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Be an Engineer, Just Like Rosie Revere!

Rosie Revere is a kid engineer who uses household objects to invent her gadgets and gizmos. Can you do the same for skyscrapers? Join us for a read-aloud of Andrea Beaty’s Rosie Revere, Engineer, as we learn about the role of engineers and then...

Holi Storytime and Puppet Show

Holi Storytime and Puppet Show

Kick off the Seaport community’s Holi celebration in the Seaport Museum’s introduction galleries. Festivities begin with author Anu Sehgal’s...

Holi Collaborative Mural

Holi Collaborative Mural

Celebrate Holi with the Seaport Museum by joining in to create a vibrant collaborative mural inspired by the colorful pigment thrown during the...

Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School

Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School

Now that Junie B. Jones has been going to school for over one-and-a-half years, who better to write the book on EVERYTHING you need to know? From bus...

Zaha Hadid, Queen of the Curve

Zaha Hadid, Queen of the Curve

Throughout her lifetime, the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid gained international fame as a designer who broke the rules. She designed distinctive and...

Hoppy Rabbit Playdate 华美跳跳兔亲子时光

Hoppy Rabbit Playdate 华美跳跳兔亲子时光

Every first Sunday starting March, China Institute Hoppy Rabbit Playdate program offers 1-hour open session where families can bring their children...

Andrea Beaty’s Iggy Peck, Architect

Andrea Beaty’s Iggy Peck, Architect

Architects are artists and builders! Together, we’ll read Andrea Beaty’s classic Iggy Peck, Architect and learn about the process of design and...

Mid-Winter Mosaics!

Mid-Winter Mosaics!

New York's Art Deco skyscrapers have striking façades and fanciful spires, but their beauty is on the inside, too! Many Downtown buildings have...

Valentine Like a Sailor

Valentine Like a Sailor

While you create your own special trinket for the holiday, learn about the unique history of Sailors’ Valentines—tokens of love and friendship....

Global Architecture II: Pyramids

Global Architecture II: Pyramids

Built more than 4,000 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was 481 feet tall – close to the height of a 50-story skyscraper! Constructed...

Shapes and Skyscrapers

Shapes and Skyscrapers

Did you know there are shapes of all sorts in skyscrapers? The Chrysler Building has triangular windows, and the Burj Khalifa is built on a Y-shaped...

Winter Blast: A Day of Indigenous Games

Winter Blast: A Day of Indigenous Games

Warm up on a cold winter’s day playing Native games from across the Western Hemisphere. Try your hand at Inuit yo-yo, ring and pin, Hawaiian chess,...