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 9, 2025Jeffrey E. Gundlach BuildingCLOSING SOON
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. Purchase Tickets
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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Saturday, June 12, 2021
10 am - 1 pm EDT
Join us for the 25th anniversary of Art Alive, where we’ll celebrate the winners of Virtual Art Alive 2021 in person. Come and view the overwhelming creativity on display, participate in an artmaking workshop, and get creative with the Art Truck.
Friday, June 4, 2021
12 pm EDT
Join us as Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director Janne Sirén announces the winners of Virtual Art Alive 2021! Council Member Joel Feroleto will be joining us to congratulate all of the entrants and winners.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
1 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
Join us for a FREE Virtual Family Funday featuring fun activities inspired by Sarah Suzuki’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity! and The Space Between: Frank Lloyd Wright | Jun Kaneko.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
5 pm - 6 pm EDT
Please join us for a virtual exhibition closing celebration of the 2021 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—The Presence of Absence—which features artwork created by high school students and is organized by the 2021 Future Curators.
Monday, March 22, 2021–Monday, May 17, 2021
9 am - 5 pm EDT
Join us this year for Art Alive—online for the second time! Vote for your favorite entries in the People's Choice Awards through May 26.
Friday, May 7, 2021
6 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Join us for a virtual poetry reading by Matthew Bosque, Melinda Capeles, Matthew Chevez, Joe Dejames, and Julia Ramirez inspired by the special exhibition Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration.
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Join us for a FREE Virtual Family Funday featuring fun activities inspired by José Pelaez and Lynn McGee’s book Starting Over in Sunset Park and Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Join us for a FREE Virtual Family Funday featuring fun activities inspired by Raquel M. Ortiz’s book When Julia Danced Bomba and Raúl De Nieves's artwork in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration.
Sunday, March 21, 2021
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
El Batey Puerto Rican Center Founder and Executive Director Beatriz Flores will discuss connections between the special exhibition Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration and Puerto Rican identity.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York will discuss their work creating space and advocating for Hispanic communities in Buffalo and how it relates to the special exhibition Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST
Pick up a creativity kit from the Art Truck at Canalside as part of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York's February Fun in 2021. You’ll get art supplies and a postcard that you can use to create a craft at home. This event is sold out!
Friday, April 30, 2021
7:30 pm EDT
In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. Please note: In the interest of safety, this event has been cancelled due to high winds.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Spring into a family-friendly film screening in the Albright-Knox Northland parking lot. In Black Panther, T’Challa, the heir of Wakanda, must take up the mantle of the Black Panther left behind by his father.
Friday, April 9, 2021
Spring into a family-friendly film screening in the Albright-Knox Northland parking lot. In The Princess and the Frog, Tiana becomes a frog after kissing a prince-turned-frog and must find a way to turn back into a human before it is too late.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Spring into a family-friendly film screening in the Albright-Knox Northland parking lot. Hidden Figures recounts the untold story of three brilliant African American women working at NASA on the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. This event has been cancelled due to weather.
Friday, March 19, 2021
Spring into a family-friendly film screening in the Albright-Knox Northland parking lot. Selena is the true story of a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, with chart-topping albums on the Latin music charts.