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Brooklyn Museum Rolls Out Mobile Arts Program
May 27, 2025, 12:16.52 am ET

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Photo: Argenis Apolinario

The Brooklyn Museum has officially launched Museum on Wheels, a mobile arts initiative bringing hands-on cultural experiences directly to neighborhoods across Brooklyn. Housed in a custom-designed, ADA-compliant Airstream trailer wrapped in artwork by Christopher Myers, the traveling museum is designed to foster creativity, accessibility, and intergenerational learning beyond the museum’s walls.

Developed in collaboration with over a dozen community and arts organizations—including El Puente, Brownsville Heritage House, The Laundromat Project, and NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, Museum on Wheels offers free workshops led by local teaching artists, interactive activities like storytelling and art-making, and games such as hopscotch and dominoes. The initiative also introduces visitors to career pathways in the arts and cultural sector, all while celebrating the unique cultures and languages of each neighborhood it visits.

The program is the flagship of the museum’s new Community Engagement department and builds on its 200-year legacy of arts education. Following a pilot debut in fall 2024, Museum on Wheels rolls out formally in spring 2025 with stops scheduled in neighborhoods including Brownsville, East New York, Fort Greene, Coney Island, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg. Programming has been shaped through local listening sessions to reflect community interests and specific needs.

As Anne Pasternak, Director of the Brooklyn Museum, puts it: “With Museum on Wheels, the Brooklyn Museum reaffirms its role as a cultural anchor and creative collaborator—meeting Brooklynites where they are and building something beautiful together.”

The full schedule of stops and programming is available through the Brooklyn Museum’s website and newsletters.


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