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Alice Austen House Museum & Garden
The Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island recalls the world of an exceptional woman, photographer Alice Austen. Austen's quaint, Victorian cottage-style home, with a magnificent view of New York Harbor, displays prints from the large glass negative collection of her work that depict turn-of-the-century American life.
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http://www.nycparks.org
American Craft Museum
The mission of the ACM is to support craft by celebrating the talent of national and international master craftsmen. The galleries are arranged in a unique fashion, on a series of interior balconies, with curving stairways linking the different levels. The works on display are mostly contemporary crafts, though they aren't the abstract forms that most people would expect from contemporary art. Some pieces, are so outlandish that they are amusing to look at, while some have a social message at the center of the work. Almost all of the gallery space is devoted to rotating exhibits.
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http://americancraftmuseum.org
American Museum of the Moving Image
The nations's largest and most comprehensive holdings of moving image artifacts. Over 83,000 items, ranging from an 1835 Thaumatrope, an optical toy utilizing the perceptual phenomenon of visual persistence, to the anchor desk used on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw from 1992 to 1999.
Category: Museums
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Cultural Production
, Education
, Technology & Engineering
Time Period:
20th Century to WW2
, 20th Century to WW2
, 19th Century since Civil War
http://www.ammi.org
Bronx County Historical Society
Bronx oriented exhibitions, public programs and lectures, a research library, and archives. See Calendar of Events for upcoming programs.
Category: Museums
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General NYC History
, Cultural Production
, Architecture
Time Period:
English to American Revolution
, 19th Century to Civil War
, 19th Century since Civil War
http://bronxhistoricalsociety.org
Brooklyn Children's Museum
A museum where children can explore culture, history, science and the arts together. Hands-on exhibitions, workshops and performances.
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Education
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http://www.brooklynkids.org
Brooklyn Historical Society
Founded in 1863 as The Long Island Historical Society, The Brooklyn Historical Society is a museum, library, archives and educational center for the exploration of Brooklyn's heritage and history. BHS celebrates the first phase of its grand reopening after four years of extensive renovations with the opening of the exhibition, Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn. Enter re-created environments of tenement buildings and sugar refineries, see original advertisements and artifacts from products manufactured in Brooklyn, and hear the stories of workers from enslaved Africans to modern restaurant owners.
Category: Museums
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General NYC History
, Architecture
, Ethnicity & Immigration
Time Period:
20th Century since WW2
, 20th Century to WW2
, All Periods
http://www.brooklynhistory.org
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum's collection of Painting and Sculpture includes European and American works from the 14th century to the present day. The collection of American paintings is considered one of the finest in the United States. Highlights from the 18th century include famous portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale. Among the 19th-century artists represented are Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent, George Inness, and Winslow Homer. 20th-century artists in the collection include Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Alex Katz, Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, and Louise Bourgeois.
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http://www.brooklynart.org
Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture
The Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture is a nonreligious organization that engages schoolchildren and families in an active, hands-on exploration of history and culture in non-threatening and inclusive ways to benefit the diverse Jewish community and the community at large.
It is home to two fully interactive and hands-on exhibitions for families with children ages 5-12 and schools serving children between second and sixth grade.
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Education
, New York & the World
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All Time Periods
http://www.cgjc.org
Chinese antique furniture, oriental curio, Asian handicrafts, souvenirs, cushion, bags, table runner
We(www.orient-curio.com) exporter on Chinese antique furniture, Asian antiques, oriental curio, antique furniture reproduction, Tibetan, silk embroidery, cushion, table runners, bags, paintings, folk art, crafts, jewelry, handicrafts
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Business/Professions
, Economy
, Consumer Culture
Time Period:
19th Century since Civil War
, 20th Century since WW2
http://www.orient-curio.com
City Reliquary
The City Reliquary has the distinction of being a window museum. People in the community pass it daily on their way to and from the subway, the grocery, or the coffee shop, or they stumble across it when they're walking home from work via a different route. It is either an integrated part of their daily landscape, or a personal discovery. In either case, passersby are offered a kind of ownership that major institutions strive for in their public relations campaigns, but rarely achieve. We aim to be a humble but effective hub, of many sorts - historical, cultural, and social. We offer historical displays of modest ephemera - bits of bridges, old postcards, etc. We organize events - Collector's Night, Bike Fetish Day, September 11 Memorials, Bike Rides, Writing Contests. We've also started a community mini-garden movement in old bathtubs in front of our windows, and we broadcast a monthly radio show through a local internet station. We post neighborhood-related political information, and in general act as "the water cooler" of the neighborhood
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www.cityreliquary.org
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