Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for All Ages

Join us on Sunday for a close look at the origins of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, military orders to free enslaved people were finally, officially enforced in Texas—two months after the end of the American Civil War and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Discover how this new emancipation day was celebrated by meeting living historians who bring the mid-19th century to life with historical clothing, activities, and stories!

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

We’re celebrating our new Luce Center with soldiers from the American Revolution! On Sunday, march along to the tunes of a Revolutionary War fife and drum corps! Reenactors and musicians from the New Jersey Field Music Group will be in uniform performing all afternoon. Stop by to listen to a song and take a close look at their instruments!

Free with Museum Admission
Ages 10 and up

Abigail Adams—often described and remembered only as the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams—was an extraordinary woman and significant player in her own right during America’s Founding Era. Adams’ intellect and personality shine through in letters she wrote to family and friends, which are filled with discussions on government and politics as well as anecdotes about everyday life.   

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

We’re commemorating the 100th anniversary of America’s official entry into the First World War by bringing New York in 1917 to life! Each Saturday (except Independence Day Weekend), stop by the Museum to meet different personalities from the home- and war-fronts of the United States a century ago. Each week is different—you might discover the uniforms of army doughboys, run into a famous leader, or march with suffragists!

Performances at 12 pm, 2 pm, and 3:30 pm

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

This weekend we’re traveling through time to New York before the American Revolution, back when it was called New Amsterdam! Learn all about Dutch New York in the new North Gallery of our fourth-floor Henry Luce III Center.

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

This weekend we’re traveling through time to New York before the American Revolution, back when it was called New Amsterdam! Learn all about Dutch New York in the new North Gallery of our fourth-floor Henry Luce III Center.

Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for all ages

Need inspiration for a DIY Mother’s Day gift? This weekend we are celebrating creative tools from the past now on display in the new North Gallery of our fourth-floor Henry Luce III Center.