Celebrate Día de los Muertos and Guatemala’s Día de los Santos with a day of art, music, performances, and family fun!
Make colorful kites and sugar skull masks, enjoy puppetry and dance, and explore our rooftop marketplace with local artists, delicious food, and music by DJ Farbeon. Visit our community ofrenda to leave an offering and celebrate the lives of loved ones who have passed.
Curated by artist and educator Mincho Vega.
Included with Museum admission. General admission is $15; children under 1 visit free.
Shop arts and crafts from local Latinx artists, and grab a bite from Taqueria El Patron Mexican Grill and La Guadalupana Bakery. Enjoy music by DJ Farbeon as he brings together sounds from Latin and soul to funk, house, and hip-hop.
Visit our community ofrenda, designed by Brooklyn-based artists Johann and Adalhi Armendáriz Mittnacht and Mincho Vega. Leave an offering and share in remembering, learning about, and celebrating the lives of loved ones who have passed.
Discover barriletes, a Guatemalan kite-making tradition, with Mayan artist Ixmucane Artisan. Use colorful tissue paper, bamboo, and other materials to craft your own kite.
Sing, dance, and explore Guatemalan traditions through a Spanish-language puppet show about Día de los Santos with Karina Onofre.
Experience Mexica ceremonial dance and song with Cetiliztli Nauhcampa, then come together to form a community circle.
Celebrate an iconic symbol of Día de los Muertos with teaching artist Natalie Del Villar. Create a colorful sugar skull mask to take home.
Enjoy a performance by Àṣẹ Dance Theatre Collective, an ensemble specializing in dance and music theater from the African Diaspora.
Visit Nature’s Engineers for Harness the Wind, where kids can build and test wind turbine blades using different shapes, angles, and materials.
Make a day of it with hands-on play throughout the Museum!
BCM is open for play! Come explore some of our most-loved exhibits, including toddler-favorite Totally Tots, the miniature shops of World Brooklyn, our NEST kids’ climber, and more.
After you’ve played, join a guided art workshop in our ColorLab family art studio (10:15 am – 12:15 pm and 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm) or explore hands-on STEM projects in our Nature’s Engineers makerspace (10:30 am – 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm).
Brooklyn Children’s Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am–5 pm. Book your visit today!
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