jiliko New Children’s Museum of Manhattan to Open in 2028

The Children’s Museum of Manhattan on Tuesday announced that the philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch, its founding board chair, has donated a total of $50 million to the institution’s $300 million capital campaign for its new home at Central Park West and 96th Streetjiliko, which is expected to open in 2028.

“It’s the most I’ve given to one particular institution,” said Tisch, who also serves on the boards of the Whitney, Lincoln Center, Juilliard and the Aspen Institute.

Adding that she cares about “access and opportunity,” Tisch said that she was particularly motivated by the museum’s programs like the one that enables Rikers Island prisoners to spend time with their children at the museum, a partnership with the Robin Hood anti-poverty foundation.

In 2017, Tisch gave the museum $10 million and a loan of $20 million to help purchase the building, a century-old church. She followed that with $10 million gifts in 2022 and this year, as well as a recent conversion of the loan to a donation, the museum said.

So far $200 million has been raised for the capital campaign, which the museum said included the $45 million cost of construction, the building purchase, the exhibit design and fabrication, and an operating endowment and operating reserve.

ImageThe Children’s Museum of Manhattan, currently on West 83rd Street, will move into a century-old church at Central Park West and 96th Street.Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times

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