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.
ONSITE (IN-PERSON)
ADULT GROUP VISITS
March 13, 2025 to July 13, 2025
Mestre Didi:
Spiritual Form
Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form is a landmark monographic exhibition exploring the work of the late Afro-Brazilian sculptor, writer, cultural advocate and spiritual leader Mestre Didi (Salvador, 1917-2013). As the first major U.S. museum exhibition of Didi’s work in 25 years, the survey unites over 30 of his sculptures and offers a rare view of his far-reaching spiritual and artistic legacy, and includes works by his artistic peers.
Participants will explore Mestre Didi’s artistic and cultural heritage by examining his dual role as an artist and spiritual leader, understanding how his work preserves and innovates Afro-Brazilian traditions. They will analyze symbolism and materiality by closely observing his use of materials such as wood, beads, leather and shells, interpreting their significance within Afro Brazilian cosmology. They will also investigate his influence on contemporary art both in the Americas and on a global scale, and how his practice was as a forerunner to the canon of modern art and a form of social justice.
Artmaking workshops will focus on developing visual analysis and critical thinking skills by engaging in discussions and interpretive exercises, making connections between art, identity, spirituality and/or social justice.
EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Guided Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion.
- Prices Vary / up to 25 participants.
EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 90-minute program includes an inquiry-based discussion and artmaking workshop.
- Prices Vary / up to 25 participants.
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.
Virtual
Adult Group Visits
Exhibitions
Ongoing
Juan Francisco Elso: Por América
For our Virtual Tours, our Museum Educator will lead participants through the exhibition Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, which investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988). He emerged as part of the Volumen Uno (Volume One) generation of contemporary artists who gained international recognition in the early 1980s. The contextual show places Elso’s work in dynamic dialogue with a multigenerational group of artists active both inside and outside of Cuba, the Caribbean, and throughout the Americas, including Ana Mendieta, Glenn Ligon, Belkis Ayón, and Luis Camnitzer, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
DOMESTICANX
DOMESTICANX brings together a group of intergenerational artists whose practices address the private sphere through works related to healing, spirituality, decoration, and the home. DOMESTICANX expands the artist’s original Chicana and feminist theory through the lens of contemporary Latinx intersectionality. Featured artists include Amalia Mesa-Bains, María Brito, Amarise Carreras, Cielo Félix-Hernández, Joel Gaitan, Misla, and Nitza Tufiño.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry-based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
Raphael Montañez Ortiz:
A Contextual Retrospective
For our Virtual Tours, our Museum Educator will guide participants through Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective, the first large-scale exhibition since 1988 dedicated to the artist, activist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio. The exhibition spans several decades of Ortiz’s production, from the 1950s to the early-2020s, in different media such as film, painting, photography, video installations, documents, and assemblages. Virtual Tours will touch on the themes of identity, activism, decolonization, and representation.
Recommended for Grades 6 and up.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes am inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement, or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour an Workshop includes an inquiry based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
Popular Painters & Other Visionaries
The exhibition examines the contribution of 35 artists working on the margins of modernism and the mainstream art world in the Americas and the Caribbean. Popular visual sources provide the narrative thread of the exhibition, which is divided into thematic sections around labor, daily life, festivities, religion, vernacular architecture, and bodily representations. The artists featured in this exhibition share the common experience of diaspora — whether as African populations in the New World, Latin American and Caribbean people in the United States, or in reference to the displacement of Amerindian populations within their own territories. Virtual tours will feature various themes including cultural traditions and celebrations, landscapes, cityscapes, and daily life, and workshops will include opportunities for art making, including drawing, collage and the use of digital art making tools.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement, or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
En Foco: The New York Puerto Rican Experience, 1973-1974
This exhibition centers on a single portfolio of 79 photographs by founding members of the Bronx-based collective, Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Roger Cabán, and Felipe Dante, who each focus on the themes of Education, Small Business, and Labor. The images offer a rich visual testament of New York’s Puerto Rican population, with community members photographing their own lived reality. Donated to El Museo del Barrio by En Foco in 1976, this exhibition marks the first time the portfolio is exhibited in full since 1979. In addition to the complete selection of photographs, the show is supplemented with posters, exhibition catalogues, and other ephemera related to En Foco’s historical engagement with El Museo del Barrio.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement, or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry-based discussion and art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
Taller Boricua:
A Political Print Shop in New York
In celebration of Taller Boricua’s 50th anniversary, this is the first monograph exhibition in three decades about the East Harlem-based Nuyorican collective workshop and alternative space. Best known for its cultural empowerment and political activism, the organization commonly known as ‘The Puerto Rican Workshop,’ which began as a printmaking studio, produced and circulated hundreds of prints by artists. The prints, produced mainly in the 1970s, centered on issues of Puerto Rican independence, workers’ rights, and anti-imperialism both locally and in the Caribbean and Latin America, issues that remain relevant today. Virtual tours and workshops will focus on themes of social justice, activism, Nuyorican culture and identity, including the collective’s interest in their Taino heritage.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement, or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry-based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Ongoing
ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21
ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico, representing a diversity of generations, genders, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. The exhibition utilizes an intersectional approach to Latinx identity. The phrase Estamos Bien (We Are Good) resonates with the present-day moment in the United States. With many of the works created by artists in the past two years, the exhibition offers students an opportunity to examine several of the current concerns of Latinx communities including class and racial dynamics, displacement and gentrification, climate change, and the impact of the global pandemic.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
The 60-minute Virtual Tour includes an inquiry-based discussion and a sketching, movement, or writing activity.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR & WORKSHOP
The 75-minute Tour and Workshop includes an inquiry based discussion and an art making activity.
PRICES VARY.
Cultural Celebrations
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 a virtual, 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 in El Museo’s galleries.
VIRTUAL CULTURAL CELEBRATION WORKSHOP
75-minute virtual visit available | Max. 35 participants.
PRICES VARY.
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. Virtually 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, now in its 44th year. Virtual workshops include an art making activity.
VIRTUAL CULTURAL CELEBRATION WORKSHOP
75-minute virtual visit available | Max. 35 participants.
PRICES VARY.
K – 12 & Adults | Ongoing
Around the Block:
Walking Tours of El Barrio
Take in the sights, sounds and history of our neighborhood on this walking tour! Learn about the legacy of our communities, the icons that once called El Barrio home, and the art that makes the streets come alive. Virtual ‘stops’ may include community gardens, murals, local businesses and landmarks.
VIRTUAL AROUND THE BLOCK WALKING TOUR
75-minute virtual visit available | Max. 35 participants.
PRICES VARY.