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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Friday, July 7, 2017
12 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Come and explore our mobile ArtCart with interactive art activities for kids and families in Shark Girl: Never Quite There.
Friday, June 23, 2017
7:15 pm EDT
On the occasion of the public opening of Joe Bradley, please join us for a free talk with the artist.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
3 pm EDT
Join us for a unique performance by the Buffalo Chamber Players in our Sculpture Court in honor of International Museum Day.
2 pm - 4 pm EDT
Artists of all ages are invited to participate in a free artmaking activity inspired by works on view in the museum.
11 am - 11:45 am EDT
Join us for a family-oriented tour of works in the 1962 Building, part of our International Museum Day celebration.
7 pm - 9 pm EDT
Please join us for a free public opening of Joe Bradley, the first large-scale museum exhibition in North America devoted to the artist's work.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
5 pm - 6:30 pm EDT
Please join us for a celebration of the 2017 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Exposition—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2017 Future Curators.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Please join us for a celebration of the 2018 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Push + Pull—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2018 Future Curators.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
5 pm - 8 pm EDT
Please join us for the opening of the 2017 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Exposition—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2017 Future Curators.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Please join us for the opening of the 2018 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Push + Pull—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2018 Future Curators.
Friday, June 2, 2017
8 pm EDT
Join us to try this collaborative, chance-based parlor game invented by Surrealist artists.
Friday, September 1, 2017
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
This one-hour tour led by an Albright-Knox–trained docent encourages participants to “read” four works of art from their own perspectives.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
Public tours are led by Albright-Knox–trained docents and are free on the first Friday of each month as part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY.
5 pm - 7 pm EDT
10 am - 12 pm EDT
Friday, August 4, 2017
4 pm - 5 pm EDT
