New York Transit Museum
Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Located underground in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn, the Museum’s platform level spans a full city block and features a rotating selection of twenty vintage subway and elevated cars, some dating back to 1904.
Visitors can board our historic train cars, sit behind the wheel of a city bus, walk through a century of turnstile design, and explore changing exhibitions that illuminate the cultural, social, and technological past—and future—of mass transit.
Judd Foundation
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Judd Foundation maintains and preserves Donald Judd’s permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives in New York and Marfa, Texas. The Foundation promotes a wider understanding of Judd’s artistic legacy by providing access to these spaces and resources and by developing scholarly and educational programs. Explore his SOHO home and its treasures.
NYU Grey Art Museum
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 11:15am - 12:30pm
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert is the first U.S. exhibition to survey Australia’s most globally recognized Aboriginal art movement. For the past five decades, Papunya Tula Artists—the oldest Aboriginal-owned arts organization in Australia—has stood at the forefront of contemporary Aboriginal art, producing some of the most iconic art and artists in Australian history.
In 1971, at the remote township of Papunya, a small group of Aboriginal men began painting their ancestral designs with acrylic paint on scraps of cardboard, Masonite, and linoleum. From these humble beginnings, a multimillion-dollar industry would emerge, changing the face of contemporary art and creating a powerful voice for Indigenous artists that reverberates into the present. Inspired by the sweeping ancestral landscape of the Australian desert, it is one of the world’s greatest stories of resilience, self-determination, and the power of art.
The township of Papunya was founded in 1959 as a settlement for Aboriginal people who were relocated from their desert homelands. Living in cramped conditions, the community brought together people of diverse backgrounds and languages. Painting offered a way of asserting authority: of explaining who the townspeople were and where they came from amid this chaotic mélange of strangers. Using ancient iconographies rarely seen by outsiders, a new artistic renaissance sprang forth as artists defiantly asserted themselves against the uncertainty of colonial displacement. In 1973, the group founded their own company, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd—the first Aboriginal-owned cooperative in Australia.
The New York Historical Society
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
New York’s first museum, The New York Historical is a leading cultural institution documenting over 400 years of American history through a peerless collection of art, documents, and artifacts. Offerings span groundbreaking exhibitions; acclaimed educational programs for teachers and students nationwide; and thought-provoking conversations among leading scholars, journalists, and thinkers about the past, present, and future of the American experiment. The New York Historical is a museum of museums and a collection of collections. They elevate the perspectives and scholarship that define the United States’ democratic heritage and challenge us all to shape our ongoing history for the better.
Jewish Theological Seminary: Rare Book Room
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
The JTS Library’s Special Collections are world-class. With the largest collection of Hebrew manuscripts on earth, the most complete collection of early Hebrew printed books (incunables), 43,000 fragments from the Cairo Genizah, and much more, few collections offer students, scholars, and visitors material of such quality, depth, and breadth.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 | 11:00am -12:00pm
By the early 20th century, the farmhouse was in disrepair, and the rural character of the surrounding neighborhood was quickly changing. The extension of the IRT subway line to northern Manhattan led to rapid development in the neighborhood, and in 1915, the house was threatened with demolition. Many newspaper articles of the early 20th century commented on the rapid change in the neighborhood and the many losses of farms and old houses.
In response to the possible danger of losing the farmhouse, Mary Alice Dyckman Dean and Fannie Fredericka Dyckman Welch, daughters of Isaac Michael Dyckman (aka James Frederick Smith), the last Dyckman child to grow up in the house, bought the property in 1915 to ensure its preservation, and by July of 1916, the farmhouse was open to visitors.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace, located in Manhattan, is a National Historic Site in the Gramercy Park area that is a 1923 reconstruction of the original 1848 townhouse. Rebuilt after the original was demolished, the exterior was designed to match the original brownstone structure, while the interior is a meticulously furnished replica with five period rooms and many original Roosevelt family items to recreate the atmosphere of the 1860s.
Beyond the period rooms, the site includes museum galleries with exhibits on Roosevelt's legacy, a library, an auditorium, and a gift shop.
The reconstruction was undertaken by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association and is considered an early example of historic preservation in the United States. It is the only presidential birthplace that has been rebuilt.
M&S Schmalberg Flowers
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Factory Tours in the Heart of NYC’s Garment District
Experience the magic behind each bloom with a behind-the-scenes tour of our historic atelier. From century-old cutting molds to hand-assembled petals, you’ll witness the craftsmanship that has made M&S Schmalberg a living legacy in the fashion world.
- Explore every step of the vintage flower-making process
- Meet the artisans behind the blooms
- Walk through rows of handcrafted fabric flowers
- Learn about rare materials and tools from the early 1900s
Walking Tour of the Complete Lower East Side: Faith, Food, and Infamy
Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (optional self-paid mini food tour follows)
The Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan is a neighborhood that has embodied the hopes and struggles of generations of newcomers to America. Since the mid-19th century, Manhattan’s LES has been a magnet drawing people from all around the globe.
It is the place where hundreds of thousands of immigrants have taken their first steps on the road to the American dream. It is a section of the city that was once home to Africans freed from slavery, followed by Irish, German, Southern Italian, Eastern European, and Jewish immigrants fleeing from starvation, political turmoil, oppression, and economic deprivation.
Learn about the history and today, where a trendy young population is moving into the area, opening yet another chapter in the story of the LES.
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm
The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum is dedicated to preserving and promoting the effervescent history of seltzer water. We are located in the oldest seltzer works in New York City, a local, family-run business now in its fourth generation. Together, we offer a Museum and Factory Tour that celebrates the manufacturing of seltzer, the science of seltzer, and seltzer as a cultural force in New York City and the world beyond.
We are a unique, quirky museum, both interactive and inspiring, inside an active factory (Brooklyn Seltzer Boys), manufacturing a sustainable local product. Guided tours and exhibits are educational, covering 2,400 years of business and cultural history