Children's Museum of the Arts Gives Kids More Space to Create

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The relocated, supersized Children’s Museum of the Arts is serious about inspiring kids to explore, create and fall in love with art.

The recent opening of the the much-anticipated new Children’s Museum of the Arts at 103 Charlton Street gives the city’s youngest artists a colorful new space to get creative. The 10,000 square-foot museum—triple the size of its former home at 182 Lafayette Street—was designed by Work AC in the shell of a former loading dock. Spread over three levels, the airy, light-filled building is filled with cool spaces and places to explore. The WEE Arts Studio lets tots up to age five explore their creativity with early childhood-focused art workshops by staff artists and furniture and tools designed for tiny hands and feet. An increased focus on skills-based arts instruction and new programming for tweens and teens includes a painting room, a clay bar, a teen studio and a media lab for photography and filmmaking as well as a full range of programs and classes, First Friday Teen Nights and much more.

There’s a quiet room for the occasional battery recharge, but that’s about the only place in the building where free expression isn’t encouraged. A ball pond and a network of rope bridges for climbing (and spying on visitors below) add to the play factor, and plenty of impressive exhibitions featuring art by and of interest to kids will give visitors of all ages plenty to talk about for a long time to come.

Read more at Daily Candy Kids and New York Magazine.

Children’s Museum of the Arts; 103 Charlton Street (between Greenwich and Hudson Streets); 212-274-0986

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Children's Museum of the Arts Gives Kids More Space to Create

OCTOBER 7, 2011

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