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• Capacity is limited and demand is high. Please only book a program if you are committed to participating (i.e. Do not book multiple time slots to hold as options for only one class).
• These programs are for school classes and groups, not individual students or families.
• To begin your booking, select a date and time slot using the calendar on this page. You will select your program on the following page.
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Museum Programming

Get the scoop on upcoming Jackie Robinson Museum virtual programs for all ages. With Museum staff and special guests, explore Robinson’s remarkable life and the relevance of his legacy today through interactive online experiences.

Grades 2-8 | 60 min

Explore Jack Roosevelt Robinson’s legacy of fighting for equality, both on and off the baseball field. … Learn More 

Jackie's Legacy, Your Leadership

Grades 2-5 | 60 min

What makes a leader? Get inspired by Robinson’s legacy of courage, discipline, and integrity and set your own leadership goals. … Learn More 

From the Robinson Archives

Looking to be inspired? Listen in as celebrities, athletes, activists, and thought leaders across various industries share their secrets to success and the importance of collective social responsibility from the Jackie Robinson Museum (JRM) archive. Explore this selection of private, recorded events while experiencing the vision and spirit of future programming at JRM.

Banking and Business: How Jackie Robinson Challenged Economic Inequality

All Educators | 4-4:45pm

Join us to explore Robinson’s belief in economic empowerment as central to his fight for first-class citizenship for African Americans. … Watch Now 

Virtual Programs “Open House”

Teachers & Parents | 4-4:30pm

Watch this engaging session to learn about upcoming programs with the Jackie Robinson Museum team! … Watch Now 

Baseball’s Great Experiment : Robinson & Rickey

General Public

Explore the partnership between Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey and how it endured long after that initial meeting in August 1945. … Watch Now 

Insights from Sharon Robinson and David Robinson

How did Jackie Robinson balance being a father and husband while dedicating his life to fighting for equality? … Watch Now 

Howard Bryant on The Heritage: Black Athletes and Social Activism (2018)

What is the Black athlete’s role in social activism and has it changed since Jackie Robinson’s playing days? … Watch Now 

Today's Hours: 9 A.M. - 7 P.M.

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At 5 p.m. on Feb. 24, the National Archives Foundation will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the NL with a virtual program.

Join Bruce Markusen, the Hall of Fame's Manager of Digital and Outreach Learning, and the Honorable Rodney E. Slater, National Archives Foundation Vice-Chair, for a conversation on Robinson's life and legacy.

In this program, we’ll celebrate the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the Major League Baseball color barrier and take a closer look at the Hall of Fame infielder and civil rights pioneer. We’ll examine the reasons why Branch Rickey chose Robinson to break the color barrier, the bigotry that Robinson faced, and the successes he achieved both on the field and in his post-playing career as a civil rights advocate.

To learn more and register for the event, click here .

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Visiting the Museum

Pre-purchase individual or member tickets.

• Members Free
• Adults 18-61 $ 18
• Seniors 62+ $ 15
• Youth 5-17 yrs $ 15
• Students with .edu email address and current ID $ 15
• Child Under 5 Free
• Visitors with disabilities $ 15

Now Accepting Culture Pass

The Jackie Robinson Museum is now accepting Culture Pass! If you have a Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, or Queens Public Library card, you can reserve free passes to visit our museum, as well as 80+ cultural institutions across the five boroughs. Visit www.culturepass.nyc  to learn more.

Visiting The Museum Important Information

Thu – Sun: 11 AM – 6 PM Mon – Wed: Closed

The Museum is closed on the following holidays: Independence Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day

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Parking is not available on site. Explore this list of nearby garages for parking options.

Public Transportation

Subway: We are a short walk from the Canal Street subway station on the 1 and A/C/E lines. The nearest wheelchair accessible subway station is Chambers Street station. Visit the MTA website for details.

Bus: The M20 bus stops at or near the museum. For complete bus information, visit the MTA website .

Health and Safety

Masks are not required, but we support those who choose to wear them. Please stay home if you do not feel well. Visitors to the Jackie Robinson Museum are subject to search and screening.

Admission Discounts

Discounted admission is available for the following groups on-site at the Museum with verifying ID. For free admission and additional discounts, become a member .

• Veterans and active military personnel ($3 off)
• Capital One cardholders ($3 off)
• Museum Association members or Museum staff
• Visitors with disabilities (care partner free of charge)

Prohibited Items and Activities

To ensure the safety of our guests, staff, and the Museum’s collections, the following items and activities are not allowed during your visit:

• Explosives, firearms, knives, weapons, and toxic gases or substances  
• Eating or drinking in the Museum. Water bottles must be fully sealed (no cups with straws).
• Dogs or other pets (service animals are permitted)  
• Running, climbing, or sitting on exhibits or railings
• Creating a disturbance, yelling, audible music devices  
• Soliciting, posting, or distributing any sign, notice, ad, or print material  
• Entering any non-public area without authorization  

Coat and Bag Check

Visitors are invited to check their coats and are required to check any large bags, including backpacks, laptop bags, and suitcases at the Museum’s complimentary coat check.

