El Museo offers customized virtual and onsite experiences led by highly trained Museum Educators for private groups, companies, tour operators, and organizers. These private tours of our exhibitions and collections are tailored to meet your group’s needs, providing a personalized, in-depth, and interactive experience. Tours can focus on specific themes, galleries, or collection areas. For groups larger than 35, we offer webinar-style programs. Bilingual and Spanish tours are available upon request.
To ensure the health and safety of our visitors and staff, and to improve your experience at the Museum, please review our visitor guidelines.
Scheduling Your Group
To start the booking process, please review our Onsite and Virtual offerings below and complete the corresponding Adult Group Visitor Request Form. Please note that program availability is limited, and submitting a request form does not confirm your reservation. You will receive an automated acknowledgment email, followed by an official confirmation based on availability.
For more information about prices and guidelines, please see our Adult Group Visits FAQ & Guidelines.
Tour requests can be customized. For more information, please email groupvisits@elmuseo.org.
Guided Gallery Visits
Current Exhibitions
August 28, 2025 — Summer 2026
Jangueando:
Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025 showcases approximately 30 works across diverse media—painting, photography, sculpture, and installation—that have recently joined El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection. Organized in thematic clusters, the exhibition builds on the museum’s historical strengths, such as Puerto Rican and Nuyorican portraiture and Latiné photography, and highlights new collecting strategies with a focus on queer artists and artists of Indigenous descent.
The Spanglish title Jangueando, meaning “hanging out with your friends,” celebrates the multiple interpretations of the word from socializing to the act of installing or ‘hanging’ artwork in a gallery setting. From the street to the club, Jangueando celebrates places of gathering and honors the power of coming together through kinship, identity, culture, and creative expression. The exhibition explores themes students encounter in their daily lives and studies, including queer history and identity, the housing crisis, New York’s cultural identity, the role of work and labor, and ancestral traditions that remain meaningful and contemporary among Indigenous nations.
Exhibition Tour Visits
Students will discover how contemporary artists address social issues through powerful explorations of identity, community, and belonging. Through guided discussions and inquiry facilitated by El Museo de Barrio’s museum educators, students will engage with the materials, techniques, and stories of the works of art on view and reflect on their own experiences in community and cultural spaces.
Exhibition Tour + Art-Making Workshops
Following a guided exhibition tour, our collaborative art-making workshops in El Museo del Barrio’s talleres, invite students to create their own responses to el jangueo—as gathering, resistance, and celebration. Using mixed media and storytelling, participants will explore themes of belonging and cultural expression, building meaningful connections between their lives and the powerful works in the exhibition.
Visit us to experience how art brings us together and celebrates the richness of our shared cultures.
Exhibition Tours & Art-Making Workshops will be Available Starting September 18, 2025. For more information on the exhibition, click here.
EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Guided Tour in the galleries includes an inquiry-based discussion.
- Prices Vary
EXHIBITION TOUR & ART-MAKING WORKSHOP
The 90-minute Guided Tour and Art-Making Workshop include an inquiry-based discussion and an art-making activity.
- Prices Vary
September 18, 2025 — January 11, 2026
Coco Fusco:
Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
El Museo del Barrio presents the first major U.S. survey of pioneering Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco (b. 1960, lives in New York). As a renowned artist, Fusco has engaged global audiences through her films, photographs, texts, installations, and performances that interrogates politics, power, representation, and cultural identity.
Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island presents over three decades of Coco Fusco’s work, from her groundbreaking performance Two Undiscovered Amerindians Discover the West (with Guillermo Gómez-Peña) to her explorations of Cuban history and U.S. politics. Blending personal narrative with social critique, Fusco’s multidisciplinary practice confronts race, gender, and imperialism, challenging institutional authority, media, and the politics of visibility, and establishing her as a leading voice in contemporary art.
Exhibition Tour Visits
Students will examine how Fusco uses performance, text, and visual media to expose systems of oppression and cultural misrepresentation. Through guided discussions and inquiry facilitated by El Museo de Barrio’s museum educators, students will examine how the artist’s multidisciplinary practice provokes a dialogue around migration, identity, surveillance, and resistance.
Exhibition Tour + Art-Making Workshops
Following a guided exhibition tour, our collaborative art-making workshops in El Museo del Barrio’s talleres, invite students to create their own collage-based works inspired by Fusco’s strategies of visual storytelling and activism. Using a mix of found images, personal photographs, text, and drawing, students will explore how layering and juxtaposition can serve as tools for critique, self-expression, and political commentary.
Exhibition Tours & Workshops will be available starting October 9th 2025. For more information on the exhibition, click here.
EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Guided Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion.
- Prices Vary.
EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 90-minute Guided Tour and Workshop include an inquiry-based discussion and an art-making activity.
- Prices Vary
Cultural Celebrations
K – 12 & Adults | Winter
Multicultural Connections:
Three Kings Day
Learn about the Taino, African, and European influences embedded throughout the traditions of this festive celebration that has been celebrated by El Museo for more than 40 years. Explore the way in which El Barrio’s community has shaped the celebration of this holiday in New York City. Participants will delve into the stories, music and visual art of the holiday and explore the origin of our fantastic 14-foot puppets and the museum’s parade. The program includes an art making activity.
CULTURAL CELEBRATION WORKSHOP
90-minute program available | Max. 25 participants.
PRICES VARY.
K-12 & Adults | Fall
Honoring our Loved Ones:
Día de Muertos
Immerse yourself in the sensory-rich celebration of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) which honors the memory and legacy of loved ones. Explore the pre-Colombian origins, and the symbolic elements of this tradition celebrated in Mexico, other parts of Latin American and the U.S, through an interactive discussion followed by an age-appropriate art making workshop. The program will also include the exploration of an ofrenda (altar) designed by a contemporary artist on display at the Museum.
CULTURAL CELEBRATION WORKSHOP
90-minute program available | Max. 25 participants.
PRICES VARY.
K – 12 & Adults | Ongoing
Around the Block:
Walking Tours of El Barrio
Led by our Museum Educators, the Around the Block Walking Tour of El Barrio encourages visitors to take in the sights and sounds of the neighborhood. Learn about the legacy of our communities, the icons that once called El Barrio home, and the art that makes the streets come alive. Stops may include community gardens, murals, local businesses, and landmarks. Participants engage in discussions about the ways in which El Museo and the neighborhood have been shaped by the cultural and social practices of the residents of El Barrio and its changing landscape.
AROUND THE BLOCK WALKING TOUR
90-minute program available | Max. 25 participants.
PRICES VARY.