of years, we're kind of seeing kids grow up with the event and then we're like, 'Should we start changing some things to make it maybe accommodate more older kids' or 'Are we still getting really new, younger kids who are kind of still growing up in the program?'" Sego said. 

The events have different themes every time. This month's theme is "Land."

Arts and humanities junior Ellie Anderson, an education intern at the museum, said each event is themed to correlate with seasonal changes in the community.

“Right now we have a video series called ‘When The Land Speaks’ and that's how we centered this theme around this,” Anderson said. “We try to pay attention to the seasons and what's going on, and with it being fall, we found it very fitting with the materials we chose for this month.”

East Lansing Public Library Youth Services Specialist Emily Adams bring books to each event to read to children. 

“I love coming to the Broad Art Museum,” she said. "I know it sounds silly, but I never thought that I would be working in a museum. So I think this is really cool.”

Adams has a similar job of reading to kids at the library. She compared working at the two places. 

“Over at the library, it is much quieter and more organized," Adams said. "The kids sit down in front of me and I read to them and then we get up and do a little craft, but here they get to explore, they get to walk around."

Adams said both of her different experiences are positive, and she takes what she learns at the museum back to the library. 

“I can bring this knowledge about art back to the library and then teach them this stuff over at the library,” Adams said. “So really it's a good experience for me to come here.”

Stay-at-home mother Kate Milberger's family has attended Family Day for about six months.

“My kids love it,” Milberger said. “My older daughter is four and when we mention that we're doing it, she gets excited. "Honestly, my husband loves it. I'm not very creative, but my husband loves the art projects.”

Milberger said the materials that provided by the museum are amazing.

“The quality of the art projects and the stuff that they provide for the kids is really amazing,” she said.

Editor's note: The headline of this story initially referred to Family Day as a weekly event. It is a monthly event. This has since been corrected.