In 1993, Billings, Montana was impacted by antisemitism and racism when white supremacists moved to the town. On the evening of December 2, 1993, someone threw a brick through the window of a 5-year-old Jewish boy, Isaac Schnitzer, who was displaying a menorah. After the Schitzer home was vandalized, and inspired by the story of […]

Join author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints) and illustrator LeUyen Pham (Princess in Black, Real Friends) to celebrate the launch of Lunar New Year Love Story.

Over 35 years of practice, David West has spearheaded the design of over 150 multifamily projects. His talk will cover the history of residential high-rise design from the postwar years, explaining developments such as the significance of reinforced flat-plate construction and the impact of zoning and regulatory environments on housing production.

In the early 1930’s, an all-out war between China and Japan was about to break out. To protect the vast imperial art collections that contained a million pieces of art—exquisite paintings on silk, vanishingly rare Ming porcelain, and the extraordinary Stone Drums of Qin, which were adorned with 2,500-year-old inscriptions of crucial cultural significance, the […]

Mark Polizzotti presents Why Surrealism Matters, in conversation with Sasha Frere-Jones. An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate.

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars in search of answers. Mariners, too, have looked skyward, utilizing the stars for navigation across our vast oceans. Join the Seaport Museum and Kim Macharia, the Executive Director of Space Prize, for an illuminating presentation that delves into the driving forces behind our exploration of both the […]

Lecture on hidden narratives in Kenneth Pai’s literary tapestry

Drawing together original research, design studies, and cultural essays, Renewing the Dream offers the first comprehensive look at the changes remaking the mobility landscape of Southern California-and the opportunities to reappropriate vast tracts of the city for new uses. Edited by James Sanders and produced with the global architecture studio Woods Bagot, this book explores […]

Book reading presented by Kira Josefsson and Chloe Caldwell. A deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy that is being hailed as "the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited.

This year, for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Museum will host a community reading of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir Night. The book will be read in its entirety throughout the day by well-known figures, accompanied by music and speeches. The Museum will also host contemplative children’s activities, a meditation space, and a reflection wall.

Maritime-themed book club.

Zoom presentation. On February 2nd, 1653 the States General in The Hague and the Dutch West India Company issued a charter officially establishing a government structure like those existing in the Netherlands. This marked the beginning of representative government in New Amsterdam which became New York fourteen years later and was the forerunner of the […]

Join us to celebrate The Thirteenth Circle, an exciting middle grade mystery created by MarcyKate Connolly and Kathryn Holmes. Connolly and Holmes will read, sign books, and answer questions about crop circles and aliens.

Pingtan, known as “评弹” in Chinese, is an age-old performing art originating in southern China. It seamlessly weaves together storytelling, melodic singing, and humor to vividly depict an array of characters and narratives. Infused with a mix of cleverness and charisma, Pingtan artists utilize distinctive tones, voices, and expressions to captivate the audience, delivering both […]

An inspiring conversation on Native representation in contemporary media with artists and changemakers — Bobby “Dues” Wilson, writer and actor on FX’s critically acclaimed Reservation Dogs; Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and CEO of IllumiNative; and Jana Schmieding, writer and actor on Peacock’s Rutherford Falls. They will discuss narrative change and the crucial role of Native […]

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg.

Opportunity to gather in the power and beauty of poetry and the vitality of Jewish life. With our words, we combat the hate and prejudice so widely directed and expressed against Jewish people, and speak out against the bigotry and intolerance now rampant. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They […]

Talk highlighting the enslaved community surrounding the first President George Washington and their impact on his life. Repeated at 2pm.

The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation – rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Nowhere, writes historian Becky Nicolaides, are these changes more […]

Join McNally Jackson, Feminist Press, and selected contributors to celebrate a new collection of writing for the iconic underground blog Weird Sister. Collecting the best of Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.

Join the Seaport Museum for an enlightening afternoon with esteemed poet David Mills. Together, we will explore the profound themes of his award-winning book of poems, Boneyarn, which is the first book of poetry about the history of slavery in New York City. During the program, Mills will read a selection of his poems and […]

American civil rights leader Evan Milligan and German activist Raimund Grafe both work in places where the far right has social and political strength – Alabama and the German state of Saxony, respectively. They both believe passionately in the importance of history and remembrance in countering false narratives and extreme patriotism that are the seeds […]

Architect Lindsey Wikstrom’s book Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures traces wood’s passage from stewarded seed in the soil of forests, to harvested biomass, to laminated mass timber buildings. Pausing at each step in the supply chain, Wikstrom considers the labor and economies involved and looks closely at the way wood is grown, […]

This book club reads a novel set in New York City each month. This month, discuss Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Repeated on March 7 at 2pm.

Anna Shechtman presents The Riddles of the Sphinx, in conversation with Merve Emre. Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.

Historic presentation.

Anne de Marcken presents It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, in conversation with Hilary Leichter. Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it — how much of what we love can we lose […]

Author Erin Frankel will introduce this moving picture book biography about chef José Andrés, who, along with his World Central Kitchen organization, is sure to inspire kids to help out in their own communities.

Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the poetic landscapes of the Tang Dynasty as the Renwen Society at China Institute presents a lecture by Dr. Zhu Qi. A renowned scholar with deep expertise in Chinese literature, Dr. Zhu brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to his exploration of the three most celebrated poets of […]