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Website
www.mcny.org
Address & Phone
1220 Fifth Avenue
at 103rd Street
New York City, New York 10029
(212) 534-1672
Hours
Wed-Sat 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday noon - 5 pm
Tuesday Open to groups only
Suggested Donation
$7.00 General
$4.00 Student/Senior/Child
$12.00 Family
Shop
The museum shop has an excellent selection of books, notecards, photographs and posters related to New York. They also sell clothing and accessories.
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The Museum of the City of New York
"The Museum of the City of New York is a private,
not-for-profit, educational agency established in
1923 to collect, preserve, and present original
materials related to the history of New York City. In
addition to individual contributions and gifts from
foundations and corporations, the Museum
receives public funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for
the Humanities, and the National Endowment for
the Arts. The City of New York, the owner of the
Museum's building, provides support in the form of
operating and programmatic funds through the
Department of Cultural Affairs."
Current Exhibitions
At the Museum by Jason Wiggins
The Museum of the City of New York, one of the most elegant museums in the city, looks like a Colonial American mansion; it is a large red-brick building with white stone columns accenting the entranceway and marble floors and stairways. It is way uptown, but the area is just as safe as the rest of the city.
MCNY is a large museum with four or five floors of exhibits. The fifth floor, which houses the Rockefeller rooms, a recreation of the houses of several famous Robber Barons, including Rockefeller, is open to the public intermittently. The other exhibits have just about everything you ever wanted to know about New York City and then some, including an exhibit devoted to New York’s history as a major seaport with ship models and a seven foot tall statue of the inventor of the steamship. Another gallery has recreations of living rooms from various time periods starting in the colonial era. Of course, there are plenty of paintings depicting scenes of New York.
The Museum of the City of New York is the place to go to find out more about the city. Plan on a fairly long visit, three to four hours, if you want to look through the whole museum.
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