Education is at the core of the City Museum’s mission, and our Frederick A.O. Schwarz Children’s Center offers a slate of education programs designed specifically for children from the five boroughs. Participants explore the city’s unfolding story and their own place in it. Curricula are project-based, hands-on, and interactive.
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Education programs produced by the Museum’s Frederick A.O. Schwarz Children’s Center utilize exhibitions and our incomparable collections to make the city’s history compelling and accessible to young people, serving nearly 40,000 students each year, the great majority of whom attend under-resourced public schools. The Center’s programs address the persistent, city-wide problem of student underachievement in social studies. Our approach to the subject challenges children to build their critical thinking skills: interpreting evidence; connecting new information and prior knowledge; drawing reasoned conclusions; and communicating their conclusions and reasoning clearly. These skills are crucial to children’s success in school, in the workplace, and throughout their lives. Programs take place in the Center’s state-of-the-art classrooms, Museum galleries, and in the city itself. All activities—including our flagship School Programs for groups visiting on field trips, out-of-school time programs, family programs, and professional development workshops for teachers—are led by trained museum educators.
Just 2 weeks away: a 6-day course for educators looking at teaching NYC's past, present, and future. There are just a few spots left!
Learn from experts in the field and engage with the history, art, and culture of the city as you develop lessons for your classroom in this 6-day course for educators.
Thank you to the 350 educators, students, and activists who joined us for the Museum’s 6th Annual Teaching Social Activism Conference!
Thank you to the 350 educators, students, and activists who joined us for the Museum’s 6th Annual Teaching Social Activism Conference!
There are just a few spots left in our June photo camp for kids ages 7-9! Sign up today!
A Digital Photography Camp for Students Ages 7–9
Registration is open to attend the 2018 Teaching Social Activism Conference, and spaces are filling up fast! Register today!
Join educators to address, celebrate, unpack, and encourage intersection in the classroom and beyond in this free conference.
Amazing speakers, important conversations, free and open to everyone.
Join Christopher Paul Harris, BYP100 NYC organizer and co-curator of "Racial Justice Today: Movement for Black Lives 2012-2017" - a new case study in our ongoing Activist New York exhibition - and a leading group of activists, scholars, and journalists to discuss the movement's origins, meteoric growth, and current status -- both here in New York City and beyond.
Teachers: he's also writing resource and lesson plans guides, which will be available on our website this fall. Join our email list to be notified when those go live.
Free! A discussion with activists, scholars, and journalists about the Movement for Black Lives.
Education Programs at the Museum of the City of New York's cover photo
Education Programs at the Museum of the City of New York
Thank you to everyone who came to our Sketching Salon last Thursday! We had a wonderful evening of drawing, music, drinks and trivia to celebrate the 1920s Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. Our thanks especially to our event partner, Drawing New York, Vera Safire, and The Grand St. Stompers who provided the brilliant music.
Check out some photos from the event and tag us in your own!
Happy Teacher Day 2017! We
2017 Theme: YOUTH AS CHANGE AGENTS
Celebrating social justice, youth voices, and the power of educators and education to make a difference.
#ActivistNY Museum of the City of New York
Saturday, May 6, 2017
2017 Theme: YOUTH AS CHANGE AGENTS
Celebrating social justice, youth voices, and the power of educators and education to make a difference.
#ActivistNY Museum of the City of New York
Saturday, May 6, 2017
"Muslims have been woven into the fabric of New York since the city’s origins as New Amsterdam and today New York’s diverse Muslim community—immigrant and American-born, from multiple racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds—constitutes an estimated 3% of the city’s population, some 270,000 people living in all five boroughs. They represent an important part of the diversity that the Museum of the City of New York’s rich photography collection chronicles."
"Muslim in New York." Opens Feb 18
Museum of the City of New York
Highlights from the Photography Collection
How are your students changing their world? Session proposals for the 5th Annual Teaching Social Activism Conference are due January 30th. This year's theme: Youth as Change Agents.
The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.
Thank you to the 358 educators who previewed New York at Its Core with us on November 8. These photos capture just a few of the highlights - we welcome you to return and visit us soon! http://www.mcny.org/education
#NYatitsCore
Another Education Center favorite from #ActivistNY for #PrimarySourceWednesday! "While the Nation is buoyant with patriotism, and all hearts are attuned to praise, it is with sorrow we come to strike the one discordant note, on this hundredth anniversary of our country's birth". This excerpt comes from the National American Woman Suffrage Association's "Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States", published on the nation's centennial in 1876. Read more here - http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYFJ23IMO&RW=1238&RH=684
It wouldn't be a fall Wednesday without #PrimarySourceWednesday !! Did you know that the Museum has an entire exhibition dedicated to this year's National History Day theme? Visit #ActivistNY for topic ideas and join us on FB each Wednesday as we showcase some of our favorite primary sources. Let's start with, Check Your School, from the "We Shall Not Be Moved: NY & Civil Rights, 1945-1964"" case study. This form was created by Ella Baker to gather statistics on the conditions of schools throughout NYC http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYWEZJ7YIA&SMLS=1&RW=1365&RH=700
Mark your calendars! The 2017 #NYCHistoryDay competition will take place on Sunday, March 5, 2017. Need help getting ready? We've got you covered! Checkout our lineup of free content-based workshops where we'll explore this year's theme, "Taking a Stand in History" by spending time in the Museum's galleries.
