This annual Museum fundraiser hosted by Sons of the Revolution℠ in the State of New York, Inc. honors George Washington and provides much needed financial support for the maintenance and preservation of Fraunces Tavern and for our robust Museum programming. This year we will honor our Distinguished Patriot awardee Mr. David M. Rubenstein
Lively 2.5-hour tour of Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown. Meet at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Discover more than four centuries of life and death in Manhattan.
Gibney, the New York City-based dance and social justice organization, presents the world premiere of Chilseong Saenamgut (Duringut): Ritual for Sickness, created by award-winning traditional and contemporary arts performer Dohee Lee, artistic director of Puri Arts. The work is a performance ritual inspired by the sacred rituals originating in the artist’s hometown of Jeju Island, […]
On this live, virtual tour we will experience the history of the four Jewish communities in Vienna’s history, starting with the first community during the Middle Ages and ending with Jewish life in present day Vienna. On our way through the city center, we will experience Judenplatz, which was once the center of Vienna’s Jewish […]
The Rosenstrasse Protest of 1943 was held against the incarceration and potential deportation of roughly 2,000 people who were arrested by the Gestapo on February 27, 1943. With their loved ones held at Rosenstraße 2-4 in Berlin, family members, many of whom were women, kept their protest going for a week until Nazi leader Joseph […]
On February 26, 1993, terrorists detonated a van loaded with explosives in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The attack killed six people, including a pregnant woman, and injured thousands. At the time, this was the largest improvised explosive device ever ignited on American soil. To mark 30 years since the attack, Marc […]
Architects are artists and builders! Together, we’ll read Andrea Beaty’s classic Iggy Peck, Architect and learn about the process of design and using creative building materials to make stand-out buildings. Afterward, we’ll turn floor plans into our own inventive towers. This is recommended for ages 4-10, and is an in-person program.
Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun. Participants are encouraged to bring their own equipment: weights, water bottle, hand towel etc. Proof of vaccination required.
Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided. Space is limited, registration required
Innovations rarely come from “experts.” When it comes to improbable innovations, a legendary tech VC told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. It is the nature of the venture-capital game that most attempts at discovery fail, but a very few succeed at such a scale that they more than […]
The Museum's director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of RESIDENTIAL RISING: Lower Manhattan since 9/11, which focuses on Downtown's doubled population and transformed skyline over the past twenty years. RSVP required.