Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

This weekend, stop by a 'touch table' of objects to enhance your visit to our exhibition, The Vietnam War: 1945 – 1975. With the help of an educator, you will explore a variety of original or reproduction items from the past to experience life on the home and war fronts in this new Living History program.

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Did you know that Thanksgiving became a national holiday during the American Civil War? Stop by the Museum on Friday to celebrate with Living Historians from the 119th New York State Volunteer Infantry, a troop of Civil War reenactors. Examine their 19th-century uniforms up close, learn a military drill, explore some of their fascinating gear, or ask them what a common soldier might have eaten for Thanksgiving dinner over 150 years ago!

Saturday and Sunday, October 21-22
Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Recommended for all ages
Free with Museum Admission

Spend your weekend at the New-York Historical Society visiting our new exhibition, Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, and meeting Revolutionary War soldiers!

Saturday and Sunday, November 18-19
Recommended for all ages
Free with Museum Admission

Spend your weekend at the New-York Historical Society visiting our new exhibition, Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, and meeting Revolutionary War soldiers!

Recommended for all ages
Free with Museum Admission

On Saturday, November 25, join us in celebrating Evacuation Day! On this day in 1783, New York City fell out of Britain’s control and back into American hands. Portrayed by Living Historian Michael Grillo, George Washington will be here to map out the British Army’s departure route from the city. Explore the bundle of possessions carried by British loyalists who left the city for Canada or England, and listen to our first president read his own proclamations about this holiday in the past!

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Come celebrate Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection with an up-close and careful look at how railroads were made and run long ago!

With the help of a railroad worker portrayed by a Living Historian, you’ll get the chance to explore tools and parts used to lay tracks, check out 19th-century clothing and accessories, and learn how trains transformed New York!

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

On October 14, 1781, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton made his famous charge to capture Redoubt Ten in the Battle of Yorktown. Come to the Museum ready with your questions for Hamilton! Portrayed by a Living Historian, Lt. Col. Hamilton tells you how he helped win the climactic campaign of the Revolutionary War. Don’t miss your chance to learn a military drill from the War for Independence under the instruction of Hamilton himself!

Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5
Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages