“It is our pleasure to host the public for two fun-filled days for children and families, as well as a host of guided tours around our current art exhibition, and the history and architecture of MICAS,” MICAS executive chairperson Phyllis Muscat said.

Muscat said the Open Weekend itself will follow a special open day solely for schools, with Friday 6 March reserved for workshops and lectures for pupils.

“Our Open Weekend reflects MICAS’s commitment towards community engagement, which we recently bolstered with our free admission on Sundays – our guided tours, and creative activities for children are a vibrant celebration that brings  together art, history, nature, and play here at our museum’s unique campus,” Muscat added.

A MICAS Open Weekend is a guaranteed day out for the whole family: take your time strolling around the entire campus or join one of the free historical tours – these guided tours tend to be some of the more popular ones at MICAS, reliving centuries of lived history of a site built as a military defensive structure, with traces of its former inhabitants still evident in the graffitied walls and its carved ex votos.

Children will be kept busy with a vast array of immersive and educational painting activities and special art tours tailor-made for young minds: on both days from 10am to 6pm, they can experience actual painting sessions with ‘Avery In Action’ and the MICAS collective canvas, and other drawing activities, games like Shape Detective and outdoors giant chess, Jenga and 4-in-a-line, as well as a plant hunt.