NOW SENSORY INCLUSIVE CERTIFIED OUR KULTURECITY PARTNERSHIP

The Jackie Robinson Museum has partnered with KultureCity ® to enhance our ability to assist and accommodate visitors with sensory needs. Our goal is to provide an inclusive experience for all visitors during visits and events.

ACCESSIBILITY AND ACCOMODATIONS

Social narrative.

Review our Social Narrative to learn what to expect during your Museum visit.

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KULTURECITY® SENSORY BAGS

KultureCity® Sensory bags containing special KCVIP badges, feeling thermometer, fidget tools, and noise-canceling headphones are available for checkout (at no cost by leaving an ID) at either our Ticketing Desk or Coat Check both located in the front lobby. Sensory bags can be used for all abilities of all ages.

WEIGHTED LAP PAD

A weighted lap pad is available upon request at no cost at our Ticketing Desk in the front lobby.

The Quiet Area is located in the back part of the lobby next to the elevator. Walk past the large lobby screen to reach this area.

HEADPHONE ZONES

Headphone Zones help identify areas with loud audio or multiple sources of audio stimulation . The Main Gallery and the Sports Gallery have been designated as Headphone Zones. There is no requirement to wear headphones in these areas; this designation is intended to help all visitors set expectations in the event that headphones would make the experience more comfortable.

KULTURECITY® APP

Download the KultureCity® app on the App Store or Google Play to find the Jackie Robinson Museum’s venue profile, view a social story, and help prepare for your visit.

HOURS: 11 AM - 6 PM, Thu - Sun

National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.

Virtual Tour Tips

• To navigate between adjoining rooms in the tours, click on the blue arrow links on the floor or use the navigation map in the upper right of the presentation screen.
• Look for the camera icon which gives you a close-up view of a particular object or exhibit panel.
• Try zooming in as some of the images are stitched together from individual pictures in order to create very high resolution gigapixel images.

Please note: This tour and these presentations have been tested and should work on all common devices, browsers, and operating systems (using a desktop computer with Windows, Mac, Linux or a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad, or Android). Functionality and appearance may vary as it will adjust automatically to accommodate the most visitors. While the virtual tour has no advertising, ad blocking software or browser settings that block JavaScript and/or XML may interfere with the functionality of the virtual tour. Please let us know what you think of the tour and how the experience can be improved. Send your feedback to the NMNH Web Team .

Site Credit: Imagery and coding by Loren Ybarrondo

Equipment Used: Professional Nikon digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera bodies and lenses. The photography is typically done using rectilinear lenses with minimized distortion and shooting equirectangular panoramas at 22K pixels on the long side.

Software Used: No authoring software is used. The tours are hand-coded in HTML5 and JavaScript using the krpano graphics library.

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Why Jackie has two Hall of Fame plaques

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There is no place quite like the Plaque Gallery at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. It’s easy to lose yourself in the 3,660-square-foot centerpiece to the museum that tells a history of the game, highlighting accomplishments one by one for the almost 350 members enshrined. Nearly every important moment in baseball history pours through the walls as one walks through this carefully curated and manicured display.

It is curious then that for over 40 years Jackie Robinson’s plaque had no mention whatsoever of his place in baseball history -- in American history -- for breaking the color barrier in 1947. It is an achievement so well-known and woven into the fabric of the game that we celebrate its importance every April 15 on the anniversary of Robinson’s Major League debut .

All of that was entirely left out of the plaque that was unveiled on July 23, 1962, the day Robinson was inducted into the Hall of Fame . Here is the original text:

JACK ROOSEVELT ROBINSON BROOKLYN N.L. 1947 TO 1956 LEADING N.L. BATTER IN 1949. HOLDS FIELDING MARK FOR SECOND BASEMAN PLAYING IN 150 OR MORE GAMES WITH .992. LED N.L. IN STOLEN BASES IN 1947 AND 1949. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER IN 1949. LIFETIME BATTING AVERAGE .311. JOINT RECORD HOLDER FOR MOST DOUBLE PLAYS BY SECOND BASEMAN, 137 IN 1951. LED SECOND BASEMEN IN DOUBLE PLAYS 1949 - 50 - 51 - 52.

This is hardly the description one would expect to find on a marker for all time dedicated to a man who changed the face of American sports the way Robinson did. So how did it come to be that visitors who made their way to Robinson’s plaque, arguably one of the most frequented spots in the museum, found themselves staring at such plain words to describe a career so extraordinary?

It actually began with Robinson’s own wishes.

“I hope that I will be judged on my ball playing ability alone, not on the fact that I broke the color line,” Robinson told New York Daily News columnist Dick Young before the 1962 BBWAA Hall of Fame election, which marked his first appearance on the ballot.

Robinson later amended the comment to say that he felt his historical significance should not be “the primary consideration,” while acknowledging that the wave of change he ushered in had to at least be a factor. Perhaps Robinson was also keenly aware that some voters could be swayed against casting a ballot with his name for the very same reason.

The Dodgers career on which Robinson wished to be judged lasted only 10 seasons, yet the accomplishments were quite lofty, as he was a key member of six pennant winners and one World Series champion team.

