Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)

Collection care:the Museum holds approximately 750,000 objects in its collection, with over 190,000 objects from our collections, now available as part of our ongoing digitization project and can be viewed on our website. the Museum continues to digitize its collection, and in fy23 the Museum produced around 8,000 digital photography files for mixture of research, exhibition, publication, and portal use. In fy23, the Museum completed transitioning its collections management database from museumplus to the Museum system.see schedule o for continuation.the Museum acquired over 800 works in fy23, predominantly in photography but including noteworthy sculpture highlights, facilitated 15 outgoing loans, coordinated loans for and installed four exhibitions including one of our most ambitious spanning the entirety of the third floor in honor of the Museum's centennial. Over the course of fy23 we hired an assistant registrar, costume collections manager, two collections managers, a New institutional archivist and a manager of exhibition installation. Hiring and training this number of New team members took a significant amount of time.the traveling exhibitions coordinator position was eliminated at the end of fy22, the assistant registrar and the rights and reproduction coordinator left the Museum. This work was absorbed by the registrar and director of collections. Mcny's traveling exhibition through a different lens: stanley kubrick photographs was paused and shipped back to the us until another venue is determine. City grant work to digitize portions of our collection through both the imls and gardiner foundation continued and were made available online until the imls grant expired. Digitization and documentation of New acquisitions continues.one of the intensive projects which began in fy22 was the transition from our former database (museumplus) to the Museum system. (that was completed in fy23.)

Exhibition and publications: in fy23, the Museum showcased 11, including our permanent exhibitions, New York as its core, and temporary exhibitions bringing in close to 140,000 visitors from all over the world. Through its exhibitions the Museum fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. Exhibitions that have opened or will open in fy24 include four seasons of central park: watercolors by fredrick brosen; people, place, and influence: the collection at 100; byzantine bemb: New York by manny vega; preservation in progress: picturing immigration; and changing the face of democracy: shirley chisholm at 100. See schedule o for continuation.celebrating the City: recent photography acquisitions from the joy of giving somethingfebruary 18, 2022 - january 9, 2023celebrating the City: recent photography acquisitions from the joy of giving something highlights a gift that has dramatically advanced the Museum's already exceptional photography collection. Juxtaposing striking recent images with work by some of the 20th century's most important photographers, including the Museum's first images by robert frank and william klein, the exhibition is a moving celebration of the power of photography to capture New York and New yorkers.analog City: nyc b.c. (before computers)may 20, 2022 - january 8, 2023analog City: nyc b.c. (before computers) uncovers the array of tools, technologies, and lost professions that supported New York City as it exploded into a global metropolis in the pre-digital era. Focusing on the period between the1870s and the 1970s, analog City examines the technologies that enabled the City to reach its position as the "capital of the world" in an age before the speed and capacity of today's digital technologies. Set against a contemporary backdrop of 24-hour news cycles and high-speed tradingin which questions about privacy, truth, and the impact of social media are increasingly pressingthe exhibition uncovers this bygone era of paper files and pneumatic tubes, of note cards and telephone directories, and examines how New York thrived as a center of finance, news, research, and real estate in an era before personal computers and the internet. the stettheimer dollhouse: up closenovember 20, 2020 - october 3, 2022on december 18, 1945, the Museum of the City of New York held an unusual event: a house-warming for a doll's house. Among the invited guests were Georgia o'keeffe and other artistic luminaries of the day. They gathered to celebrate the unveiling of a one-of-a-kind three-dimensional piece of art made by carrie w. stettheimer, who had passed away the year before. Today, the stettheimer "doll's house" an artistic model made over the course of nearly two decades between 1916 and 1935 is one of the great treasures of the Museum of the City of New York. Carrie, along with her sisters ettie and florine, hosted a famous artistic salon in the early 20th century, which influential art historian and critic arthur danto later called the "american bloomsbury." Ettie was a philosopher and novelist; florine was a painter; carrie was an aspiring theatrical designer whose artistic goals were derailed by her obligations to run the household. Her creative energies were channeled instead into the crafting of a miniature world whose interior reflected the stettheimers' life in their fashionable apartment and reflected the avant-garde artistic circles of New York in the 1920s for 19 years, carrie stettheimer worked on this three-dimensional work of art, reflecting and reinterpreting the artistic, aesthetic, and cultural milieu in which she and her sisters