Brooklyn Museum's Museum on Wheels Rolls Into Kensington, NYC, Oct. 24

Museum on Wheels is the Brooklyn Museum's mobile arts program, run out of a custom-designed, colorful Airstream trailer that parks in neighborhoods around the borough. It began last year as part of the museum's 200th anniversary and returned in 2026 for a run from May through October. The activities are free and hands-on: art making, cultural storytelling, games and learning projects inspired by the museum's collection. Time Out reports that more than 4,100 people took part in the first season.

This year's stops have included Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Coney Island, Williamsburg and Atlantic Avenue, usually tied to a local event such as a Mother's Day weekend festival, a kite festival, a Juneteenth celebration or City of Water Day. Each stop is built with local arts and community organizations.

The season's final listed stop is this Saturday, October 24, in Kensington. Museum on Wheels joins Casa Cultural's 10th annual Día de los Muertos celebration, which honors lost loved ones through art, music, dance and community traditions. It runs from 1 to 6 pm at Avenue C Plaza, 556 McDonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11218, and all ages are welcome.

Families can take part in hands-on art making and face painting, enjoy food, and enter raffles and giveaways. Visitors can also contribute a photo to the communal ofrenda. The program was created in partnership with Casa Cultural, with special thanks to TF Cornerstone.

For Japanese readers, the day offers a neighborhood-scale look at a remembrance tradition that has some echoes of Obon, seen through one of Brooklyn's Latino communities. The Brooklyn Museum is also showing Mika Ninagawa: Feel the Flow(ers), the Japanese photographer's first immersive installation in the United States, in its Education Gallery.

(Details are drawn from points that agree across reports by Brooklyn Paper, Time Out New York, BK Reader.)