Our next NYCMember Tour is taking place on Thursday, May 29, from 4:30-6:00 PM at the Jackie Robinson Museum! The Jackie Robinson Museum celebrates the enduring legacy of one of the most important Americans of the 20th century, chronicling his trailblazing achievements against the backdrop of United States history. Invoking Robinson’s role as a champion for…

Join us for the 2025 NYCMER Annual Conference on Monday, May 19, 2025 at Teachers College, Columbia University. This year’s theme is Welcome: Museums in Community. For more information about sessions and registration, please visit the Annual Conference page.

When: Friday, January 24th, 1:00 – 3:00 PMWhere: VirtualRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/D5vfJqWyT7iSh-08Gje56g Are you ready to sharpen your skills as an educator in your field? Join fellow informal educators from NYCMER for a FREE interactive, two-hour virtual workshop where we’ll dive into lesson planning, using objects to boost learning, and demystifying Scope and Sequence.  Choose TWO skills to focus on and collaborate with experienced…

Happy Holidays! Join us for an evening of music, friends, and celebration at the annual NYCMER Holiday party. Enjoy special after hours access to the Museum of the City of New York, including the special exhibit Above Ground: Art from the MartinWong Graffiti Collection, as well as the company of cheerful colleagues celebrating a year…

Our next NYCMember Tour is taking place on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at Storm King Art Center! Quoting from their About page, “Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky.” During this NYCMember Tour, educators from Storm…

Want to create an inclusive space for LGBTQ+ youth at your institution, but don’t know where to start? Join us for a joint meeting of three NYCMER Peer Groups — K-12 & Family Programmers, Teen Programmers, and Queer Peers — for an engaging workshop! Learn how museums can better support, include, and advocate for LGBTQ+…

Join us to kick off the NYCMER year! Our annual Meet & Greet will take place at the Green-Wood Cemetery. Connect with your peers while learning about Brooklyn’s historic cemetery, nationally-recognized arboretum, and cultural landmark with evening trolley tours, interactive night nature walks, and a preview of a new art installation by Raul Ayala in…

Hear from museum educators who have taken the plunge into following their passions and writing a book! What aspects of their museum education backgrounds inspired them to go the distance and pursue publishing? Dustin Growick, author of The Museum (The Inside Story), and REX ED: An Adults-Only Guide to Dinosaurs, and Eleanor Whitney, author of Promote Your Book,…

The Metropolitan’s 81st Street Studio opened in September of 2023 and quickly became a must visit destination for NYC families and tourists with young children. Join Heidi Holder, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Sloan Chair of Education, as she tours NYCMER members around the facility and shares some of the guiding design principles and lessons…

Each May, NYCMER proudly hosts its annual conference. On January 30th, we are holding a special prep session – we want YOU to participate in the conference as an attendee, and also, if you’re up for it, as a presenter! Presenting is exciting and rewarding, and we bet attendees will find your experience valuable, but…