Family Programs at New York Transit Museum
99 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Family Programs at New York Transit Museum includes activities such as vintage train rides, creative workshops, guided tours and field trips, Old City Hall Tours, School and Youth Tours, Adult Group Tours, Summer Group Tours, and Nostalgia Rides. Families can also take part in special events like Person Place Thing – MTA Arts & Design Edition, Day Habilitation Day, Party on Wheels: A Family Subway Celebration!, and The Transit Operas. Visitors can board historic train cars, sit behind the wheel of a city bus, walk through a century of turnstile design, and explore changing exhibitions that illuminate the cultural, social, and technological past and future of mass transit.
• Ages: 0–12 years old
• Schedule: Special events on specific dates in May 2026, including daytime and evening options
• Price: Person Place Thing – MTA Arts & Design Edition: $15 General Public / $10 Members; Day Habilitation Day: Free; Party on Wheels: A Family Subway Celebration!: $50–$1,000; The Transit Operas: Free; Support the Vintage Train Fund entry levels: $10 = 1 entry, $20 = 3 entries, $50 = 10 entries.
Founded in 1976 as part of America’s Bicentennial, the New York Transit Museum is a self-supporting division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Friends of the New York Transit Museum, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, was established in 1995. The Museum states that it is the largest museum in North America dedicated to mass transit and describes itself as a beloved cultural institution that offers one-of-a-kind experiences such as vintage train rides and creative workshops. Its mission is to preserve and share the stories of New York’s mass transportation, including engineering feats, the labor of workers who carved tunnels over a century ago, communities transformed by transit, and the technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of 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 April 17, 2026.
• Ages: 0–12 years old
• Schedule: Special events on specific dates in May 2026, including daytime and evening options
• Price: Person Place Thing – MTA Arts & Design Edition: $15 General Public / $10 Members; Day Habilitation Day: Free; Party on Wheels: A Family Subway Celebration!: $50–$1,000; The Transit Operas: Free; Support the Vintage Train Fund entry levels: $10 = 1 entry, $20 = 3 entries, $50 = 10 entries.
Founded in 1976 as part of America’s Bicentennial, the New York Transit Museum is a self-supporting division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Friends of the New York Transit Museum, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, was established in 1995. The Museum states that it is the largest museum in North America dedicated to mass transit and describes itself as a beloved cultural institution that offers one-of-a-kind experiences such as vintage train rides and creative workshops. Its mission is to preserve and share the stories of New York’s mass transportation, including engineering feats, the labor of workers who carved tunnels over a century ago, communities transformed by transit, and the technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of 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 April 17, 2026.
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