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Start with Art at the Met
Kids ages three through seven and their adult companions have fun at the Met through storytelling, sketching, and other ways of exploring art!
Free with Museum admission
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m., Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Art Explore—Saturday Morning Portfolio Class
(Ages 12–14)
Join a program of free classes devoted to understanding art and exploring the Museum. All classes are based on works of art in the Museum's collection.
Visitors ages 12–14 learn the fundamentals of drawing, using the galleries of the Museum as a studio. Techniques included are: exploration of line; the use of lights and darks to create form; understanding measurement and proportion; composition; and objects and figures to scale. Work with an artist-instructor to create drawings for your portfolio! Please bring a 9 x 12" sketchbook and pencils.
The classes are free, but registration is required. Enrollment is limited. To register, call 212–396–5121. Please provide the student's name, telephone number, school, email address, and the name of the class the student wishes to attend. Students should remember to check their belongings at the 81st Street coat check before their class begins. The classes start promptly! Registration is closed.
Jessica Houston
Free with Museum admission
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Half-Day Workshop—Art, Music, and Theater
Explore the relationship between art and performance in this interdisciplinary workshop. Using the special exhibition Watteau, Music, and Theater as a point of departure, we discuss a range of works representing musicians, dancers, and actors. We then examine the relationships among the arts as well as the means by which artists have visually represented the world of the stage.
Rebecca Arkenberg
Fee: $40 (Includes instruction and materials. Lunch is not provided.)
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Saturday Seminar—Ingres, Napoleon and the First Empire
Members beginning at the Sustaining level are invited to start your weekend at the Museum with coffee, gallery studies, and a slide lecture in the Museum’s Art Study Room, a state-of-the-art space located in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. Attendance is limited.
Elinor Richter
Fee: $700 for the eight-session semester
10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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Drawing in the Galleries (ages 8 through 11)
Fall Semester 2009
Art programs for children of Members at the Family/Dual ($190) level and above offer students the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in the Museum. Students will visit a different Museum gallery each class and explore a variety of drawing techniques and materials as they create works based on what they see. Elements of drawing to be introduced include line, shape, value, color, gesture, pattern, scale, perspective, and composition. Students will create landscapes, still lifes, portraits, figure drawings, and more. Individual interests, abilities and creativity are encouraged as students learn and draw from the Museum's collection.
For more information about this class, please call 212–650–2819.
Fee: $240 for the 12–session semester Session 1 (ages 8 through 11)
Saturdays, October 24–February 6
(No class November 28, December 26, or January 2 or 16) This session is sold out.
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
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Museum Highlights
An introduction to the Metropolitan's diverse and encyclopedic collection of art from all corners of the world, from the earliest times to the present.
Free with Museum admission
10:45 a.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Look Again—Art for the Head
Topics unlocking the history, meaning, and cross-cultural connections of works of art in the Museum are explored through conversation and sketching by visitors ages five through twelve and their adult companions. From time to time, performances enhance this Museum adventure.
Free with Museum admission
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Museum Highlights
An introduction to the Metropolitan's diverse and encyclopedic collection of art from all corners of the world, from the earliest times to the present.
Free with Museum admission
11:45 a.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Gallery Talks at The Cloisters—Plants and Landscapes in Stained Glass
No advance reservations are necessary. Due to limited gallery space, preorganized groups of ten or more cannot be accommodated. For information, call 212–650–2280.
Deirdre Larkin, lecturer, The Cloisters and MMA
Free with Museum admission
12:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Highlights of Asia
The collection of Asian art at the Metropolitan is the largest and most comprehensive in the West.
Free with Museum admission
12:30 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Gallery Workshops for Families—The King and Queen of the Court
Children ages four through twelve and their families are invited for an hour-long program at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, the branch of the Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, located in northern Manhattan. Questions? Please call 212–650–2280.
