Public Programs

Explore this month’s featured exhibition at your own pace, with opportunities to discover, connect, and engage with the objects and ideas on display. View full event details here.

Coinciding with Design Across Time—Cooper Hewitt’s current exhibition showcasing just 125 works from its collection of 215,000+ objects—join us for an inside look at the recently opened V&A East Storehouse. In this edition of Making the Museum, hear from architect Elizabeth Diller and curators Brendan Cormier and Catherine Ince, the team behind the V&A East Storehouse, in conversation with Cooper Hewitt's Director Maria Nicanor. Founded in 1852, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) now has over 2.5 million objects located across six sites in England. The V&A East Storehouse in London is one of the latest and most ambitious in which the public is invited into the museum’s collection archive and storage. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the building is home to 250,000 objects, 350,000 books, and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collection of fashion, textiles, furniture, theater and performance, metalwork, ceramics, glass, sculpture, architecture, paintings, and product design. View full event details here.

In conjunction with Frederic Church in Jamaica, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Victoria Johnson shares the dramatic and consequential life of the artist Frederic Church, whose footsteps she followed around the globe for her new biography of Church, Glorious Country. Church’s curiosity, bravery, and passion for nature drove him to explore the world,... View full event details here.

Come with us to the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library for a visual description and tactile tour and workshop. View full event details here.