moved. Among its most outstanding features is the ballroom, which features miniature works gifted to carrie by some of the leading names of modern art in New York in the 1910s and 1920s, including louis bouch, gaston lachaise, marguerite and william zorach, and many others. A particular highlight is marcel duchamp's miniature version of his famous nude descending a staircase, which had created a sensation at the 1913 armory show in New York City. Seventy-five years later, the Museum celebrates the anniversary of this extraordinary gift with a reinstallation of the famous stettheimer dollhouse. A New, dedicated gallery will provide greater access to this extraordinary object during this time of social distancing, as well as biographical information about the stettheimer sisters and the members of their circle, including influential artists who made miniature artworks for the house. Visitors will be able to view the house, learn about its features, view enlarged images of the tiny details, and discover rarely seen additional miniature works by some of the leading lights of early 20th-century modernism, among them a miniature george bellows. As carrie's sister ettie wrote about the gift of the dollhouse to the Museum of the City of New York, "i feel certain that no repository would have been more satisfactory to her than the Museum of her own City. "New York, New music 1980-1986june 11, 2021 - september 18, 2022during the early 1980s, New York experienced a community-driven musical renaissance. the result was an era of creativity and genre-defying performance that stands as one of the most influential in musical and cultural history. A wide range of music, from punk to pop to hip-hop to salsa to jazz, mixed in a dynamic arts scene that stretched across clubs and bars, theaters, parks, and art spaces. Together, they provided fertile ground for a musical revolutionone that continues to influence pop culture to this day. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of mtv, New York, New music: 1980-1986 highlights diverse musical artistsfrom run dmc to the talking heads, from madonna to john zornas a lens to explore the broader music and cultural scene, including the innovative media outlets, venues, record labels, fashion and visual arts centered in New York City in these years.

Educational programs:education remains at the core of the Museum's mission. Students, educators, families, and community members from across the five boroughs and around the world take part in the schwarz center's educational programming each year. Our programs focus on inquiry-based learning and hands-on experiences to engage learners in examining the City's past so that they may understand the present and envision their role in shaping the future.see schedule o for continuation.with great excitement, the center opened its doors in full in january and offered onsite programs, as well as virtual offerings, from january through june. In fy2023, the frederick a.o. Schwarz education center served 18,460 students, teachers, and families through virtual and onsite programming and connected with over 60,000 viewers online through schwarz center-generated educational content.education remains at the core of the Museum's mission. Students, educators, families, and community members from across the five boroughs and around the world take part in the schwarz center's educational programming each year. Our programs focus on inquiry-based learning and hands-on experiences to engage learners in examining the City's past so that they may understand the present and envision their role in shaping the future.educational offerings at the center include virtual and onsite field trips, out-of-school-time programs, professional development workshops and courses for teachers, curriculum and educational resource development, and family and community programs. Field trips make up the bulk of the schwarz center's attendance, linking historical and contemporary topics pertaining to New York City to the New York City department of education scope and sequence for social studies, common core learning standards for english language arts in history, and the New York state next generation learning standards for literacy in history/social studies. the schwarz center offers onsite and virtual trips that utilize museum-developed content and hands-on learning to explore topics that are distinctly New York. Led by Museum educators, these programs are 60 or 90 minutes and are designed for individual school groups of up to 35 students each. All programs feature images, text, and content from current and archival exhibitions, and in fy2023 the center prioritized creating New art-making workshops and other engagements to ensure each field trip experience includes a hands-on activity in-gallery field trips have been a cornerstone of the Museum's education program for many years, and the challenges of the pandemic created an opportunity to digitize our field trip programming via zoom. For the return to onsite field trips, the center offered field trips on a pilot basis over the summer and in december 2022, while the schwarz center continued to engage with k-12 students through virtual field trip formats. In january 2023, the schwarz center officially relaunched in-person field trips with many New and robust offerings and immediately received an overwhelming influx of requests from school groups.virtual student workshops are free, large-scale programs held via zoom webinar that serve multiple classrooms and grade levels at once. Participants see and discuss visuals from