Christina De León
Free with Museum admission
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
1:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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Drawing in the Galleries (ages 11 through 14)
Fall Semester 2009
Art programs for children of Members at the Family/Dual ($190) level and above offer students the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in the Museum. Students will visit a different Museum gallery each class and explore a variety of drawing techniques and materials as they create works based on what they see. Elements of drawing to be introduced include line, shape, value, color, gesture, pattern, scale, perspective, and composition. Students will create landscapes, still lifes, portraits, figure drawings, and more. Individual interests, abilities and creativity are encouraged as students learn and draw from the Museum's collection.
For more information about this class, please call 212–650–2819.
Fee: $240 for the 12–session semester
Session 2 (ages 11 through 14)
Saturdays, October 24–February 6
(No class November 28, December 26, or January 2 or 16) This session is sold out.
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
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American Art
This overview of the American Wing includes a sampling of American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and architectural spaces spanning the 18th through the 20th centuries within the Museum's broad collections.
Free with Museum admission
1:30 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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Gallery Talks at The Cloisters—Plants and Landscapes in Stained Glass
No advance reservations are necessary. Due to limited gallery space, preorganized groups of ten or more cannot be accommodated. For information, call 212–650–2280.
Deirdre Larkin, lecturer, The Cloisters and MMA
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Japanese Mandalas—Under the Gaze of the Stars: Astral Mandalas in Medieval Japan
Today's lecture discusses the role of mandalas—graphic depictions of the Buddhist universe and its myriad realms and deities—in Japanese cultural and social life during the medieval period. This lecture is given in conjunction with the special exhibition Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars.
This event is made possible by The Tomoko Trust.
Bernard Faure, Kao Professor in Japanese Religion, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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Art Explore—Saturday Afternoon Portfolio Class
(Ages 12–14)
Join a program of free classes devoted to understanding art and exploring the Museum. All classes are based on works of art in the Museum's collection.
Visitors ages 12–14 learn the fundamentals of drawing, using the galleries of the Museum as a studio. Techniques included are: exploration of line; the use of lights and darks to create form; understanding measurement and proportion; composition; and objects and figures to scale. Work with an artist-instructor to create drawings for your portfolio! Please bring a 9 x 12" sketchbook and pencils.
The classes are free, but registration is required. Enrollment is limited. To register, call 212–396–5121. Please provide the student's name, telephone number, school, email address, and the name of the class the student wishes to attend. Students should remember to check their belongings at the 81st Street coat check before their class begins. The classes start promptly! Registration is closed.
Pamela Lawton
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Find Yourself at the Met—The Art of Perfume: Eighteenth-Century France
(Ages 15–18)
Join other teens in a program of free classes devoted to understanding art and exploring the Metropolitan Museum. All classes are based on works of art in the Museum's collection.While viewing the Met's collection of eighteenth-century French painting and the exhibition Watteau, Music, and Theater, discuss romanticism, beauty, and the way in which works of art influenced the opulent, romantic style of fragrance during that period. Write a love poem and create a perfume of jasmine, amber, orange blossom, iris, lilac, and tuberose, notes fashionable at the time of Marie Antoinette. Registration is closed.
Alexis Palmer Karl, perfumist
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Museum Highlights
An introduction to the Metropolitan's diverse and encyclopedic collection of art from all corners of the world, from the earliest times to the present.
Free with Museum admission
2:15 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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Museum Highlights
An introduction to the Metropolitan's diverse and encyclopedic collection of art from all corners of the world, from the earliest times to the present.
Free with Museum admission
3:15 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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How Did They Do That?—Degas's Bronze Dancers
Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.
Free with Museum admission
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor
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Old Master Paintings
A chronological overview of the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings from the 13th through the 18th century.
Free with Museum admission
4:30 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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The Art of Masquerade in Africa
The tradition of masquerade in Africa involves multiple creative activities for spiritual transformation. Masquerades mark important occasions in community life, such as honoring the dead, celebrating initiation rites, and praising the role of women.
Gayle Rodda Kurtz
Free with Museum admission
7:00 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Please note that all of the events listed above are subject to change. For additional information, consult one of our staff members at an Information Desk upon arrival at the Museum. Events are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted.
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