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It is impossible to know if the individual voters used Robinson’s wishes as their personal guidelines. However, 77.5 percent of them (124 out of 160) did indeed check off Jackie’s name to make him a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

“I don’t think the writers chose Jackie in spite of his color or because of it,” Branch Rickey, the Dodgers general manager who signed Robinson, said upon learning of the election in January 1962. “They chose him on merit.”

Former Dodgers teammate Pee Wee Reese knew of Robinson’s edict to the voters, but he echoed Rickey’s sentiment.

“I don’t think that would even enter the mind of anyone who saw Jack do as much on the baseball field as I did,” Reese said.

With Robinson’s wishes for the election process in mind, the inscription on his plaque followed suit. While everyone across the land recognized the colossal impact he made not just to baseball but to the rest of the sporting world and American society at large, none of this was captured on the plaque that would hang in Cooperstown.

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Inside the museum, the plainness of language and lack of more career details wasn’t entirely unique to Robinson’s plaque. For example, Babe Ruth’s plaque lauds him as the “greatest drawing card in history of baseball,” but then almost glosses over his astonishing statistics by calling him the “holder of many home run and other batting records” and stating that he “gathered” 714 home runs.

Through the years, as more players became inducted, the plaques and the language on them started to evolve. In addition to more detailed statistics that told deeper stories of players’ careers, they began to include colorful nicknames like “The Sandman” for Mariano Rivera and “The Hawk” for Andre Dawson.

And in 1998, Larry Doby, who joined Cleveland of the American League less than three months after Robinson debuted with Brooklyn, was elected to Cooperstown . The final words of the first sentence on his Hall of Fame plaque celebrate Doby for “integrating the American League in 1947.”

It was sometime after Doby’s induction that discussions about changing the wording on Robinson’s plaque began. For several decades, staffers at the Hall of Fame had found themselves routinely being asked about the glaring omission. It was, after all, one of the main attractions in the gallery given his stature and popularity.

“Parents trying to explain to their children what Jackie Robinson’s role was as a player and as a human being weren’t able to do that looking at his plaque,” explained Jeff Idelson, former President of the Hall of Fame. “The plaques are a historical representation of a moment in time when they are written. The only time they really get changed are for factual errors. But in terms of changing a plaque, that was highly unusual.”

These were indeed unusual circumstances, and nearly every visitor to Cooperstown knew it. In the end it was Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow, who seemed to know that the time was right to update the historical record on the plaque despite her husband’s wishes four decades earlier.

Rachel contacted former Cincinnati Reds great Joe Morgan -- a Robinson family friend, Hall of Famer, and the Hall’s Vice Chairman of the Board -- and the wheels were put in motion. The inscription was carefully chosen, and in June 2008, a new plaque was unveiled inside the Plaque Gallery. Here is how it reads:

JACK ROOSEVELT ROBINSON “JACKIE” BROOKLYN, N.L., 1947-1956 A PLAYER OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY RENOWNED FOR HIS ELECTRIFYING STYLE OF PLAY. OVER 10 SEASONS HIT .311, SCORED MORE THAN 100 RUNS SIX TIMES, NAMED TO SIX ALL-STAR TEAMS AND LED BROOKLYN TO SIX PENNANTS AND ITS ONLY WORLD SERIES TITLE IN 1955. THE 1947 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, AND THE 1949 N.L. MVP WHEN HE HIT A LEAGUE-BEST .342 WITH 37 STEALS. LED SECOND BASEMEN IN DOUBLE PLAYS FOUR TIMES AND STOLE HOME 19 TIMES. DISPLAYED TREMENDOUS COURAGE AND POISE IN 1947 WHEN HE INTEGRATED THE MODERN MAJOR LEAGUES IN THE FACE OF INTENSE ADVERSITY.

From the inclusion of “Jackie” under his full name to the stronger opening line to the specifics of his prowess in stealing bases, this inscription dug much deeper into Robinson's outstanding career. The last sentence -- which at last described Robinson’s proper historical impact -- was purposefully placed at the end “as a way to honor Jackie’s wishes for how and why he was inducted into the Hall of Fame,” according to Idelson.

"There is no person more central or more important to the history of baseball for his pioneering ways,” Hall of Fame Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark said in 2008. “His impact on our game is not fully defined without the mention of his extreme courage."

"A very important part of Jack's life has been acknowledged today in a more total way," Rachel Robinson said when the plaque was shown to the public for the first time. “As he said … those of us who are fortunate to receive such an honor must use it to help others. As young people view Jack's new Hall of Fame plaque, they will look beyond statistics and embrace all that Jack has meant and all that they can be.”

Rachel went on to explain that while Jackie’s initial desires were noble, he would accept and appreciate the change so that his most vital contribution to the game could be recognized in this manner.

"I think he would understand now that we need to go beyond that and we need to think in terms of social change in America," she said. "He would want a part in that. I don't think he would object."

The original plaque that hung in Cooperstown from 1962 to 2008 still has a place for those who want to see it. It is on loan and displayed at the Jackie Robinson Museum in New York City.