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The 81st Street Studio, a sprawling 3,500-square-foot space in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A interactive screen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio, a sprawling 3,500-square-foot space and interactive space for children 3 to 11, in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A station investigating the properties of light at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A detail of the music station’s giant marimba at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio, in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

Heidi Holder, chair of education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, surrounded by touchable panels of different varieties of wood in the museum’s new 81st Street Studio in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A wall of castanets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio, in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio, which has dappled lighting, soft upholstery and a kid-size tunnel at the right, in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

A light table for preschool children which invites them to place plastic pieces on its surface and turn dials to change the illumination’s hue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 81st Street Studio in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. 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. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

Rendering of 81st Street Studio, designed by KOKO Architecture + Design. Image courtesy of Brick Visual