Just a regular Friday morning, chillin’ with some dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History on a Museum Hack tour. But if you want a tour guide that points out the - ahem - cheekier aspects of classical Greek sculptures or juicy gossip behind that oil painting, then you’ll feel right at home. ![]() In a nutshell: if you want to wander in silence by yourself and/or want a tour led by the teacher from Charlie Brown (wah wah), then this isn’t the tour for you. (But as they say, if she’s cool, then bring her too!). With names like “Un-Highlights,” “Badass Bitches,” and “The Completely Unofficial & Definitely Unlicensed Boy Wizard Tour,” you can tell right off the bat that these aren’t your grandmother’s tours. Gray’s hobby ultimately turned into a full-fledged business, as it soon became apparent that there was a lot of interest in these kinds of unconventional, renegade tours. After his date gave him a personal tour - emphasizing pieces she was passionate about instead of the glitzier, more famous ones - he was inspired to return to the museum and learn more, eventually giving similar talks to friends. Museum Hack is the brainchild of Nick Gray, who founded the company in 2013 to solve “museum apathy.” Gray himself became smitten with museums as a result of a romantic date at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. And it was the best time I’ve had in a museum in years. In an effort to get out of my cocktail bar comfort zone and into more of New York City’s cultural institutions, I signed up for their “Un-Highlights” tour of the American Museum of Natural History, not knowing what to expect. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History to smaller institutions like the New York Transit Museum and the Tenement Museum, you could spend a whole week in the city just museum hopping from one place to the next and not get bored.īut museum fatigue is a bonafide problem. (You know, when your feet start to ache after standing in front of sculptures for a few hours and your brain goes, “Not another painting that a three-year-old could draw.”) And in mammoth-sized museums like the Met, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure about what’s worth seeing.Įnter Museum Hack. New York City has no dearth of incredible museums. Opinions are always my own and I’ll never promote something I don’t use or believe in. ![]() Some posts on this site contain affiliate links, meaning if you book or buy something through one of these links, I may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you!).
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