Grab your friends and take over The Met for the night! Drop in for teen-only activities across the Museum, including art making, performances, music, and more. Discover what you can also do at over 60 NYC cultural and community organizations.

At MOCA’s activity station, get inspired by Ed Young’s Bright Worlds: Gesture and Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children, MOCA’s  special exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking artist and storyteller Ed Young (1931–2023). For over six decades, Young transformed children’s literature through expressive collage, bold color, and deeply felt stories—many drawn from Chinese folktales and his own life experiences. Explore how personal memories and folktales you grew up with can become powerful visual stories by creating your own collage inspired by Ed Young’s inventive techniques and emotional use of gesture, composition, and color. Then, put your imagination to the test with an interactive storytelling game. Roll the dice to randomly generate settings, characters, and plot twists. Weave them into a short story or visual narrative using characters from Ed Young’s books or creations entirely your own. 

Please note: this event is being hosted at The Met Fifth Avenue located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.

Doors open at 4 pm. Teens Take The Met! is free and open to all teens 13+ with a middle or high school ID. Just show up or RSVP now to get a free ticket. If you’re a chaperone who’d like to come with a group of 10 or more teens, please email teenprograms@metmuseum.org for instructions.

RSVP HERE! 

Teens Take The Met! is a Teen Night co-organized with over 60 community partners.

92NY; Aalokam; ALT Alliance, Inc.; The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards; Art in the Park Inc.; Art Start; The Art Students League; Artists For Humanity; ArtsConnection; Bard High School Early College (Manhattan); Belongó; Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn Public Library; The Bronx Museum; Building Beats; Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education; The Center for Anti-Violence Education; Center for Architecture; Center for Book Arts; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Dedalus Foundation; Everyday Democracy; The Diller-Quaile School of Music; The Door; Girls for Gender Equity; Guggenheim Teen Circle; High Line; Hill Art Foundation; Impact Repertory Theatre; Intrepid Museum; JAZZ HOUSE NYC; The Jewish Museum; LaGuardia Community College; Listening is Fundamental; Manhattan Theatre Club; Martha Graham Young Artists Program; The Morgan Library & Museum; Museum at Eldridge Street; Museum of Chinese in America; New Victory Theater; New York Botanical Garden; New York Hall Of Science; The New York Historical; The New York Public Library; The Noguchi Museum; NYC All City High School Chorus; NYC Department of Youth & Community Development; NYC Salt; Planned Parenthood of Greater New York; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Snug Harbor; STEM From Dance; Studio Museum in Harlem; Susan E. Wagner High School Marching Band; Swiss Institute; TADA! Youth Theater; Titan Theatre Company; University Settlement; UrbanGlass; Wave Hill; Whitney Museum of American Art; Writopia Lab; YWCA NYC Girls Initiatives.

Teens Take The Met! is made possible by the Gray Foundation. Bus transportation for Teens Take The Met! is supported by Council Member Gail Brewer.

This event will be photographed, filmed, and/or recorded. By your presence at the event, you consent to the photography, filming, and use of your image and/or voice.

Stop by the welcome table in Diane W. Burke Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (Ground Floor), to request an assistive listening device, an American Sign Language interpreter, a sighted guide, and a large-print or Braille schedule of events, or to learn more about access accommodations, programs, and resources at The Met. You can also access The Met’s sensory-friendly resources online and take a break in the quiet galleries.

A schedule of events will be available in English and Spanish.

See visitor guidelines here.