Ongoing Exhibitions | New-York Historical Society

Targeted for children ages 8–13, the DiMenna Children’s History Museum focuses on the life stories of a...

A group of approximately twenty paintings and two small sculptures offer visitors a chronological journey through highlights of the New-York Historical Society's rich...

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Howard Thain's Eye: Discovering New York in the 1920s

Howard Thain moved to New York in 1919, and he described how during the next decade he spent every moment he could in the streets recording the city and its people “who...

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The Games We Played: American Board and Table Games from the Liman Collection Gift

The Games We Played presents a rotating selection of board and table games from the Liman Collection, an extraordinary collection of more than 500 examples donated...

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Martorell’s From Here To There

Created by Antonio Martorell and friends, this mixed media installation in the New-York Historical Society’s Luce Center reflects on the theme of Puerto Rican migration...

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The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture

The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture on the fourth floor provides public access to nearly 40,000 objects from the New-York Historical Society’s...

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Works from the Permanent Collection

Christian Köhler’s Germania (The Awakening of Germania in the Year 1848), 1849 (1882.154) is installed on the second to third floor stairwell. It was...

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Treasures of Shearith Israel

Objects and documents from the incomparable collection of Congregation Shearith Israel (established 1654), including manuscripts, maps, liturgical treasures and historical...