A Certificate for a Family Membership to the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library

New-York Historical Society Museum & Library is located at:
170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way, NYC

Family Membership Level Benefits:
- Unlimited free admission for two 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
- Opportunity to host a Birthday Party

The New-York Historical Society Museum

As the oldest museum in New York City—predating even the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years—our Museum is home to some of the city’s and nation’s beloved artworks, including those by Thomas Cole, Rembrandt Peale, and Gilbert Stuart, as well as all 435 of John James Audubon’s extant preparatory watercolors for Birds of America.

Newly designed in 2017, the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture on our reimagined fourth floor offers visitors an interactive exploration of new and historic objects from our collection, such as George Washington’s camp bed from Valley Forge, the 1863 draft wheel used in the lottery that set off the Civil War Draft Riots, and American folk art from the legendary collection of sculptor Elie Nadelman, as well as objects from the legendary tennis player and equal rights activist Billie Jean King and 100 glistening Tiffany Lamps—one of the world’s largest collections of Tiffany glasswork—on view in our Center for Women’s History.

The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

One of the oldest, most distinguished libraries in the nation—and one of only 20 in the United States qualified to be a member of the Independent Research Libraries Association—the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, newspapers, broadsides, music sheets, manuscripts, prints, photographs and architectural drawings. The Library continues to receive important research materials relating to education, philanthropy, social service, and the history of New York and the nation, including the papers of the Children’s Aid Society, the complete archives of Time Inc. and the New York Sun, photograph collections of Jessie Tarbox Beals, Editta Sherman, and George Kalinsky, and much more.

DiMenna Children's History Museum

Founded in 2011, DiMenna Children’s History Museum is the first history museum in the United States designed specifically for children, presenting 350 years of New York and American history through character-based pavilions, interactive exhibits and digital games, the Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library, and a wide range of family learning programs for toddlers, children, and preteens.

For current exhibitions, please visit https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions

For future exhibitions, please visit https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions