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Anytime Activities

DIY-style resources and self-led activities from Archtober partners that can be done at your leisure. Check out kid-friendly lessons, printables, videos, exhibition guides, and more

Architecture at Home

Center for Architecture

Architecture at Home - ABC’s of Architecture: Illustrated Building Parts

Center for Architecture

Architecture at Home - Digital Activity: Architectural Scavenger Hunt!

Center for Architecture

Architecture at Home - Drawing Activity: Looking Outside My Window

Center for Architecture

Audio Tour of Little Island

Museum at Eldridge Street

Cherry Esplanade Walk

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Collections Online Portal – Architectural Element Highlights

South Street Seaport Museum

Design It Yourself: Mini Exhibit

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design it Yourself: Design a Prototype for a User

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design it Yourself: Design a Streetscape

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Online Exhibition

Drawing from Life: A Look at the Work of Botanical Artist Maud H. Purdy

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Dynamic National Archive of Women in American Architecture

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

Gardening How-To Articles

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Great Crashes of Wall Street Virtual Tour

Green-Wood Cemtery Tree Finder

Green-Wood Cemetery

Guggenheim Building Activity Sheet

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Inside Schermerhorn Row: A Virtual Tour of the Seaport Museum’s Landmark Buildings

South Street Seaport Museum

Inside Thompson Warehouse: A 19th Century Landmark, Revealed

South Street Seaport Museum

Little Island Audio Tour

Look Closely: Discover History Through Photographs

Museum at Eldridge Street

Online Exhibition

Map - Look Here! Marine Park

Hendrick I. Lott House

Map - Virtual Village: Explore and Save #SouthOfUnionSquare

Village Preservation

Map - Women’s Suffrage History

Village Preservation

Maps - Urban Archive/Village Preservation Tours

Village Preservation

Mind’s Eye: A Sensory Guide to the Guggenheim New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Museum at Eldridge Street Coloring Pages

Museum at Eldridge Street

My New York: Changing Everyday

Museum at Eldridge Street

NYBG Lecture Library

New York Botanical Garden

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: Clinton Hill & Fort Greene

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: Harlem

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: Long Island City

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: NoMad & Flatiron

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: Soho & Tribeca

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: South Bronx

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: Southwest Brooklyn

NYCxDESIGN Self-Guided Journey: St. George

New York From Home

Museum of the City of New York

New York Responds: The First Six Months

Museum of the City of New York

Online Exhibition - African American Design

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Online Exhibition - Activist New York

Museum of the City of New York

Online Exhibition - America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York

Online Exhibition - Center for Architecture Lab: Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD)

Center for Architecture

Online Exhibition

Online Exhibition - Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture

Center for Architecture

Online Exhibition - Eileen Gray

Bard Graduate Center

Online Exhibition - Miracle on Fourth Street: 85 Years As a Museum

Historic House Trust

Online Exhibition - Single-Story Project

Center for Architecture

Online Exhibition - The Global Phenomenon of Multifaith Worship Spaces

Center for Architecture

Online Exhibition - The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811-Now

Museum of the City of New York

Online Exhibition - Topiary Tango

Center for Architecture

Pioneering Women of American Archiecture

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

Podcast - New Angle: Voice

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

Podcast - Queens Memory Project

Queens Public Library

Reimagining Blackness and Architecture

Museum of Modern Art

Seaport Architecture Gems

South Street Seaport Museum

Seaport Museum x Urban Archive Virtual Guided Walking Tours

South Street Seaport Museum

Sketch with Jeff

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Art & Architecture of Park Avenue from Lever to Grand Central

The Commons - The Heart of New York City

The Glass House: Texture and Transparency

The Glass House

The Green-Wood Phenology Project

Green-Wood Cemetery

The Merchant's House Museum Virtual Tour

Historic House Trust

The Oral History Collection

Weeksville Heritage Center

The Writer and the Wrecking Ball

South Street Seaport Museum

Online Exhibition

Virtual Tour - Hendrick I. Lott House

Hendrick I. Lott House

Virtual Tour: The Architecture & History of Japan House

Museum of Modern Art

Virtual Views: New York, Open City

Museum of Modern Art

Virtual Views: Sculpture Garden

Museum of Modern Art

Visualize NYC 2021

Center for Architecture

What Makes New York New York

Museum of the City of New York