Visit the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin and explore artist and designer Es Devlin’s set creations, which help some of the biggest performers in the world convey who they are to audiences. Then, consider: How would you express yourself on stage? Create a portrait of yourself exactly how you want to be seen and turn it into a fabulous set for your own pop star alter ego!

Design Practice is heading to Teens Take the Met! Join Cooper Hewitt interns as they lead a hands-on beading workshop inspired by jewelry in the museum’s collection. o Create your own own bracelet, necklace, or phone charm! Afterwards, make sure to drop in for the other teen-only activities, including art making, performances, music, and more. This workshop will take place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028 

In this curator guided tour of Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols, visitors will discover the stories behind symbols from the STOP sign to the laugh-cry emoji and learn about how symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. As communication tools designed to break language barriers, symbols instruct, protect, entertain,...

This panel discussion explores the ways in which collections–both personal and institutional–express value systems, mark cultural shifts, and provide frameworks for organizing, understanding, and critiquing complex ideas as they are expressed by objects. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, this program gathers experts from a range of collecting roles to discuss how and why they collect.  

Explore Cooper Hewitt’s historic mansion and design your own dream house! Built for Andrew Carnegie from 1899-1902, follow a self-guided scavenger hunt to learn more about the museum when it was a family home that included a conservatory, a billiard room, and a cellar coal car traveling over a miniature train track. See the original floor plans and use them as inspiration to draw your own plans for a luxurious abode.

Explore Cooper Hewitt’s historic mansion and design your own dream house! Built for Andrew Carnegie from 1899-1902, follow a self-guided scavenger hunt to learn more about the museum when it was a family home that included a conservatory, a billiard room, and a cellar coal car traveling over a miniature train track. See the original floor plans and use them as inspiration to draw your own plans for a luxurious abode.

In conjunction with our latest exhibition, Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, we invite Cooper Hewitt members to join us for an evening with award-winning designers and weavers Helena Hernmarck and Elizabeth Whelan. In conversation with Acting Director of Curatorial, Matilda McQuaid, Hernmarck and Whelan will discuss the innovations and inspirations which define their practices. A light...

Cooper Hewitt’s Give Me A Sign exhibition explores the history of graphic symbols as documented by industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss in his Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols (1972). This program expands upon the symbol lexicon covered in the Symbol Sourcebook to include tactile symbols, used by people who are blind or have low vision, as well as people with other complex disabilities. Like their 2D counterparts, these symbols quickly convey important information, and they are often developed through collaborative and iterative design processes. 

Join us for an original dance performance by writer and dancer Jerron Herman, in which he will engage and respond to the historic Carnegie Mansion, Cooper Hewitt’s home. The performance will travel through several galleries on the first floor of the museum and attendees will be encouraged to interact with the performance piece by writing on the performer’s garment, designed by fashion designer Sughanda Gupta. Soundscape design by composer and vocalist Molly Joyce.

Tickets are sold out! Join Cooper Hewitt for a sensory-friendly morning before the museum opens to the general public! Gotta collect them all! Explore the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection with a scavenger hunt. Then, drop in for a design activity: What do you collect? Whether it’s shells, stickers, stamps, Pokémon cards, or sneakers, design a way to display your favorites. Take your design home and showcase your collection!

Join us for a studio visit to Atlason, a New York City-based design firm and winner of the 2023 National Design Award for Product Design. Atlason is a strategic innovation and industrial design studio founded in 2004 by Hlynur Vagn Atlason. The studio designs consumer products, furniture, and packaging for a range of companies. Their recent designs include a completely recyclable and compostable packaging system for shipping plants, a lounge chair for healthcare settings that resists microbial growth, and an ergonomic refillable razor.

Gotta collect them all! Explore the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection with a scavenger hunt. Then, drop in for a design activity: What do you collect? Whether it’s shells, stickers, stamps, Pokémon cards, or sneakers, design a way to display your favorites. Take your design home and showcase your collection!

Gotta collect them all! Explore the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection with a scavenger hunt. Then, drop in for a design activity: What do you collect? Whether it’s shells, stickers, stamps, Pokémon cards, or sneakers, design a way to display your favorites. Take your design home and showcase your collection!

Public tickets sold out, few member tickets remain available.In celebration of her first monographic exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin, join artist and stage designer Es Devlin in conversation with Dario Calmese, founder of the Institute for Black Imagination. Together they will explore imagination, memory, and what it means to lead a creative life. Exhibition curator Andrea Lipps will introduce the program.

In this curator guided tour of Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols, visitors will discover the stories behind symbols from the STOP sign to the laugh-cry emoji and learn about how symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. As communication tools designed to break language barriers, symbols instruct, protect, entertain,...