School Visits
Brooklyn Children’s Museum welcomes school groups, daycares and other groups Tuesday through Friday between 10 am–1 pm. We offer two types of experiences: self-guided visits, and educator-led programs followed by a self-guided visit.
Self-Guided Visit
2 hours.
Title 1 schools: $9 per student
Private schools, Non-Title 1 public schools: $11 per student
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 educator-led program, 1 hour self-guided exploration.
Title 1 schools: $11 per student
Private schools, Non-Title 1 public schools: $15 per student
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.
More Information
- A 50% non-refundable 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, Nature’s Engineers, and special exhibits are not open to group visits.
- If you need to reschedule your visit to the Museum within two weeks, you will be charged a $50 rescheduling fee.
- Groups will be charged for the number of students reserved upon booking. If the number of students on the day of the group visit exceeds the total included in the original reservation, an additional cost per student will be applied.
- Standard admission discounts do not apply to group visits.
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, and solve problems.
Students explore the science of adaptation and draw each animal in their own personal field guide. Through close observation and physical touch, students become animal scientists!
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.
Brooklyn Voices
Explore the rich stories of Brooklynites through oral histories and objects in the Brooklyn Voices exhibit. As students discover the ways that Brooklynites’ lives are similar and different, they understand themselves as part of a larger New York story.
K-2nd grade
Students will create their own Brooklyn book, making personal connections to their family histories, the place they live, and each other.
3rd-5th grade
Students learn about historical and primary sources such as photographs, artifacts, oral histories, and maps that we use to understand the past. They ask questions to guide their own oral-history collection and create an artwork that expresses their own Brooklyn story.
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.
Earth Advocates: Climate Change and Collective Action
Recommended: Grades Pre-K-5
In this ecology-based program, students explore some of the issues of climate change that affect our everyday lives such as global warming, pollution, and renewable resources. Students interact with objects from the Museum’s collection and design an artwork that expresses the ways they envision becoming the next generation of Earth’s champions.
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.
Keep It Movin’
Special School Program
September 2025 – May 2026
Recommended: Grades 2-5
Welcome to Mobilab – a hands-on lab about inventing, testing, and perfecting toy vehicles. Build your own vehicle and examine, measure, and weigh it. Now the testing begins: Can it ride on ramps, tackle rugged terrain, and jump through a hoop?
After exploring the special exhibit, students become designers of their own vehicles. Students will create, design, and then test their cars to see how they move on the tracks.
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.
Speak Up, Speak Out
Recommended: Grades K-5
Say it loud, say it now! Changemakers of all ages impact our communities every day. In Speak Up, Speak Out, students are encouraged to find their voices, practice listening to others, and express themselves through art. In this workshop, students are inspired by artists who use their practice and techniques to advocate for their communities. Students will collage and create a quilt square to express themselves through art.
Symmetry All Around
Recommended: Grades Pre-K-2
Symmetry is everywhere! In this program, students will explore the properties of symmetry within science specimens from BCM’s collection and will discover why symmetry matters through movement, observation, and art.