Gift certificate redeemable for a Family Membership at the NY Historical Society Museum & Library.  Benefits include: unlimited free admission for to adults and up to four children under 18; invitations to members-only events; 10% off at the Museum Store, Parliament, Storico; Empire State Reciprocal Program Membership; invitation to Thanksgiving Eve Family Celebration and other select Family Events throughout the year; and an opportunity to host a birthday party.

History buffs will love this Upper West Side institution. Built in 1804, it's the oldest museum in New York City. In a nod to history, the museum kept the hyphen in its name—that’s how the city’s name was spelled back in the early 1800s. The New-York Historical Society features more than 1.6 million works that explore the history of the city and the country, including exhibits, art and historical artifacts. The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library has more than three million books, newspapers, maps, photographs and more from our nation’s founding through slavery and Reconstruction and beyond. The Gilder Lehrman Collection is also housed in the New-York Historical Society, where you can view signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment and the Constitution. If all that history makes you hungry or thirsty, enjoy lunch or dinner at Storico, an Italian Starr restaurant, or grab a java at Parliament Espresso and Coffee Bar. -Time Out NY

From October 5-January 2019, the Society will display the highly anticipated Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibit.  Members can reserve tickets on February 14 starting at noon.  So get your wands and credit cards out!

https://www.nyhistory.org