A new site-specific play at Federal Hall National Memorial. Six of America’s most celebrated playwrights take us on a journey through the first of the 527 momentous days when New York City was the first capital of the revolutionary United States government.
Hands-on activities and engagement stations for kids of all ages provide creative opportunities that illuminate history and life at sea while enhancing your visit to the Museum’s galleries, the tall ship Wavertree, and the lightship Ambrose.
J Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” worked with a team of physicists as part of the Manhattan Project, which created the world’s first-ever nuclear weapon in 1945. Essential to the story of World War II and the Holocaust, Oppenheimer is the subject of Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book American Prometheus: […]