Middle- and high-school students undertake creative history research projects, culminating in the regional competition for National History Day. Find out how to participate in this year's NYC History Day!
Conference Agenda is now posted! Check it out and join us this Saturday for the free 4th Annual Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference! #ActivistNY
Educators are invited to present and participate in this free full-day conference, which highlights the various tools and techniques used by teachers to engage their students in the history and practice of social change.
We're excited to announce our new exhibition, New York at Its Core, opening this fall! Looking forward to expanded possibilities for tours, workshops, and exciting historical explorations!
“Our history was not inevitable, but a variety of reasons converged to produce what it is that makes New York New York.” Chief curator Sarah Henry discusses our landmark exhibition, New York at its Core, with The New York Times. Opening in November, the exhibition will depict the full scope of New York City history – and consider its future – in three galleries on the museum's first floor: Port City (1609–1898), World City (1898 to 2012) and Future City Lab. #NYatItsCore
#primarysourcewednesday
Rollin Kirby, a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, drew this image from our collection titled "Thanksgiving–Nevertheless." The image, drawn the year after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, depicts people lining up for free #Thanksgiving baskets.
http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Thanksgiving%20-%20Nevertheless.-2F3HRGTV5OG.html
#primarysourcewednesday
In honor of the launch of our New York City History Day program and the opening of the exhibition of "Carl Van Vechten: Photographing the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond," we present this classic photo of jazz singer Billie Holiday. Van Vechten considered his photographs of the iconic singer, in which she can be seen laughing, crying, and hugging her boxer, Mister, amongst his best. There is still time to join us this evening for the opening at 5pm.
Register for free online: https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=42684fbd-841e-4f14-b332-61c22780c049
#history #nyc #jazz
Billie Holiday - MNY37970
#primarysourcewednesday
On this day on Oct. 28, 1886 the New York's Statue of Liberty was unveiled. To celebrate, we share from our Collections Portal artist Edward Moran's "Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (The Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty)."
#history #historyday #explorationencounterexchange #nyc
Source: http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Statue%20of%20Liberty%20Enlightening%20the%20World%20(The%20Unveiling%20of%20the%20Statue%20of%20Liberty)-2F3XC531UVJ.html
This 1913 Byron Company image from our Collections Portal depicts ten Blackfoot Native Americans from Glacier National Park, Montana on the roof of the McAlpin Hotel in New York City. The party, which included seven chiefs, was brought east as guests of railway tycoon Louis W. Hill to be “part of the scenery” at a travel and vacation show taking place in the city. When they arrived in the city, the natives were offered a number of suites at the hotel but choose to spend the night in their teepees on the roof of the building, 25 stories off the ground. The native party then invited other hotel guests onto the roof for a chance to visit this makeshift village in the sky.
Checkout this article from The New York Times to learn more: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/19/104910528.html?pageNumber=3
#explorationencounterexchange #primarysourcewednesday #history #funfacts #nationalhistoryday
We're really jazzed about today's #PrimarySourceWednesday!
In preparation for this year's History Day's theme of "Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History" we're installing a display of Carl Van Vechten photographs of the Harlem Renaissance at the Museum & preparing curriculum bundles for teachers and students.
Find out more at: http://www.mcny.org/content/nyc-history-day
Source: http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Dancer-2F3XC58H7G2N.html
Teaching Women's History in your classroom? Join our friends from The Archivist Round Table of Metropolitan New York and the National Archives at New York City for the 2015 K-12 Archives Education Institute: http://nycarchivists.org/aei. Can't get enough of primary sources? Follow up the Institute with a trip to the City Museum's #ActivistNY exhibition to learn all about Women's Suffrage!
Photograph of World's First Computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. Mrs. Larocca making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement. [Sally Ride] America's first woman astronaut communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the six day mission of the Challenger.…
To celebrate the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, today's #primarysourcewednesday features a photo from our Collections Portal of Eleanor Roosevelt in a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. #explorationencounterexchange #nychistoryday
[Eleanor Roosevelt in a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.] - MNY218302
We are kicking off the start of autumn and our first #PrimarySourceWednesday with this acrylic painting by Judy Levy of legendary jazz musicians John Coltrane and Miles Davis from our Collections Portal. Check out Miles Davis' classic "Autumn Leaves": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1IA0bFS5Q
Happy first week of school, everyone!
