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tell me your night, I'll build it from the listingsJune 2026
← agendaGarden Festival: Wild Imaginations
Sat Jun 6 · 10am · The Met Cloisters · Free with Museum admission; admission is pay what you wish for New York state residents, and free for children 12 and under with an adult, and a care partner accompanying a visitor with a disability.
Let your imagination run wild in The Met Cloisters gardens! Enjoy tours, performances, art making, and more as you explore the gardens and the creatures who call them home. From buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies to sly foxes and creeping garden critters, discover how the living world has long inspired extraordinary hybrid beings: part animal, part human, part plant. For garden enthusiasts and curious visitors of all ages. Select activities offered in both Spanish and English.
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Met Signs—Teens!
Sun Jun 7 · 3:30pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free.
For teens who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. Hang out with other D/deaf and hard of hearing teens at this social gathering and hands-on art-making experience. Learn about The Met's European Paintings galleries with a Deaf educator, then make a collage inspired by artwork on view.
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Villa Albertine Joins the Museum Mile Festival
Tue Jun 9 · 5pm · Villa Albertine · Free admission; 15% discount on purchases
Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, is delighted to participate in its first Museum Mile Festival. To celebrate, its bookstore, Albertine, will be open to the...
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Date Night—Pride
Fri Jun 12 · 5pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free with Museum admission; beverages available for purchase.
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month at The Met! Join us for an evening of art, music, and community. Enjoy two-for-one drinks, strike a pose at a pop-up photo lounge, dance to live music, make art or participate in performances, join a gallery talk, add your voice to a collaborative mural, and more. Plus, connect with local LGBTQIA+ organizations across New York City.
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Met Expert Talks en español—El mundo sublime de Rafael
Sat Jun 13 · 11am · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free with Museum admission.
Acompañe a expertos del Museo, como curadores, conservadores, científicos y académicos, para profundizar en una selección de objetos exhibidos en las salas. Conozca nuevas perspectivas e historias nunca contadas por los expertos de The Met y observe más en detalle las obras de arte. Tendrá también la oportunidad de hacer preguntas. Observe más de cerca Raphael: Sublime Poetry, la primera exposición integral sobre Raphael en los Estados Unidos, que reúne más de 170 de las mayores obras maestras del artista. Escuche mientras la curadora Carmen C. Bambach explora la trayectoria de la vida y carrera de Rafael, desde sus orígenes en Urbino hasta su ascenso en Florence, donde comenzó a destacarse como igual de Leonardo da Vinci y Michelangelo, y hasta su última y prolífica década en la corte papal de Roma.
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Artists on Artworks—Step Afrika!
Tue Jun 16 · 3pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free with Museum admission.
See The Met collection through artists' eyes. Join C. Brian Williams, founder of Step Afrika!, as he offers insight into the company's creative work and its contributions to the Musical Bodies exhibition. Listen as Williams traces the history and cultural significance of stepping, including its roots in the traditions of African American fraternities and sororities, and reflects on Step Afrika!'s contribution to the Bodies in Motion video installation within the exhibition. Discover how stepping fits within broader ideas of rhythm, movement, and the body as an instrument explored across the exhibition.
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Workshop: Moche-Inspired Pottery with The Met Cloisters and Uptown Clay
Sat Jun 20 · 10am · The Met Cloisters and Uptown Clay · $250
Create a Moche-inspired creature vessel based on artworks in Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas. Start out at The Met Cloisters for a tour of the exhibition, then walk as a group to Uptown Clay, where ceramics artist Vanesa Cabezas will lead the studio workshop. All participants will create their own vessel and fire their work in a kiln to be picked up at a later date.
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Fables and Tales at The Met—Celebrating Jubilee Day!
Sun Jun 21 · 2pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free; Museum admission is not required.
Sing, dance, listen, and play—it's time for Fables and Tales! This month, join us as we learn about Jubilee Day and explore themes of joy, resilience, and community. Fables and Tales is recommended for families with children ages 18 months to 6 years.
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Making History
Sun Jun 28 · 2pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free with Museum admission.
Join us for a series of lectures exploring the evolution of history painting. In this talk, art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz delves into how contemporary artists from Gerhard Richter to Kent Monkman and Kerry James Marshall have reclaimed the past, reshaping our understanding of history and responding to our world today.
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Short Films for Short Nights—Program One: Me and You
Fri Jul 10 · 6pm · The Met Fifth Avenue · Free with Museum admission.
In July, The Met's Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art's annual three-part series Short Films for Short Nights returns with dozens of rare short films produced between 1903 and 1973. This year's theme explores "faces in the crowd." Program One, Me and You, looks at the tradition of portraiture through individual depictions, from psychological interiors to cameras turned on other subjects.
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