In 1860, Englishman Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895) founded a Parisian atelier that defined the luxurious standards of the haute couture and set high fashions stylistic course for the balance of ...

Left: Dr. Zinga A. Fraser, Right: Dr. Farah J. Griffin ...

The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 200,000 accessioned objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 to present day Broadway ...

On May 21, 1910, some 10,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square to demand that women receive the right to vote. The rally, the largest woman suffrage demonstration yet held in the country, ...

The experience of walking El Barrio—the Museum of the City of New York’s own neighborhood—would be vastly different without the artworks of Manny Vega (b. Bronx, 1956). His mosaics and murals adorn ...

To commemorate the centennial of the birth of Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), the Museum of the City of New York and the Shirley Chisholm Project at Brooklyn College will present the first major museum ...

In the decades after the new Cross-Bronx Expressway bisected the South Bronx in the 1950s, abandonment and arson claimed large swaths of the borough. Facing diminishing revenues, some landlords were ...

The Museum of the City of New York’s Costume and Textiles Collection is one of the foremost repositories of New York City-centric attire, and is distinguished by its interpretation of clothing not ...

Alexander Alland. Children in Halloween costumes. 1940. Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. #94.104.3 We are back with another edition of Spooky City! Join us on Saturday, October 26, ...

The Museum of the City of New York’s furniture collection documents New York City style from the late 17th to the early 20th century, and illustrates how furniture production, or cabinetmaking, as it ...

From left to right: Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., LC-DIG-ppmsca-55930; Image courtesy of Ingrid Griffith. Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & ...

All of the benefits of the Individual Member level for two Unlimited free admission for you and a guest $150 is tax deductible ...