Did you remember to pick up your official "Good Boy" and "Good Girl" awards?
Hmm...ours seem to be from the 1880s...
It's that time of the year again. As Labor Day rolls around, students of all ages and in all phases of their education start anticipating - and in some cases dreading - the first day of school. ...
Relax, draw, and unwind at Sketch and Sip! Wine, drawing materials, and excellent instruction provided. Plus, a private, after-hours experience in the galleries...join us this Tuesday, July 28, and on Tuesday, August 11th!
Sketch and Sip
Join the City Museum and hundreds of teens at Teens Take the Met on June 5th from 5pm to 8pm. Take a photo with us, inspired by Hip-Hop portraits! #metteens www.metmuseum.org/teennight
Announcing the Summer 2015 City Museum P Credit Courses!
*From Mannahatta to Manhattan*
*Capturing the City through the Camera*
*Migration and Movement: Project-Based Learning*
*Taking a Stand: NYC Activism in the 20th Century*
Each course is worth 3 P Credits and/or 36 PD hours, runs for 6 days.
The City Museum offers P Credit courses throughout the year featuring leading historians, engaging gallery tours, and hands-on workshops.
The results are in: 151 of you attended - from 6 states and 5 boroughs - and participated in 15 sessions, 2 museum tours, 1 thought-provoking Lunch-and-Learn, and countless discussions. What does all this make? One fabulous 3rd Annual Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference! Check out our album of photos from the day and join us again next year for the 4th Annual Conference!
Photo: Lissa Rivera/Museum of the City of New York
Snapshots and memories of participants and session leaders at the Museum of the City of New York's 3rd Annual Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference - Teaching Civil Rights: Then and Now - on Saturday, May 2, 2015.
Photos: Lissa Rivera/Museum of the City of New York
A conversation as important now as it was fifty years ago. "Teaching Civil Rights: Then and Now". Join the conversation #ActivistNY this Saturday. One day left to register for the free 3rd Annual Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference. www.mcny.org/content/social-activism-conference
Where to take the kids during a rainy spring break? How about our place – we're hosting Family Programs all week long, with a special breakdancing workshop coming up Friday: http://www.mcny.org/calendar-and-events/family-programs
We had an exciting weekend -- Check out some of our favorite moments from the 25th Anniversary of NYC History Day!
We celebrated the 25th annual NYC History Day last Sunday, 3/8, drawing over 400 students along with educators, families and friends. Students showcased their research projects on the theme of Leadership and Legacy in History, and we concluded with an awards ceremony. Congrats to all of our participants, and to Maryann Cooke of Sacred Heart of Jesus & Nancy Condon of Academy of American Studies for their dedication to history education! The two educators received the 1st ever Frederick A.O. Schwarz Children’s Center Educator of the Year Award. [Photos by Lissa Rivera]
But it's broken: What can we learn from very small things?
Although most curators and museum- goers engage with objects that are largely intact, archaeologists commonly work with fragments. In New York City, excavators may find a mix of intact and fragment...
Join us over February break and get P Credit!
We are offering two courses: From Mannahatta to Manhattan: Learning New York City History In-Depth and Taking a Stand: New York City Activism in the Twentieth Century. Learn more below!
The City Museum offers P Credit courses throughout the year featuring leading historians, engaging gallery tours, and hands-on workshops.
Early bird gets the worm! Sign-up now to receive $50 off the spring semester of I Spy NY, our photography afterschool course for children and teens. Want to learn more? Check out past I Spy NY student work here: http://museumofthecityofnewyork.zenfolio.com/
Photo taken by Nora, age 8.
The latest from the Museum's Collections Blog and Buffalo Bill.
Running up and down Brooklyn’s Seventh Avenue in 1894, little boys snatched their mothers’ clotheslines, fashioning them into lassoes to rope their younger sisters [1]. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West sho...
The latest from our Collections Blog:
Dining out in NYC ca. 1928: black skull punch, a $1.25 chicken dinner, and the no doubt dulcet stylings of the Original Pirate Band. Read more in this week's blog post.
http://mcnyblog.org/2014/12/10/the-origins-of-dining-out-in-new-york-city/
The holiday season is upon us, bringing with it numerous opportunities for eating and visiting restaurants. As we prepare the City Museum’s ephemera collections for digitization as part of a Natio...
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Saturday Academy moment of the week! Day 1 of the "Dancing Through History" class and they're already doing a Minuet!
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