Current Exhibitions | New-York Historical Society

Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York

May 04, 2012 - September 23, 2012

Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York, highlights the histories of 150 notable examples of silver from the New-York Historical Society's collection...

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Beauties of the Gilded Age: Peter Marié's Miniatures of Society Women

November 11, 2011 - September 09, 2012

Second Rotation: March 13, 2012 - July 8, 2012
Third Rotation: July 10, 2012–September 9, 2012
Between 1889 and 1903, New York socialite Peter Mari...

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Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy

November 11, 2011 - September 09, 2012

Making American Taste features fifty-five works from the New-York Historical Society’s collection that cast new light on both the history of American art and the...

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The Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History

Ongoing

Explore the story of New York and America in the newly designed Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History. Highlights include:

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Harlem: The People

February 17, 2012 - June 10, 2012

1st rotation: Friday, February 17 - Sunday, June 10
2nd rotation: Wednesday, June 13 - Sunday, September 16

Known as the capital of Black America,...

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Titanic Voices

April 06, 2012 - June 03, 2012

Thousands of lives were changed forever when the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. The New-York Historical Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American...

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Audubon: National Treasures—Selected Gulls for The Birds of America (1827-38)

April 11, 2012 - July 01, 2012

Looking at these four watercolors you are enjoying an experience similar to that of John James Audubon’s (1785–1851) original subscribers to The Birds of...

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BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York

May 15, 2012 - September 02, 2012

The eradication of smallpox, variola major, from the world is one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. For centuries, this highly contagious, disfiguring lethal...