the Museum's exhibitions and collections on such themes as the civil rights movement, women's suffrage, and graffiti art in New York City to connect the past to our present. Offering large-scale virtual workshops for free enables schools who are otherwise unable to visit the Museum, either due to a lack of funding or to geography, to access our educational resources and collections.to complement the Museum's individual group offerings, the schwarz center continued to offer large-scale virtual student workshops for multiple school groups or classrooms from across the City to join for free. Virtual webinars were initially launched in response to the shift to virtual learning in fy2021, with previous topics including City as canvas: art and graffiti in nyc, "for the people's health:" the young lords and health activism and raise your voice: aapi creativity in resistance. Webinars feature a variety of topics and are segmented by grade-band to more closely connect to in-classroom learning.in fy2023, the Museum launched a New series of virtual student workshops to complement the schwarz center's work on the hidden voices: untold stories of New York City history curriculum guide developed in partnership with the New York City department of education (nyc doe). In january 2023, the schwarz center launched the hidden voices of New York City series that reached nearly 4,000 virtual participants across a total of 12 online sessions. the series was offered entirely for free and was designed for teachers and students in grades 3-5. the workshop series highlights and honors the individual and collective experiences of a diverse swath of New yorkers and featured the stories of six historical figures from nyc who advocated for the rights of black, indigenous, and other communities of color, working communities, and gender and sexually diverse communities: antonia pantoja, bayard rustin, elsie richardson, david ruggles, wong chin foo, and silvia rivera. the student program was complemented by professional learning events which were designed to support educators with the best teaching strategies to bring these stories into the classroom, including activities and discussion strategies for grades 3 to 5. Guest speakers provided additional background on the featured individuals, and online resources were shared to help educators prepare and implement culturally responsive pedagogy that values the families, knowledge, and experiences of diverse students in New York. These five virtual professional learning sessions welcomed a total of 176 attendees.the schwarz center evaluates all in person and virtual student programming using digital evaluation tools to allow educators to share feedback about their experience engaging the Museum's student programs. Based upon their experiences, nearly 100% of survey respondents have indicated an interest in returning to the Museum for future programs.this year, the Museum continued to develop and refine our in-depth, long-term school partnerships program model. the Museum partnered with the south bronx community charter high school (10th grade) again this year, and also added a second local school, p.s. 108 school of authors (2nd grade). Through its professional learning offerings, the schwarz center serves pk-12 educators and administrators through lectures, workshops, week-long courses, curriculum supplemental materials, and collaborations with the nyc doe, the majority of which are free to participants. In fy2023, the Museum served over 2,300 educators through professional learning programs, which included both single-day events and multi-session programs. the Museum is an accredited provider of professional learning with both the nycdoe and the New York state education department, and eligible program participants receive continuing education credits. the Museum has long served as a steadfast resource for our City's teachers and continued to offer opportunities for engagement with the Museum's content, scholarship, and leadership throughout the past year.at the onset of fy2023, the Museum launched New programming designed by, for, and with New York's k-12 students and educators, local family and community members, and national and international visitors alike. the core tenant of these programmatic objectives is to support New York City youth, families, and community members through specific channels designed to connect with our audiences in ways that are effective, equitable, creative, and engaging. the kick-off programming for this initiative was the reach youth ambassadors program piloted in summer 2022. Supported by a starting cohort of 85 youth participants registered through the New York City summer youth employment program (syep), the program was held onsite at the Museum four days per week. Participants chose an arts discipline to explore led by two teaching artists and presented a final showcase of their work at the end of the summer.at the start of the 2022-2023 school year, the Museum launched two programs to serve families with children from ages 12 months to 12 years: movies for minis a monthly, saturday movie screening and art activity workshop for intergenerational audiences; and storytime @ mcny a weekly, friday morning storytelling program facilitated by a Museum educator featuring art activities and engaging interactives. These programs served nearly 900 participants in this pilot year. Additionally, from september 2022 to april 2023, the Museum hosted over 10 community partners and 500 attendees at community events.

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