The museum's former library space on the ground floor — most often used for the Met's beloved story time — is now the 81st Street Studio, a hands-on learning space for kids.

There are no straight paths or dead ends at the 81st Street Studio, a new children’s area that opened its doors last week at The Met Fifth Avenue by KOKO Architecture + Design, a New York firm ...

The 3-to-11-year-old crowd can sample music, rest on scented pillows, make digital woodblock prints and study Met museum objects at this new drop-in center. Heidi Holder, chair of education at the ...

In the future, Met staffers will lead storytelling events in the studio. “This space is for New York City,” Heidi Holder, the Met’s chair of education, tells Hyperallergic.