Celebrate the Year of the Snake at MOCA with a fun-filled Lunar New Year Family Festival! Enjoy cultural activities and surprises for all ages.
Morning session: 10 AM–1 PM; Afternoon session: 2 PM–5 PM.
Limited free tickets available for Culture Pass, Cool Culture, and Culture Connected families. Tickets at the door if capacity allows.

Celebrate Lunar New Year with an extended conversation about Isamu Noguchi’s Lunars, featured in the "Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation" exhibition. Join us on the second floor for this insightful discussion, free with admission. No advance registration required.

Celebrate the Year of the Snake with Brooklyn author Michele Wong McSween as she launches Gordon & Li Li’s: Celebrate Chinese New Year Coloring & Activity Book! Join us on January 29, 2025, at 2 PM for interactive storytelling, bilingual activities, crafts, and a book signing. Perfect for families with kids ages 3-8. Don’t miss MOCACREATE: Lunar New Year Museum Makeover happening the same day from 1–4 PM!

Join MOCA for MOCACREATE: Lunar New Year Museum Makeover! Help us welcome the Year of the Snake by crafting colorful decorations with teaching artist Yu Rong. Your creations will be displayed throughout the Museum during the Lunar New Year Family Festival. Perfect for families and open to all!

Join us for Art for Tots (3–4), a program designed for preschoolers and their caregivers. This month, explore stones and sand through Noguchi’s sculptures inspired by Japanese gardens. The program includes gallery exploration and strategies for navigating museum spaces with young children. Registration includes full admission to the Museum.

Heat up your Sunday dinner and explore Granger and Güt’s constructed village as they discuss gaming architecture’s parallels to discriminatory urban design, modding as a mechanism of imagining beyond constraints, and defined systems of play.

To join this program, please download Lego Fortnite on your preferred gaming device. Alternatively, you can tune in through YouTube Live. Please check back for a stream link.

Join experts for an exciting discussion on the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's icy moon! Discover why Europa is one of the most promising locations in the solar system for potential habitability, with its vast ocean of liquid water beneath the icy crust. This moon is believed to hold more water than all of Earth's oceans combined, along with essential organic materials and stable conditions that could support life. Don't miss this chance to explore the future of space exploration!

Explore New York City’s past during the 22nd annual Open House New York Weekend! On Sunday, October 20, enjoy free guided tours of Historic Richmond Town, the city's living history village. Tours are available at 12, 1, 2, and 3pm, offering a special behind-the-scenes look at this historic gem.

Step back in time at Historic Richmond Town's annual Old Home Day, a celebration of living history and Staten Island's cultural heritage. Explore historic trades through live demonstrations, sip freshly pressed apple cider, and savor warm soup cooked over an open flame. Enjoy the sounds of historical music and the crack of muskets across the village fields. Visit the Native Encampment and Voorlezer's House to experience the complex interactions between the Lenape and Dutch settlers of the 16th century. A day filled with tradition, history, and community!

Explore the powerful prints and sculptures in Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies at the Brooklyn Museum. Discover how artists use repetition in their work, and then create your own sketches inspired by the exhibition.

Free with Museum admission. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Swing by the Brooklyn Museum’s lobby in September for a jazz performance by Siren Xypher! This dynamic trio—Melanie Dyer (viola), Mara Rosenbloom (piano), and Kyoko Kitamura (vocals)—brings together art songs, spoken word, and improvisation for an evening of intricate, original music. Experience their unique blend of humor, warmth, and surprise. Presented in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America.

Explore historic houses by candlelight and delve into folklore and mysteries from the past. This program is led by historical interpreters who discuss the lives and deaths of Staten Islanders, including the infamous accused who stood trial at the 3rd County Courthouse.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO:

This program was formerly known as 'Mystery After Dark'.

This program is not a paranormal 'Ghost Hunting' experience, but rather a storytelling interpretive program.

The tour begins at the Historical Museum. Please check in at the Third County Courthouse and Visitor Center at 441 Clarke Avenue, where you will be directed to the Museum.

Suitable for ages 8 and older. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Weather permitting: runs rain or shine, except in cases of severe inclement or cold weather.

Pets are not permitted.

Please join us for an opportunity for tea and conversation with artist Nsenga Knight in the gallery on select Fridays and Saturdays during the run of her exhibition Close to Home.

