Father's Day
Free with Museum admission!
Kids and dads practice their history detective skills with a scavenger hunt designed with dads in mind!
Family Album Scrapbook
Pre-registration required.
Save those movie ticket stubs! Alan Balicki, Senior Conservator, shows tools and materials to preserve the past. Families work with talented teaching artists to create an album that will showcase precious images, documents and objects. Great for grandparents!
To pre-register, please e-mail familyprograms@nyhistory.org.
Family Histories Through Video Storytelling
Great for grandparents! Pre-registration required.
Parents, grandparents and children come together and reflect on their family history by learning how to tell a story and record their history. Great for grandparents!
To pre-register, please e-mail familyprograms@nyhistory.org.
PBS Kids Club
Free with museum admission!
Explore the DiMenna Children's History Museum with PBS Character Arthur! Uncover objects and learn about New York's oldest museum and the newest museum!
Infanterie Regiment von Donop (Hessian)
Description
History comes alive for the whole family with Living History Days at the New-York Historical Society! Do you want to know what life was like in the eighteenth century? Please join us as re-enactment troops and Living History actors recreate the world of Revolutionary America. Living History Days will feature appearances by troops of the Continental, Loyalist, British and Hessian armies and, on select days, actors portraying Revolutionary heroes, including George Washington, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, and the Marquis de Lafayette.
About the DiMenna Children's History Museum
Explore 300 years of New York and American history through the eyes and lives of children of the past! The DiMenna Children's History Museum is a museum-within-a-museum, occupying the New-York Historical Society's entire lower level. It includes character-based pavilions, a the Barbara K. Lipman Children's History Library, a Whiz Bang Quiz Machine, and interactive exhibits and games. The DiMenna Children's History Museum encourages children to identify with the people whose enterprise and creativity changed the course of our history.
Family Membership
Membership support helps the DiMenna Children's History Museum and the New-York Historical Society care for a priceless collection, made fully accessible to the public, and provides our education programs with the resources to serve more than 100,000 New York City public school students each year. Become a member today—it’s only through our partnership with history enthusiasts like you that we’re able to continue “Making History Matter.”
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Classic Toys
Learn about the history of classic games and pick up a few tricks along the way! There will be two workshops, one starting at 12:30 pm and one at 3:30 pm.
Event details
Have you ever wondered why kids play a game with sticks and a ball? Or how about those funny looking things we call “Jacks?” Learn about the history of these classic games and pick up a few tricks along the way!
There will be two workshops, one starting at 12:30 pm and one at 3:30 pm.
Location
Lower Level Classroom, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
You Are Here!
Event Details
From the 17th century to the 21st, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of NYC and the people who made it great.
Explore wayfinding, a room-sized map, and what Manhattan looked like 400 years ago in these stories about maps.
Free with museum admission. Please check back for information on upcoming story tellers and stories.
Location
Barbara K. Lipman Children's Library, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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