NYC Teen Art Program - Designer for a Day in NYC
Select from one of four museum venues, this tour option puts teens into a designer’s seat.
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A Teen’s Museum Tour: Designer for a Day in NYC
This experiential tour led by an art historian allows families with teens to explore the decisions and discipline behind design. We’ll utilize the rotating collections of the museums below; just pick your favorite. We’ll led the tour from there with an approach that is less pedantic and more process-focused to give the teens a sense of the designer’s use of visual vocabulary and their decision-making.
This design-focused tour can include a visit to:
- Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design
- Other museums upon request; we are always up on the latest changing exhibitions and there may be other options we can offer
Along the route we can snap selfies with contemporary architecture and enjoy the experiential areas of the city and its museums that teens are sure to love. Each teen tour can customized to the teen’s interests.
Here is one example of an outing to the Cooper Hewitt Museum:
Designer for a Day: The Cooper Hewitt Experience
For the creative teen, this is a high-tech, interactive design experience like no other. First we will explore the gorgeous Carnegie Mansion and browse the museum’s current exhibitions for design inspiration, which often incorporate architecture, decorative arts, and fashion or technology design.
Cooper Hewitt’s cutting-edge Immersion Room allows visitors to electronically explore captivating designs and objects that intrigue them most. This gallery space with massive touch-screen tables let you interact with your favorite objects and practice your own hand at designing:
- Draw improvements and additions for the things that you loved
- Create your own designs, whether for everyday objects or works of art
- Instantly search the museum’s holdings for designs matching shapes you’ve created
In the Immersion Room, teens can draft patterns and watch as their creations are projected onto the walls surrounding them – even as they’re creating them. The best part? Your virtual portfolio – including all of your own designs and the museum pieces that inspired them – will be permanently saved online and accessible from any smartphone, tablet or laptop with your individualized code.
Pricing Questions
Private tours for 1 – 4 people in your group booked online* start at $225 per hour (a 5% discount over tours booked via email or phone). All tours have a two-hour minimum. Additional people and/or additional time have an additional fee. Museum admission needs to be added for each person. This is added during your booking. We will get your tickets ahead of time for you. So you can skip the lines!
* For those who need a bit more service via email and phone, our pricing begins at $225 per hour for 1 – 4 people. Larger groups are $50 per adult, $25 per child.
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