Food culture played a pivotal role in the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Close to Home will host a scheduled series of social gatherings by serving tea in this installation. With this act of hospitality, Knight calls on viewers to consider the power of sensorial and experiential engagement to foster understanding, connection, and appreciation among people from various corners of the world.

Celebrate World Cyanotype Day on September 28th at MOCA! Join teaching artist Yu Rong and create your own cyanotype using paper shapes, leaves, and sunlight. While your art develops, dive into the fascinating 180-year history of this early photography method or explore the museum’s exhibits. At MOCACREATE, families can paint, craft, and collage together—every month brings new themes and inspiration from local artists. All ages welcome!

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with MOCA! Enjoy a festive evening filled with a mahjong lesson led by expert Sokie Lee, moonlit music from the New Asia Chamber Music Society, and a tasting of hand-brewed Qinghong rice wine. Indulge in mooncakes, sip specialty drinks, and enjoy a few surprises. Whether reconnecting with your roots or discovering something new, this night is all about joy, culture, and community!

This two year fellowship provides artists rent-free studio space and a full-time salaried position at the Museum, encouraging co-creation, relationship building, situated research, and experimentation alongside QM’s staff and communities. Independent exhibitions have developed from each fellow’s engagement with the complexities of the Museum’s site, current and future programming, and QM’s archives of materials related to the 1939-1940 and 1964-1965 New York World’s Fairs that occurred in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and Climate Week 2024 with a community poetry event! Hear readings from Arte en el Noguchi participants, featuring poems from Claudia Prado's "Entering a Forest" workshop. Explore themes of nature and heritage through evocative texts. No registration required—just join us for this inspiring celebration!

Set sail with your creative side! Join us for a ferry ride to Staten Island, capture stunning Polaroid shots, and explore the St. George neighborhood. Stick around for a fun zine-making workshop after the walk—bring your own camera or rent one from the Alice Austen House!

Please join us for an opportunity for tea and conversation with artist Nsenga Knight in the gallery on select Fridays and Saturdays during the run of her exhibition Close to Home.

Food culture played a pivotal role in the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Close to Home will host a scheduled series of social gatherings by serving tea in this installation. With this act of hospitality, Knight calls on viewers to consider the power of sensorial and experiential engagement to foster understanding, connection, and appreciation among people from various corners of the world.

Please join us for an opportunity for tea and conversation with artist Nsenga Knight in the gallery on select Fridays and Saturdays during the run of her exhibition Close to Home.

Food culture played a pivotal role in the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Close to Home will host a scheduled series of social gatherings by serving tea in this installation. With this act of hospitality, Knight calls on viewers to consider the power of sensorial and experiential engagement to foster understanding, connection, and appreciation among people from various corners of the world.

Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a series of live concerts in the Museum’s first floor galleries. Doors at 3 pm; performances start at 3:30 pm. Tickets include full access to the Museum.

Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Cameron A. Granger, Nsenga Knight, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz in a virtual verbal description tour of their respective exhibitions, 9999, Close to Home, and Buenos Vecinos. Using various media and approaches across sculpture, printmaking, painting, collage, and video, these three artists engage with archives and history to reframe and consider new perspectives.

Step into the musical journey of pianist and composer Wajdi Cherif, as he unveils his latest project, “Jazz Explorations 2024”, a music program that features a captivating blend of original compositions and reimagined jazz standards. Experience the power of a jazz trio presenting an inspired and interactive performance filled with spontaneous musical dialogues. Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music and inspiration.

We’re celebrating Qixi, the most romantic holiday on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. On this night, Niulang and Zhinü, the cowherd and weaver girl, are able to meet for just one night. Help them reunite by adding a mixed-media magpie to our bridge of magpies and stars to shine the way. Then, celebrate those you adore by making a woven paper heart to share how you feel.

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to join an insightful discussion with Dr. Melody Yunzi Li, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Houston and author of Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. This event will explore how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions.

Visitors of all ages are invited to learn more about Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures and explore their own designs in the Education Studio (Level C). No advanced registration is required.

Aircraft design is essential to how airplanes and helicopters soar through the sky. Explore Intrepid’s aircraft collection to hone observational skills, compare different types of aircraft, and try out your own designs.

ShopRite Kidz Cook is a caregiver-and-me program that introduces children to a diversity of foods, explains cooking concepts and helps build dexterity with cooking utensils. Young cooks will be practicing their cooking skills to make a new and fun dish every class!