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This isn’t quite a hidden gem, but it is not mentioned often on lists of Must Do activities in New York. It should be. The Historical Society is a well-arranged collection of treasures, most notably the Audubon art and the Tiffany lamp collection. You’ll also find Picasso here,…
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We walked from 84th and Amsterdam, wove around the Natural History Museum, oh and did some window shopping and buying and walk up stairs, past a bronze of Fredrick Douglas into -- - structured mayhem. Apparently someone rented the museum for an engagement party to begin that…
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The Museum of Natural History was packed shoulder-to-shoulder on a Saturday afternoon, so we came here instead for "air," and how surprised we were by the treasures within! The Tiffany exhibit was dazzling, extensive, and highly informative -- one quickly came to appreciate the…
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We went specifically to see the Tiffany exhibit (thought we did see everything), which has over 100 examples of Tiffany lamps, primarily designed by Clara Driscoll and the "Tiffany Girls." It was luminous. The designs and colors, were beautifully lit and displayed. And it was…
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The New York Historical Society Museum would be a good find in lesser cities. The exhibits all are well done, well curated, the facilities themselves are very pleasant. Perhaps there simply is too much history to be told, maybe editing what is displayed cannot allow any…
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