Family Programs at New York Transit Museum

Family Programs at New York Transit Museum take place in a museum that is housed underground in a decommissioned 1936 subway station and features a platform level that spans a full city block. Families can board historic subway and elevated train cars, sit behind the wheel of a city bus, walk through a century of turnstile design, and explore changing exhibitions that focus on the cultural, social, and technological past and future of mass transit.

Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum is a self-supporting division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of New York’s mass transportation, including engineering projects, the labor of workers who carved tunnels over a century ago, communities affected by transit, and the technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day. New York Transit Museum programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Last updated July 29, 2026.