History Detectives

Buzz! Clank! Thud! Woo woo! Our annual exhibition Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection is chugging along in full swing! This year, we’ve got more train programs than ever. Every Friday through February, we’re opening the doors early at 7:30 am for Rise and Ride the Holiday Express so you can get your train fix in the morning. From Tuesday, December 26, through Monday,…

The holiday season is upon us! Here at the New-York Historical Society we are celebrating with our special annual exhibition Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection and lots of associated family programs designed to engage and delight our youngest visitors and their caregivers. Downstairs in DiMenna Children’s History Museum, we have an…

Our special exhibition The Vietnam War: 1945–1975 is an expansive, chronological investigation of factors leading up to and after the Vietnam War. The exhibition highlights themes of civic duty, citizenship, and what it means to be patriotic through text, visual aids, and historical objects. The Vietnam War era remains a complicated time in American history…

This Friday kicks off Veterans Day Weekend at the New-York Historical Society! And one of the ways we are honoring those who served in the armed forces is by bringing three centuries of military history to life. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, meet a variety of Living Historians portraying soldiers from the American Revolution, Civil…

In conjunction with our new exhibition The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, our Reading into History Family Book Club welcomes National Book Award winning author Thanhha Lai to our November 12 meeting.  Thanhha Lai discusses her stunning semi-autobiographical book-in-verse Inside Out and Back Again and then joins us on a special tour of our Vietnam War exhibition….

Join us this weekend for our Living History program, Votes for Women!  and welcome back our resident suffragists from 1917! In addition to meeting the women who won the ballot almost 100 years ago to the day, visit our brand new exhibition Hotbed and watch our new short film We Rise, presented by our Center for Women’s History in…

There is so much interest right now in exploring the history of one of America’s most controversial wars, the Vietnam War—including right here at the Museum, where we’ve got a new exhibition, The Vietnam War: 1945-1975. How can young people best start to grasp the origins, major events, and ambiguous results of this complicated conflict?…

On October 29, we’re hosting our annual DiMenna Creepy History Museum Haunted Hallowe’en Party, where families can enjoy all sorts of historical, spooky fun! Families will enjoy craft activities, a haunted mystery room activity created by Mystery Room NYC, and the storytelling chops of April Armstrong, plus they can even take an old-timey photo with…

Last week we learned how conservator Lansing Moore from Center Art Studio preserves and prepares objects to go on display in a Museum. Did you know he and his team actually preserved a very special portrait of Eloise on display in our exhibition, Eloise at the Museum? In 1956 Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight painted this…