Tour Details
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Product Type
- Tour
- Venues
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photos & Highlights
- Explore the collection of the Met with interactive, family-friendly storytelling
- Led by an expert guide with experience working with young minds and their learning needs
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Tour Description
Our educator-led tour of the Met for kids tour is a wonderful adventure into the ways stories can be told through art. Together, by exploring objects from collections across the museum, such as ancient Greek sculpture, Renaissance altarpieces, Medieval armor, American portraiture, or Impressionist landscapes, we will examine how artists communicate narrative throughout history in a variety of media. We’ll learn to read these narratives and discover what they can tell us about the time, place, and people connected with each work.
As this is a private walk, the material will be tailored to the level and interests of the youngest participants. For children 12 and under your guide will engage them to find elements in paintings, or a drawing exploration to keep the children interacting while learning. For middle schoolers, the emphasis is placed on questioning the works of art and our assumptions about them. In each case, we ask that you tell us about your children's current studies and provide any comments about their learning styles you can.
We make a special group reservation for our visit to the museum, which allows you to skip the long entry lines to the museum. These reservation tickets will be added to your cart when you check out. Your guide will have your entry buttons with him/her on the day of the walk.
Museum memberships cannot substitute for the group reservation required by the museum. All reservation ticket sales are final and cannot be refunded.
PLEASE NOTE: The Annual Met Gala Event happens on the first Monday of May every year. The Met is only closed on the day of the event itself, but many galleries (usually including the Temple of Dendur) will also be closed in the week before and after the event.
Museum memberships cannot substitute for the group reservation required by the museum. All reservation ticket sales are final and cannot be refunded.
PLEASE NOTE: The Annual Met Gala Event happens on the first Monday of May every year. The Met is only closed on the day of the event itself, but many galleries (usually including the Temple of Dendur) will also be closed in the week before and after the event.
Is this tour wheelchair accessible?
Yes, this tour is wheelchair accessible.
Yes, this tour is wheelchair accessible.
Where You'll Start
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61 Reviews
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We were really disappointed in our tour. We were looking so much forward to this experience. Guide was very nice but you can see she is young and not extremely knowledgeable about pieces in the Met. She also did not engage my daughter in the tour end mostly spoke towards us the adults. We though this tour was for kids and therefore more engaging and fun for my daughter. She was board and uninterested. My husband and I also not super drawn to the pieces she picked or her very superficial explanation. I could have read it or taken s group tour. When we take kid tours there usually fun and have games or activities that engage children and the tour guides totally connect with them. Most guides know a lot about the pieces they pick. 450 dollars was a total rip off for us. You just don’t charge that kind of money and not send an expert and some one who’knows how to engage children and make it fun for them.
Gabriela
Aug 20, 2023
jonathan was an excellent guide who provided a unique and insider pov of the museum, its history, the characters involved, and the highlights. he is great with kids and adults and is sensitive to the audience's interest levels and can therefore pivot based on his reading of the room. the three hours flew by really quickly.
Lisa
Jul 24, 2023
Isabelle was amazing. Her activities kept the kids highly engaged and she could really get to each kid on their level. For ages 13 and 10, this felt amazing to me.
Emily
Jun 2, 2023