American Folk Art Museum

Museum gift shop makes merchandise available to the public including hand-made items artistic reproductions and publications that reflect the mission and vision of the museum. The shop did suffer a decline in sales due to the covid-19 global pandemic. Nevertheless the museum chose to maintain full staffing throughout the covid-19 pandemic and has increased its efforts in promoting online sales.

Education programs that benefit pre-k through 12th grade students with single class visits; museum-school partnerships; teen docent programs and summer camp programs; monthly family programs hands on workshops for adults weekly music events programs for seniors with alzheimers disease tours for blind and vistors with low vision a year-long paid internship for laguardia community college students professional development workshops for nyc teachers and open houses for teachers and school administrators; an educational library and study center for the benefit of scholars and researchers and the general public by appointment; and adult programs that serve life-long learners with a robust program of lectures films docent tours symposia and special events. In-person programs were curtailed in mid-march 2020 due to the covid-19 global pandemic;as a result many programs were moved to virtual platforms others were postponed or cancelled.

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