Fable & Lark: Storied Adventures

29/08/2024

This fall, we’re offering something new. Partly a scavenger hunt, somewhat a mystery. Definitely an adventure. Completely interactive. Teamwork is a must. Humor is essential. This fall, we’re offering Tale/Spin Museum Adventures, where familiar stories are spun up and mixed around. Using clues, details, and your own smarts, you’ll figure out what’s going on…because these are YOUR adventures, and what happens is largely up to you. Prepare to set sail for the first one this October…

24/08/2024

Such a good time with the loveliest guest on our “Staged” museum theater tour. Here, he demonstrates one of the (apparently) many ways you can use one of our specially designed pencils. 🙂

19/08/2024

Did you know that in the Met’s American Wing Courtyard there’s a group of marble statues portraying larger-than-life women from literature and history? And can you spy perhaps one of the next great female leaders peeping at her history from the steps? It’s a stop on our “Stages” theater tour, but it’s also a great place to wander and contemplate on your own.

13/08/2024

The stories tour goers tell on our tours are as—if not more important than—the stories we tell on the tour itself. And isn’t that kind of the point? Had the absolute privilege of sharing an afternoon with the visitors on that tour, and like the feeling you have at the end of all great stories, we’re infinitely the richer for it.

08/08/2024

When you’re not only admiring the art, but eyeballing it to see if you’d fit inside.

02/08/2024

Sometimes you call Uber…and sometimes Uber calls you! Loved taking this Uber-great group from Uber on our “Art of Stories” museum tour!

29/07/2024

We train our tour guides young and give them teeny-tiny flags to guide visitors.
JK. Small wizard in search of magic on our Magical Arts tour. Come for a spell!

20/07/2024

On our “Quest Control” interactive museum tour, you search for ancient heroes and gods, seek out friends and avoid foes, commune with Hercules and Perseus, go on numerous quests, and solve perplexing clues.
Also, the museum is really, really air-conditioned. Just saying.

11/07/2024

Have you read “The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler?” If you love—or want to know more about—two kids who run away and camp out at the Met, join us for “Angels and Adventurers,” for a mixed-up museum adventure!

04/07/2024

Alliances were formed, dragons were dispatched, magic carpets were ridden, Orcs were encountered. (Some were literal; some, metaphorical. But epic fantasy definitely reigned. Pick your posse and pad on over for “Crown & Prophet,” our epic fantasy-themed museum tour!

24/06/2024

Do you love the written word so much that you carry around a giant quill to write when inspiration strikes—or perhaps to use as a bookmark? If so, you might have bookitis, a harmless condition that renders the bearer helpless in the face of stories of all kinds. But fear not! Proximity to the written word will help—and you might enjoy our most bookish museum tour yet: “The Art of Stories.”

18/06/2024

Crouching lion, hidden child.

13/06/2024

Many moons ago, a young woman told a story, over many nights and many months. In doing so, she became part of one of the most legendary stories in the world, for its structure, its content, and its message: Storytelling is so important…it can literally save your life. Come join us for our newest museum tour: “The Art of Stories.”

08/06/2024

Third time’s the charm! (So were the first and second times, honestly.) These lovely ladies have taken three of our museum tours, and we loved having them on all of them. Here, we’re at the end of our newish “Art of Stories” tour, hanging out with Perseus. Come join us!

03/06/2024

When your tour group bonds.

26/05/2024

When you momentarily forget you’re actually giving a tour because you are having such a lovely time with your lovely tourgoers talking about scary things. (“Ghost Stories” evening tour; Met Museum.)

21/05/2024

Thank you, Kayak, for featuring us (and our museum tours inspired by great stories) in your first-ever New York City travel guide!

There are endless things to do in New York City, from visiting world-class museums and art galleries to exploring the city's diverse neighborhoods, dining at some of the best restaurants in the world, and taking in breathtaking views from atop towering skyscrapers.

16/05/2024

Thank you to the Getaway Mavens for including both our “Magical Arts” and “Art of Stories” museum tours in your UES roundup!

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11/05/2024

Studies show that getting “Staged” with your loved ones increases your enjoyment of theater. (Full disclosure: No study actually says that. But if you love theater; you might well enjoy our “Staged” museum tour.)

08/05/2024

Two lovely ladies on our new “Art of Stories” museum tour. Do you love myths and epic fantasy, quests and fairy tales and folk tales? If so, we’d love for you to join us as we explore the story…of stories.

02/05/2024

What better way to launch our new “Art of Stories” tour than with this fabulous group of women who have been part of the same book club for more than 20 years! If you love myths and epic quests, fairy tales and tales of derring do, we think you’ll enjoy this tour: it’s the story…of stories. Let’s book!

29/04/2024

Epic friendships call for an epic fantasy adventure.
If you like quests and dragons and hobbits and jousts and all things high and low fantasy, we think you might enjoy “Crown & Prophet,” our epic-fantasy tour in the Met. Round up your fellowship!

24/04/2024

Calling all book lovers! Our newest museum tour in the Met, “The Art of Stories,” is about myths and fairytales, epic quests and Arabian nights, children’s books and folklore, “The Princess Bride” and “Ocean’s 8.” And more! It’s…the story of stories themselves.
Come join us—let’s book!

12/04/2024

And ye, verily, they survived ice-cold chills (possibly museum air conditioning, but let’s go with a ghost) to emerge, unscathed, amidst the mummies on our “Ghost Stories” tour.
Come get ghosted!

06/04/2024

Nothing spookier than three boys sitting absolutely quietly.
(“Ghost Stories” interactive museum tour; waiting for a ghost; Met Museum.)

29/03/2024

So many surreal layers here.

21/03/2024

When you’re the scribe for a three-generation group of demigods in training, you get to sit on the floor.
“Quest Control” interactive museum tour. Think gods, demigods, heroes, obstacles, coin throwing in fountains, and emerging triumphant at the end of a quest.

09/03/2024

When you’ve just lopped off Medusa’s head, you’re allowed to show off a little.

22/02/2024

Three generations. Six lovely ladies.
Demigod personas were created, quests were quested, allegiances were forged, obstacles were surmounted. All in all, an epic “Quest Control” interactive museum tour. ⚔️🔱⚡️

18/02/2024

Do you love to read so much that you will stop and read literally wherever you are—including in the trunk of a hollowed-out tree? Then check out our new “Art of Stories” museum tour, launching this April!