The Buffalo AKG offers fast-casual and full-service dining experiences at Cornelia in the Knox Building. Enjoy morning pastries with tea, coffee, or espresso drinks; stop in for fresh lunch offerings; or make reservations for our Thursday and Friday dinner service or Sunday brunch service.
Through Monday, June 30, 2025Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building
Join us on Saturday, June 14, for a celebration of music, community, and our neighbors to the North, featuring The Beaches with special guests The Trews and Menno Versteeg of Hollerado.
Located adjacent to the Wilson Town Square in the Knox Building, Creative Commons is a free, active space for ages five and up designed to help you create, share, and connect through fun and playful experiences with art! Admission to the Knox Building is always FREE.
Check out Hi-Vis: Ten Years of Public Art—a documentary that features reflective interviews with AKG Curator of Public Art Aaron Ott and many of the artists who have worked with the Public Art Initiative over the past ten years.
Members get the best access to the AKG and special opportunities to create deeper connections with the collection. Enjoy unlimited free admission, guest passes, invitations to exclusive members’ previews and events, and more!
Trace the evolution of the museum’s campus, from groundbreaking for our first building in 1900 to the opening of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in 2023.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
5 pm - 7 pm EDT
Join us for an exclusive Educators' event and go behind the scenes with museum staff to find exciting ways to link the art on display to your classroom curricula.
Friday, May 9, 2025
5 pm - 9 pm EDT
A free event hosted in conjunction with and in celebration of the museum’s Hi-Vis exhibition and public art’s strong thematic connections to Hip-Hop. The night will feature a sampling of Buffalo Hip-Hop practitioners from the music, art, dance, and fashion sectors.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
10 am - 4 pm EDT
Join us for a Sip & Shop event in the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Town Square. Fifteen local vendors will gather under Common Sky with their handmade jewelry, home decor, and more!
Saturday, May 24, 2025
10 am - 5 pm EDT
Watch artist Ellen Rutt execute one of her signature performative paintings on the Great Lawn!
Thursday, August 21, 2025
1 pm - 4 pm EDT
Join us for an afternoon of art and a friendly artmaking competition inspired by the reality cooking show, Chopped!