Two more galleries round out the museum, which is knitted together on the ground floor of the building: The Legacy Gallery and The Salon. (Students at the museum's preschool have already been hard at work!) Nooks are carved in the hallway to provide seating for kids to curl up with a book or take a break from the museum's bustle.
On the opposite side of The Living Room, light streams from a skylight, illuminating the studio spaces that provide room to work and create for children and the museum's Artist-in-Residence, Harlem native David Shrobe. The studio is filled with child-sized tables waiting for visitors and schoolchildren to create masterpieces of their own. RELATED: NYC's Best Museums and Exhibits for Kids You won't find ball pits or water tables at this intimate museum, but plenty of engaging art adorns the walls, and the art studio spaces and a storytelling lineup, which has not yet been released, will likely draw crowds. Small touches like hanging art low enough to engage a toddler, as well as its FREE admission for those 8 and under go a long way in achieving the group's goal of making art more accessible to preschool and early-elementary aged kids.Ĭolorful murals by Saya Woolfalk run over six walls of the museum's main hall, dubbed The Living Room, reflecting organizers' hopes that it becomes the "living room" of the local community. Woolfalk, integrated the drawings of her 4-year-old daughter into her work, The Pollen Catchers' Color Mixing Machine. Art is hung at a kid-friendly level in each of the gallery spaces.
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