SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM FAMILY PROGRAM: UP, UP, UP SKYSCRAPER!

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Young learners will be introduced to the basics of skyscraper construction through a group reading of Anastasia Suen’s picture book Up Up! Up! Skyscraper. Inspired by the read-aloud and the models and photos in the gallery, young architects will design their own skyscrapers. Maybe one day their designs will make it to the construction site! All Ages.

Millennium: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Multimedia exhibition, running from November 8, 2017 through April 2018, vividly recaptures this strange and formative time in the history of New York’s historic commercial hub, through a striking combination of architectural drawings and models, archival and contemporary photographs, original …

Skyscraper Museum Seminar: Sarah Williams Goldhagen

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes our Lives. Drawing on new discoveries in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, in her new book Welcome to Your World, architecture critic and historian Sarah Williams Goldhagen probes how environments profoundly shape …

Suspension Bridge Challenge: The Skyscraper Museum Family Program

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

There are many types of bridges, but what’s so special about a suspension bridge? After learning about some of the longest bridges in the world, kids will be assigned to make two bridges: a simple beam bridge and a suspension …

Skyline Stories

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

As a part of the Skyscraper Museum's family programming, kids will listen to a reading of Scott Santoro's The Little Skyscraper, then create their very own illustrated short story based on a favorite real or fantasy city! Tall tales of …

Flowers Towers — The Skyscraper Museum

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Children will learn about various buildings that look like flowers. Then, they will go across the street to the park to find inspiration to design their very own flower towers! All ages. RSVP required. $5 per child; members free.

Sky Boys — The Skyscraper Museum

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Children are invited to hear the story of the Empire State Building's construction in a reading of Deborah Hopkinson's award-winning book Sky Boys. Following the reading, children will have the opportunity to design their very own skyscraper. All ages. RSVP …

Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring Book Talk — The Skyscraper Museum

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring, urban historians and co-editors of the book of collected short essays by Jane Jacobs entitled Vital Little Plans, celebrate her 101st birthday week with a conversation on her continuing influence. Reservations are required, and priority …

Living Structures: What is Biomimicry? — The Skyscraper Museum

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Throughout history, nature has been one of man's most important sources of inspiration. In this workshop, kids will learn about buildings that mimic things in nature, from sea sponges to termite mounds. After that, they will design their own buildings …

John Freemal Gill Book Talk — The Gargoyle Hunters

The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place, New York, United States

Join the Skyscraper Museum as John Freeman Gill discusses his debut novel The Gargoyle Hunters. Hilarious and poignant, the book is a love letter to a vanishing city and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New …