The Studio Museum in Harlem

The Museum provides learning opportunities for visitors of all ages. Experienced educators work with both children and adults at all developmental and cognitive levels.

Guided tours are available for all exhibitions to ensure that individuals with a range of abilities can experience the Museum. Tours tailored to visitors with physical or developmental challenges can also be arranged. Accommodations can be made for visitors in wheelchairs or with limited mobility.

When scheduling a school visit to the Studio Museum, educators are asked to notify the Education Department about the learning or physical needs of their students.

Reservations are now being accepted for guided tours for the Spring 2012 exhibition season starting April 4th, 2012.

Click here to schedule a group tour.

Please call 212-864-4500 x230 for more information about education programs or tours.

RESERVATION PROCESS
1. Complete this online tour registration form. Please note: form submissions are requests, not confirmations.
2. An education staff member will be in contact about availability of requested dates. If dates requested are available, our staff will send an invoice via email to your school or organizations contact person.
3. Send payment to Studio Museum. Upon receipt of payment, you will receive a confirmation via email in one of the following forms: A PDF receipt for credit cards, or an invoice marked paid for checks.
*Payment receipts must be printed and presented upon entrance at the museum.

GUIDED TOURS
A Museum Educator, available to groups of no less than 10 and no more than 30 people, leads this one - hour tour and engages visitors in dialogue about ideas raised by works on view. School groups must have one chaperone for every ten students. Chaperones are required and therefore not charged. Guided tours must be scheduled at least 3 weeks in advance.

Students K-12   $4 per person
College Students, Seniors  $8 per person
Adults    $11 per person

*Please note that there is a $50 minimum for all guided tours.

GUIDED TOURS AND WORKSHOPS
This one hour and thirty minute program combines a guided tour with a hands-on workshop, encouraging students to translate what they have learned and discussed into their own works of art.

Students K-12 (only)   $7.50 per person

*Please note that there is a $75 minimum for all guided tours + workshops

CANCELLATIONS
Please note that there is a $50 fee (guided tours) or $75 fee (guided tour + workshops) for tours canceled less than 48 hours before the scheduled tour time. There is no refund for no-shows. Please email Tours@StudioMuseum.org or leave a message at (212) 864-4500 x230 if there is a cancellation. Please be prompt!  Groups more than 35 minutes late will forfeit their time slot and not receive a tour.

PAYMENT
The Museum does not accept cash payments. Tours must be paid with either check, credit card or purchase order at least one week before the scheduled date. Please make your check payable to The Studio Museum in Harlem.  Please mail checks to the Studio Museum in Harlem Attn: “Group Tours.” Reimbursements are not given if there are fewer people in your group than initially scheduled.

A limited number of fee waivers are available for guided tours each season for New York Title I schools. Educators must submit a tour request on official school letterhead as well as complete the tour request on line. Unfortunately, only a limited number of fee waivers can be accommodated per season. Fee waivers may be mailed or emailed to the Education Department.

LUNCH/PARKING
SMH does not currently have a lunch facility and lunch may not be eaten in the Museum. However there are several nearby restaurants on Lenox Avenue and on 125th Street. Buses may drop off and pick up passengers, but may not park in front of the Museum or in the city bus stop on 125th Street.  Public parking is available on 126th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.