Let your kids take over the city. In Children Museum of Manhattan’s new 3,000 square-foot interactive gallery, “NYC + Me: A Little Bite of the Big Apple,” opening on Thursday, September 24, kids can take on any number of adult roles, such as taxi drivers, street performers, or even mayor. The interactive experience surrounds them with the sights, sounds, tastes, and spirit of the city.
Kids can encounter any number of big-city big-person experiences, doing day-to-day tasks like issuing parking tickets and learning to parallel park, or something more artistic like making public art or building small skyscrapers.
The entire experience is made real through detail, down to the pigeons and pizza shops, and this realism helps children encounter a smaller-scale city in which they can make sense of the bustling world they inhabit.
Visitors can put on uniforms and police the streets, become construction workers, prep meals as chefs, ice skate (in their socks), go through the New York Minute obstacle course, contribute to the city skyline as a construction worker, and much more.
A variety of weekend workshops, programs, and performances will also complement the exhibit’s offerings and introduce kids to the best of New York City’s Arts through the museum’s Gateway to the Arts initiative.
The exhibition will be open through January 18, 2016.
To learn more about “NYC + Me” and view a complete schedule of upcoming programming, visit cmom.org!
