Museum of the City of New York
The Museum showcases New York’s evolution from its origins as a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans to the cultural diversity of today.
From article II of the NYHS Constitution: "The object of the Society shall be to discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and of this State in particular."
The Police Museum was established in 1929, but the roots of the police museum can be traced as far back as the 1880's when the first Chief of Detectives started a Museum of Crime at then police headquarters at 300 Mulberry Street.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
From 1892 to 1954, nearly twelve million immigrants landed here, representing the greatest tide of incoming people in the nation’s history.
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was the only President born in New York City. He lived at this site from his birth on October 27, 1858 until he was 14 years old.
Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest house, was headquarters to General Washington in September and October of 1776.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Tour actual unrestored apartments of families living in the economically depressed conditions in NYC in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When New York was the nation’s first capital, the tavern was rented to the new government to house the offices of the Departments of War, Treasury and Foreign Affairs.
Educational tours through New York's ethnic neighborhoods and historic districts.
