Map
Explore the DiMenna Children's History Museum before you visit with our made-for-kids interactive map. Click on each pavilion and discover more about the people you will meet during your visit.


American Dreamer
This engaging photo gallery combines images of New Yorkers from the past—well-known and obscure—with easily recognized people today. Young visitors can snap...
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Barbara K. Lipman Children's History Library
The library is a large, multipurpose space where students can read on their own, listen to a story in the comfortable class-size...
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Orphan Train
Here visitors engage in a pivotal moment in the lives of poor, young, New York orphans who were transported from East Coast cities to new lives, mostly in rural America, beginning...
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Cast Your Vote
Children discover candidates, voters, buttons, and ballot boxes from the past - and learn about who couldn't vote.
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History Detectives
The History Detectives pavilion explores a basic question: How do we know what we know about the past? There are two major parts of the pavilion. One is focused on..
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