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City Artifacts Thursday, August 10, 2017

Conserving the Adolph Alexander Weinman Sculptures on the Museum’s Façade

It’s not every day that collections care at the Museum involves a giant boom crane and a forklift. Learn about the effort to clean and conserve the sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton.

City Artifacts Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Presenting, the Ephemera Collection

The Museum is pleased to announce the completion of Illuminating New York City History through Material Culture, the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project to process, catalog, digitize, and rehouse the Ephemera collections.

Behind-the-Scenes Sunday, May 14, 2017

The Beheading of President Andrew Jackson

Learn about the fascinating story behind the decapitation of President Andrew Jackson’s figurehead on the U.S.S. Constitution.

City Artifacts Monday, April 24, 2017

Contemplating and Commemorating Rapid Transit in New York City

Happy Birthday, NYC Subway! The subway system opened on October 27, 1904. Go back to the beginnings to learn how the underground railway came to be.

Excerpt from “Museum of the City of New York and Marine Museum of the City of New York Annual Report 1967-1968”. Museum of the City of New York

Behind-the-Scenes Tuesday, November 22, 2016

From Taxidermy to Technology: the Exhibition Evolution at the Museum of the City of New York

Having just opened New York at Its Core provides us with an opportunity to look back at the evolution of exhibitions here at the Museum over the past 93 years.

City Artifacts Monday, November 14, 2016

Lenape Ceremonial Club

A close reading of the ceremonial Lenape Club, one of the many fascinating objects featured in our New York at its Core exhibition.

City Artifacts Monday, November 14, 2016

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

In this guest post, Lisa Keller explores how a 1911 tragedy galvanized support for labor reform and worker's rights in New York City.

City Artifacts Monday, November 14, 2016

The Cross Manhattan Expressway

This brochure illustrates a contentious and never-realized future for New York City, where the car would rule Lower Manhattan.

City Artifacts Monday, November 14, 2016

The Apple Peeler and Corer

As part of our featured object series that explores key artifacts from the New York at its Core exhibition, we asked Hasia Diner to reflect on the Apple Peeler and Corer, on loan from the Lower East Side appetizing store, Russ & Daughters.

Behind-the-Scenes Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Civil Rights in Brooklyn

A behind the scenes peek into the making of New York at its Core and some of the Civil Rights Era artifacts that will be on view in the exhibition.

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