SUMMER GROUPS - Miles of Tiles

Description

Discover the variety of art found throughout New York City’s transportation system, including visual art, poetry, and music, through an immersive tour of the Museum’s exhibits and vintage train collection that explores the connection between public art and mass transit.

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New York Transit Museum Virtual Events and Parties

We are not booking virtual events or parties at this time.
Planning a remote holiday party, staff happy hour, or birthday party? Celebrate in subway-style! Museum staff will take you and up to 30 guests on a Zoom tour of the Museum, located in a 1936 subway station, followed by an activity of your choosing. Visit some of our favorite vintage train cars and hear stories about fascinating events and people in NYC history. Then, have fun with an activity that's right for your group.

All Parties Include:

  • 2 Transit Museum staff members who will host and keep the party moving!
  • A tour of the Museum's platform, with time to ask questions and chat.
  • A participatory activity such as a round of Trivia, an Art Activity, or Breakout Rooms.
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New York Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum is dedicated to telling and preserving the stories of mass transportation – extraordinary engineering feats, workers who labored in the tunnels over 100 years ago, communities that were drastically transformed, and the ever-evolving technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year. (Opening hours only reflect the group tour schedule. Please visit our website for the general public hours.)

Spring 2024 Dates
Now - June 21
Wednesday - Friday
10am, 11am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1pm, 2pm

Summer 2024 Dates
July 10 - August 16
Wednesday - Friday
Dates will be released May/June.

SCHOOL GROUPS: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/learn/schoolgroup/ (Book all classes separately, do not combine classes.)

Group Capacity:
General Education and ICT Group - $200
 - Pre-K: up to 18 students (9 chaperones)
- Kindergarten: up to 25 students (7 chaperones)
- Grades 1-12: up to 36 participants (including youth and chaperones)

Special Education Self-Contained Groups - $100
- 17 participants (including youth and chaperones)

ADULT GROUPS:
- Adults up to 30 participants
- Visit for group rates: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/learn/grouptours/
- Access Groups up to 17 participants (including staff/chaperones) - $100

Scroll down the page to view up-to-date tour availability and/or to book a tour. You will need an Explorable Places account to complete the reservation process.

THEMED TOURS (60 minutes):

  • Moving Our Communities: Learn about the transit workers; the people who help commuters move throughout the city. (K-12)
  • Art on the Go (Formerly known as Miles of Tiles): Art, music, and poetry that can be found in the transit system. (K-12)
  • Journey to the Past: Transit history told through a tour of vintage train cars and storytelling. (K-12)
  • Moving The Millions: An introduction to transit history and the technology that made it possible. (K-12, Adult)
  • Subway Tracks: A history of transit and how to safely ride (Special Education Only; 6th Grade – Adult)
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Details

Subjects

History, My Community, Art, Music, Visual Arts, Poetry

Capacity

36 students

Duration

60 min.

Activity

Field Trip

Grades

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, K, Preschool

Price Options

$200.00 per Group for Non School Group

$100.00 per Group for Self Contained Special Education Class

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