Café (Ground Floor)
Operated by Italian restaurant and caterer Tarallucci e Vino, the cafe offers a seasonal menu featuring Italian pastries, espresso, salads, soups, and panini, as well as a large selection of wines by the glass.
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Monday
Closed Tuesdays
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Tuesdays
Closed Thanksgiving and Dec. 25
Timed-entry tickets required
About
Cooper Hewitt is the nation’s only museum dedicated to historic and contemporary design, with a collection of over 210,000 design objects spanning thirty centuries. Located in the landmark Andrew Carnegie mansion and boasting a beautiful public garden, Cooper Hewitt makes design come alive with unique temporary exhibitions and installations of the permanent collection.
Highlights
Interactive galleries where visitors explore the collection digitally and engage in the design process; an Immersion Room where visitors can discover Cooper Hewitt’s wallcoverings as they were intended to be viewed.
Dining
Getting Here
Subway Station: 86th Street on 4/5/6 trains
Bus: Fifth and Madison Avenue buses
Reserved parking near the museum can be purchased in advance through ParkWhiz.
Note: ParkWhiz is a third-party vendor (ParkWhiz Privacy Policy).
Current Exhibitions
- Designing Peace
- Duro Olowu Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
- Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum
- Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature
- Foreign Exchange: 18th-Century Design on the Move
- Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics
- Nature by Design: Botanical Expressions
- Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons
- Immersion Room