Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York is a museum dedicated to the art and history of New York City and its people.
location
The museum is located at the north end of Museum Mile at 1220 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between 103rd Street and 104th Streets across from Central Park .
history
The Museum of the City of New York is a non-profit organization and is publicly funded. It was founded in 1923 and was initially housed in the Gracie Mansion . Today it is the residence of the Mayor of New York City. Just a few years later, today's home on Fifth Avenue was designed and built in Georgian style by Joseph J. Freedlander (construction period: 1928 to 1930), so that the museum was able to open its doors here in 1932.
In 1982 the museum received the Gold Medal Award from The Hundred Year Association of New York in recognition of outstanding contributions to the city of New York.
- Tweed Courthouse move
In 2000, consideration was given to moving the museum to the historic Tweed Courthouse by City Hall in Lower Manhattan . The nearby museum El Museo del Barrio could then have moved into the previous building of the Museum of the City of New York . Ultimately, however, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to move the new New York City Department of Education to the Tweed Courthouse , which led to the then director of the Museum of the City of New York, Robert R. Mcdonald, resigning.
- Extension of the museum
The new museum director, Susan Henshaw Jones, started the expansion and renovation of the museum building and thus focused on upgrading the location on Fifth Avenue at the transition between the Upper East Side and East Harlem . The groundbreaking ceremony for this took place on August 2, 2006. The first part of the museum expansion was officially opened on August 13, 2008. This is the Pavilion Gallery , a glass extension with an area of approx. 280 m², which shows archaeological artifacts on two levels . In addition to the expansion of the museum, the main building was renovated and received a vault for its silver collection, a room for scientific work and a room for processing and examining artefacts. The total cost of this first phase of renovation was $ 28 million. Further renovation phases followed and are expected to be completed in autumn 2011. Ultimately, the total renovation project will cost approximately $ 85 million.
collection
The Museum of the City of New York's collection includes over 1.5 million exhibits. The museum collects, preserves and displays items related to the history of New York City and its people. In addition to paintings, drawings, prints, cards and photographs, this also includes items of clothing, decorative objects and furniture, old toys, rare books, manuscripts, memorabilia, objects from the navy , military , police , fire brigade, etc.
The theater collection documents, among other things, the golden age of Broadway - including 3,500 costumes, props, costume drawings, stage sets and models, theater photographs and plays, programs and memorabilia from the theater sector.
The collection of clothing from New York City's history includes early evidence of 17th century Dutch women's clothing, as well as christening gowns, diapers, sportswear and outerwear from four centuries to the present day. The size and quality of this collection has made it an important source for academic research in the field of fashion.
The exhibits on means of transport include ship figureheads , an omnibus, an ambulance from the Bellevue Hospital, a police car from the 19th century and a checker cab from 1980.
The collection of silver objects (New York Silver Collection) from the period between 1678 and 1984 is on the 1st floor of the museum building.
The museum is also known for rooms decorated in the style of different historical eras in New York City's history, such as John D. Rockefeller's dressing room and bedroom that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated to the museum. A special collection item in the museum is z. For example, the chair that once belonged to Sarah Rapelje , the daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje from Nieuw Amsterdam, who is said to have been the first child of Europeans to be born in New York State. The chair is a donation from their Brinckerhoff descendants.
A significant part of the collection consists of prints, photographs and drawings. The extensive photo collection, for example, which also includes works by Jacob Riis and Berenice Abbott , is one of the most important photo collections in the United States.
Other artifacts from the culture and history of New York City include seats from Yankee Stadium , hats from congressmen and suffragette Bella Abzug , a war workers jumpsuit designed by Vera Maxwell or a barber's chair from a barbershop.
Greenwich Village was the focal point of American Folk Music - revivals in the 1950s and 1960s -Jahren. Woody Guthrie , Pete Seeger , Leadbelly and Bob Dylan lived in New York City and also charged the zeitgeist with political content. A 2015 exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York documents these times. The book Folk City - New York and the American Folk Music Revival was published at the same time .
advancement
In addition to donations from private individuals and grants from foundations and companies, the museum receives public funding from the New York State Council on the Arts , the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts . The City of New York, owner of the museum building, supports the museum in the form of operating funds and funds for museum offers through the Department of Cultural Affairs .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robin Pogrebin: The City Changes. Its Museum Will, Too. . In: The New York Times , September 28, 2006. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
- ^ Museum of the City of New York . In: Homepage , January 5th, 2011. Archived from the original on May 14th, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Robin Pogrebin: Museum of History Unveils Its Future . In: New York Times , August 11, 2008.
- ↑ a b c d e f Museum of the City of New York at www.nyc.com . In: Homepage , January 5, 2011.
- ^ Museum of the City of New York at www.onlinereisefuehrer.de . In: Homepage , January 5, 2011.
- ^ Sarah Rapalje (1625-1685), The New Netherland Institute, New York State Library, Albany, New York
- ^ Museum of the City of New York at www.visit-usa.at . In: Homepage , January 5th, 2011. Archived from the original on August 11th, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Museum of the City of New York at www.ny.com . In: Homepage , January 5, 2011.
Web links
- Museum of the City of New York (Homepage)
- Museum of the City of New York at www.nyc.com
- Museum of the City of New York at www.ny.com
Coordinates: 40 ° 47 '33 " N , 73 ° 57' 6.8" W.