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…

Where: Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue Time: 6-8PM Join us to kick off the NYCMER year! Our annual Meet & Greet will take place at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where you’ll have an opportunity to learn about our Peer Groups and what we have in store in the coming months, along with other NYCMER membership…

Where: Virtual Time: 7-8PM Cost: Free RSVP Here Join us for a two-part hybrid event that celebrates the power of gaming in education. Pterosaurs. Gut microbes. Killer Snails. The Sixth Extinction. At the American Museum of Natural History, the team of Barry Joseph and Nicholas Fortugno tackled these subjects and more as both museum educators…

Where: Zoom Time: 7:30PM Cost: Free Making a leap into leadership can be daunting. Job descriptions list cryptic requirements that don’t exactly line up with your experience, or degrees that might not match yours. Yet when you meet these leaders, they don’t seem so different from you. Join the NYCMER board on February 28th for…

Where: Columbia | Zuckerman Institute, 3227 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Time: 6-8PM Cost: Free to members, $10 for not-yet members RSVP Here Join us for a two-part hybrid event that celebrates the power of gaming in education. On February 22, game on at a NYCMER gaming block party at the Zuckerman Lab at Columbia University.…

Time: 6-8PM Where: The Explorers Club 46 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021 Cost: Free for members and their one guest, $10 for not-yet-members and $8 for student not-yet-members. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Join us for an evening of holiday cheer and anticipation for the New Year as NYCMER hosts…

Where: Central Park West at 79th St., Manhattan When: 6PM Join us for our first Nov-Member tours!  FREE and exclusive member-only tours of new and innovative informal educational spaces around NYC.  Our first two tours will take place at the Brooklyn Public Library Central Library and American Museum of Natural History. Registration is now open,…

Where: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn When: 5PM Join us for our first Nov-Member tours!  FREE and exclusive member-only tours of new and innovative informal educational spaces around NYC.  Our first two tours will take place at the Brooklyn Public Library Central Library and American Museum of Natural History. Registration is now open, and instructions…