Family Guide to Cooper Hewitt Copy

Explore design for the senses! Interactive installations and touchable objects designed to inspire wonder and new ways of accessing the world.

Installed in the museum’s Process Lab, learn how designers use and create sounds to enhance the user experience and give objects human-like personalities. Design your own sound effects for Trash Bot, a robotic street-cleaning machine!

Cooper Hewitt's collection of over 10,000 wallcovering designs is the inspiration for this high-tech experience. Visitors create their own wallpaper patterns and project them on the walls to see the impact.

An enclosed garden with tables for dining, Ping Pong, and more. Continually updated with new design installations and objects.

Cooper Hewitt's one-of-a-kind interactive Pen gives you the power to build your own collection of design objects and play designer at the interactive tables throughout the museum.

Access Cooper Hewitt's collection of over 210,000 design objects spanning 30 centuries and sketch your own designs at one of our high-resolution, touchscreen tables.

Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, these playful, comfortable, and functional chairs rock side-to-side and spin, but never fall over.

Discover fun and innovative products to encourage problem-solving, teach sustainability through play, and inspire creativity all year round.

Italian desserts and espresso drinks, panini, pizza, salads, breakfast selections, and more. With seating inside and in the garden.