Summer Visits
Brooklyn Children’s Museum welcomes camp groups and daycares Tuesday through Friday between 10 am–1 pm.
- A 50% deposit made by credit card is required in order to confirm a spot for your group.
- Your visit is confirmed once you receive confirmation from BCM personnel and your deposit has been paid.
- There must be one adult present for every five children in the group.
- Groups without an advance reservation cannot be accommodated at this time.
- ColorLab is not open during group visit hours.
- Please note: If you need to reschedule your visit to the museum within two weeks, you will be charged a $50 rescheduling fee.
- Please note: Groups will be charged for the number of children reserved upon booking. If the number of children on the day of the group visit exceeds the total included in the original reservation, an additional cost per child will be applied. Standard admission discounts do not apply to group visits.
Self-Guided Visit
2 Hours
$10 per child
Lunch space : $40 for 15 children or less; $55 for 15 – 40 children; $70 for 40 children or more
Additional self-guided time in the Museum: $50 per each additional half-hour
Educator-Led Program and Self-Guided Visit
2 hours: 1 hour Program, 1 hour Self-Guided
$14 per child
Lunch space : $40 for 15 children or less; $55 for 15 – 40 children; $70 for 40 children or more
Additional self-guided time in the Museum: $50 per each additional half-hour
Each educator-led program can have a max 30 participants.
Educator-Led Programs
Join a BCM Educator to participate in an engaging arts, culture, or science program. Choose from the following programs below.
Amazing Animals
Recommended: Grades Pre-K – 5
Whether they can regrow a tail or lift 1,000 times their weight, our animal friends at Brooklyn Children’s Museum have super powers! All animals, including humans, have unique gifts that help us to survive, grow, solve problems, and live our daily lives. Students explore the science of adaptation and expert survival skills with reptiles and insects and other BCM animal friends. Inspired by what we observe of our animal friends, students move their bodies and reflect on their own superpowers.
Beautiful Us
Recommended: Grades Pre-K – 5
People around the world use different materials to adorn our bodies and to tell stories about who we are. Beautiful Us is a cultural collections investigation and art-making workshop in which students explore the unique and universal reasons we adorn ourselves. Students investigate cultural adornments from our collection and then make their very own body adornment that expresses themselves.
Design Your World
Recommended: Grades K – 5
Which shapes are the strongest? How can we combine them to build a structure? What is a blueprint? In this program, students will become engineers and architects as they design and build their structures to be strong and sturdy.
Harness the Wind
Recommended: Grades 3 – 5
How do we get electricity? Where does it come from? One way to generate electricity is by using wind! Students learn about sustainable energy, design their own wind turbines, and test their designs to see how much energy they can produce from wind alone.
Me and My Super Sense Self
Recommended: Grades Pre-K – 5
Activate your senses through looking, listening, and hands-on exploration of highlights from the Museum’s collection. Students will interact with a live animal, investigate a cultural object, and design a kaleidoscope that changes their perspective.
Our Littlest Neighbors
Recommended: Grades Pre-K – 5
Whether it’s a nest, a shell, a hive, or a burrow, all animals create unique homes. Through exploration of objects from BCM’s natural science collection, students investigate the ways that animals create shelters and how these homes offer protection and enable them to grow and thrive. Students consider the everyday needs of an animal of their choosing, and will then use natural materials to create a mini habitat and describe the animal who could make a home there.
Seeds on the Move
Recommended: Grades 1 – 5
Seeds are one of nature’s most famous engineers! In this program, students explore wind dispersal, a common seed distribution strategy in the biological world. Using maple seed pods from BCM’s natural science collection, students will investigate the structure that has inspired wind turbines, drones, hovercrafts by aerospace engineers, and more. Using a wind tunnel and dropper, students will design and build seed pods and test what makes a seed pod most successful.
Symmetry All Around
Recommended: Grades Pre-K – 2
From the natural beauty of leaves to the engineering marvels of the built environment, symmetry is everywhere! Students explore the properties of symmetry within cultural objects and science specimens from BCM’s collection, build their own symmetrical creations, and discover why symmetry matters!