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As a learning organization, we use an iterative model to create a framework for collaboration, resources, platforms and tools that are responsive to the needs of families and communities, positioning them as drivers of change. Outcomes and learnings are shared with our institutional partners through a series of trainings for professionals. Over the past two decades, we have collaborated with families, schools and museums to redistribute cultural resources, increase cultural participation, build community and address cultural equity.
As a learning organization, we use an iterative model to create a framework for collaboration, resources, platforms and tools that are responsive to the needs of families and communities, positioning them as drivers of change. Outcomes and learnings are shared with our institutional partners through a series of trainings for professionals. Over the past 18 years, we have collaborated with families, schools and museums to redistribute cultural resources, increase cultural participation, build community and address cultural equity. Cool Culture’s many program models are outlined below.
The program provides 50,000 families in 450 Early Childhood Centers and Title 1 Department of Education schools with a Cool Culture Family Pass that offers families a year of unlimited, free admission for up to five people to our 90 New York City cultural institution partners.
Removing barriers for 50,000 families with children in pre-K to first grade to get free access to 90+ museums & cultural institutions.
Connecting museums & communities. Year-round family events co-designed with museum staff and educators help bring new audiences into cultural institutions, and build and strengthen new networks.
Our diverse corps of educators from 450+ schools and early childhood centers ignite family interest in and prepare them for museum visits.
Providing multilingual print and digital resources to showcase activities within our network and offer strategies for dynamic cultural engagement.
Creates and implements a series of seminars that guide the next generation of museum professionals to develop participatory programming. Participants also build skills to solicit feedback from historically marginalized families about their exhibitions and programming, and to advocate for change in their institutions.
Partnerships with museum partners to ideate and co-create spaces where our families and educators develop agency in exploring objects in their home, classroom, and community and reassess what is considered and valued as art.
Partnerships with museum partners to ideate and co-create spaces where our families and educators develop agency in exploring objects in their home, classroom, and community and reassess what is considered and valued as art.
Cool Culture partners with families, educators, cultural institutions, volunteers, and donors. We invite you to get involved!
Cool Culture partners with families, educators, cultural institutions, volunteers, and donors. We invite you to get involved!
Make a donation to continue the necessary work and become a part of a movement to create more equitable communities.
Make a donation to continue the necessary work and become a part of a movement to create more equitable communities.
Volunteer at our Family Festivals, Cool Pop Ups, and other in-person events, or offer virtual art-making sessions.
Volunteer at our Family Festivals, Cool Pop Ups, and other in-person events, or offer virtual art-making sessions.
Tell your school or child care center about us! Contact your local elected representatives to support our work.
Tell your school or child care center about us! Contact your local elected representatives to support our work.
Quarterly email for the entire Cool Culture
community with news on programs, partners,
and events.
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Quarterly email for the entire Cool Culture community with news on programs, partners, and events.
* All fields need to be filled out to submit
Monthly email for Cool Culture families with spotlights
on cultural institution partners and updates on museum
programs.
* All fields need to be filled out to submit
Monthly email for Cool Culture families with spotlights on cultural institution partners and updates on museum programs.
* All fields need to be filled out to submit
To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.
To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.