Art Museum Activities
Art Activities for Kids & Families in New York
11 art museums in New York publish workshops, drop-in studios, and family programs — 200+ activities coming up, 48 of them free. Listings come straight from each museum’s own events calendar and refresh daily.
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- Retracing Vermeer’s Legacy—A Conversation
- Guitar Icons: Kingfish
- View Tickets
- Met Escapes—Musical Bodies
- Met Expert Talks—Musical Bodies
- A Choral Pilgrimage with The St. James’s Singers
- Curator Talk—Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy
- Theremin Panel Discussion with Dorit Chrysler and Cyril Lance
- Met Expert Talks at The Met Cloisters—Material Symbolism
- Workshop—Relief Stone Carving with The Met Cloisters and Pellettieri Stone Carvers’ Academy
- Open Studio at The Met Cloisters
- Open Studio—Bloom: Floral Messages
- Grupo de estudio en línea—Seres del mito y la imaginación: Europa y América
- Met Expert Talks—Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop
- Met Expert Talks at The Met Cloisters—Otherworlds
- Artists on Artworks—Koyoltzintli on the Instruments of the Ancient Americas
- Drop-in Drawing—Rhythm
- Educator Workshop—Connections, Exchanges, and Colonialism: Complex Topics in the Classroom
- Met Memory Cafe
- Storytime at The Met—Weather Wonders
- Hello, Met! (Ages 2–4)
- Stories and Glories: World Mythology (Ages 5–8)
- Pause for Pegasus (Ages 9–12)
- Family Afternoon at The Met Cloisters—Winged Wonders
- Fables and Tales—Celebrating Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month
- Celebrating Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston
- Celebrating Morton Feldman: Violin and String Quartet
- Black Belt Eagle Scout and Joe Rainey
- New York Polyphony
- Trio Mediæval
- Rebirth Brass Band
- JACK Plays JACK
- Don’t Look Down: Sandbox Percussion Plays Christopher Cerrone
- Guitar Icons: Jason Isbell
- Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah: Sound Carved from Legend
- Guitar Icons: St. Vincent
- Jonny Greenwood: 112 Years of Reverb
- Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month Member Tour
- First Look: Annual Curatorial Preview and Reception
- Weekend Member Mornings
- Opening Day Preview Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous
- All Member Previews Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous
- Inside The Met: Cocktails, Concerts, and Conversations
- Patron Opening Reception for Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous
- 81st Street Studio Member Mornings
- Storytime at The Met—Weather Wonders
- Art for Tots (Ages 1–2): Opposites
- Stories and Glories: World Mythology (Ages 5–8)
- Material Exploration (Ages 5–8)
- Drawing Adventures (Ages 5–8)
- Drawing in the Galleries (Ages 9–12)
- Thursday Painting Lab (Ages 5–8)
- Painting Lab (Ages 9–12)
- Monday Painting Lab (Ages 5–8)
- Disability Connections—Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
- Art Start: Paint & Snack – Homestead Solitaire (1AF26)
- An Evening with Liu Wei
- Musical Bodies Theremin Workshop with the NY Theremin Society
- JACK Plays JACK
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Art museums in New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY58 upcoming · 24 freeOfficial site
- Whitney Museum of American ArtNew York, NY17 upcoming · 7 freeOfficial site
- MoMANew York, NY19 upcomingOfficial site
- Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNew York, NY6 upcoming
- Buffalo AKG Art MuseumBuffalo, NY26 upcoming · 4 freeOfficial site
- Memorial Art GalleryRochester, NY36 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- Parrish Art MuseumWater Mill, NY11 upcomingOfficial site
- El Museo del BarrioNew York, NY6 upcoming · 6 freeOfficial site
- Everson Museum of ArtSyracuse, NY2 upcomingOfficial site
- The Noguchi MuseumLong Island City, NY2 upcomingOfficial site
- Katonah Museum of ArtKatonah, NY17 upcoming · 1 freeOfficial site