The Met to Host Family Benefit PLAYING GAMES BEYOND THE FRAMES
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For its 26th annual Family Benefit, The Met will host an evening filled with art-making activities, tasty treats, and dancing for kids and their families. The Met Family Benefit: Playing Games Beyond the Frames will include a variety of interactive stations showcasing how people from different cultures and time periods experience play-from sports, to board games, to technology.
To celebrate the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, attendees will get the chance to interact and take photos with Soohorang and Bandabi, the official mascots for PyeongChang 2018.
Activity highlights include crafts stations for making Olympic wreaths and medals; the chance to learn how to play the Egyptian game of passing, called senet, and design a senet board to take home; the opportunity to hear how medieval knights competed in tournaments; and dinner and dancing in The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing.
The event will be hosted by The Met Family Circle Co-Chairs Renata and Claudio Garcia; April and Guy Hardwick; Nancy and Min Huh; Tamara MacMillan; Ann and Matthew Roberts; and Sharon Wee and Tracy Fu.
This event is generously supported by the Julia A. Whitney Foundation and Faye DeWitt.
Proceeds from The Met Family Benefit support the Museum's general operating fund, which makes possible a robust slate of education initiatives.
Tickets are required. Wednesday, February 7, 5:30-8 pm Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street Ticket Information: Adults, $175; Children, $85; Youth, $85*
*For fourth-graders and up only. Includes access to "Club Met," where a special activity for the older children will take place. Space is limited and reservations will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit metmuseum.org/familybenefit.
Call 212-570-3948 or email familybenefit@metmuseum.org.
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