ACTIVITY: New York Historical Society
I'm sure the thought of visiting a historical society is enough to make many people jam their heads into a vat of quick dry cement, but listen to me! This place is amazing!
Easily one of the best museums I've been to in many moons, this historical society is located on 76th and Central Park West, an area itself that offers a boat load of restaurants, shopping and grassy knolls.
My man Lincoln directs you to the front door.
Matt was pleased to meet him.
The entryway offers ticketing ($15 for adults - we got two for one passes through Groupon) and this salon style collection. Generally in museums, paintings and artifacts are hung along a wall in a straight line at eye level. In a home, where proud amateur collectors would more likely want to maximize their space, collections were often composed on the wall like this allowing for more of the collection to be viewed at one time. I've personally never seen such a large example of this style and I loved how opulent it felt. It gave you a striking impression of how the wealthy of New York made that wealth known.
'History' can be as recent as events that happened yesterday. 911 has obviously had a massive impact on this city and the curators have done a wonderful job in acknowledging this event as being part of New York's ever evolving identity. A startling bit of reality for this proud American, who watched the falling of the twin towers on a classroom TV in Boston, was the severely dented and clearly mangled fire engine door.
You can print your presidents. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your president's nose.
Something I've never seen - cross writing. Apparently, to conserve paper, civil war soldiers would combat the scarcity of supplies by first writing the start of their correspondence horizontally and then turning the paper 90 degrees to finish it.
A supply bag used by civil war soldiers that I would own in a second if someone would sell it to me!
Before we left, we bopped in for their 30 minute video presentation of New York's resiliency and evolution. What an incredible presentation! All three of us teared up and walked out so proudly American, that we could have pissed red, white and blue. If nothing else, you must stop in and see it. If you don't live here in the city, you'll want to move and if you already do, you'll never want to leave.
Oh! And there is a Shake Shack around the corner! Note the abandoned umbrella in the background. Is the Umbrella Network taunting me now? I think so!
Easily one of the best museums I've been to in many moons, this historical society is located on 76th and Central Park West, an area itself that offers a boat load of restaurants, shopping and grassy knolls.
My man Lincoln directs you to the front door.
Matt was pleased to meet him.
The entryway offers ticketing ($15 for adults - we got two for one passes through Groupon) and this salon style collection. Generally in museums, paintings and artifacts are hung along a wall in a straight line at eye level. In a home, where proud amateur collectors would more likely want to maximize their space, collections were often composed on the wall like this allowing for more of the collection to be viewed at one time. I've personally never seen such a large example of this style and I loved how opulent it felt. It gave you a striking impression of how the wealthy of New York made that wealth known.
'History' can be as recent as events that happened yesterday. 911 has obviously had a massive impact on this city and the curators have done a wonderful job in acknowledging this event as being part of New York's ever evolving identity. A startling bit of reality for this proud American, who watched the falling of the twin towers on a classroom TV in Boston, was the severely dented and clearly mangled fire engine door.
You can print your presidents. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your president's nose.
FYI: They are currently showing a Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History exhibit, complete with beer tasting.
This place is jam packed with unique artifacts.
Something I've never seen - cross writing. Apparently, to conserve paper, civil war soldiers would combat the scarcity of supplies by first writing the start of their correspondence horizontally and then turning the paper 90 degrees to finish it.
A supply bag used by civil war soldiers that I would own in a second if someone would sell it to me!
Dude. I frequent museums, estates and castles often and I have never seen such an incredible coach in person! Every detail was perfectly preserved while still showing the obvious signs of repeat use (my favorite part of old stuff).
Before we left, we bopped in for their 30 minute video presentation of New York's resiliency and evolution. What an incredible presentation! All three of us teared up and walked out so proudly American, that we could have pissed red, white and blue. If nothing else, you must stop in and see it. If you don't live here in the city, you'll want to move and if you already do, you'll never want to leave.
Oh! And there is a Shake Shack around the corner! Note the abandoned umbrella in the background. Is the Umbrella Network taunting me now? I think so!
Happy Weekending, Everyone!!
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