Education
Discover dynamic education programs and curriculum resources about the history of our city, state, and nation.
Education Mission
The New-York Historical Society Education Division provides dynamic programming and curriculum resources for students and teachers in New York and beyond. Historical study sparks curiosity and creativity, promotes cultural understanding, and fosters an empowered citizenry to strengthen our democracy. Our staff of passionate professionals draws on our world-renowned collections to engage learners of all ages in the study of our collective past.
Education programs are made possible through endowments established by
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Hearst Foundations
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
Public funds are provided by
Institute of Museum and Library Services
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer
New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Education programs at New-York Historical receive generous support from
The Achelis and Bodman Foundation
The Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund
Acorn Hill Foundation
Altman Foundation
Amazon
Barker Welfare Foundation
AT&T
Best Buy
Maggie & Robert Boroujerdi
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Con Edison
Deutsche Bank
Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation
Mark and Lori Fife
Henry Nias Foundation
Alan Shuch and Leslie Himmel
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Keith Haring Foundation
IBM
Susan and Robert E. Klein
Caroline Lowndes Foundation
Ann Lozman
Dan W. Lufkin
Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
The Michael Tuch Foundation
Sandra and Lowell Mintz
Consulate General of the Netherlands
New York Community Trust
Onassis Foundation USA
Heidi and Richard Ong
Pine Tree Foundation of New York
The Pinkerton Foundation
Jean Reid
Denice Rein
Richard Reiss
Rice Family Foundation
Sara Lee Schupf
The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
Robie Spector
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Gillian V. and Robert Steel
Thompson Family Foundation
Tiger Baron Foundation
The Waterfall Family Foundation
Rachael Wells
Winston Foundation
Marie and John Zimmermann Fund
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Help us present groundbreaking exhibitions and develop educational programs about our nation's history for more than 200,000 schoolchildren annually.
Turn Your Campers Into History Detectives! E/M
Discover New York City through the DiMenna Children's History Museum and meet the children who lived here from the late-seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Campers will use their eyes, ears and hands to explore the interactive pavilions and kiosks, and participate in a scavenger hunt that will keep them on the move.
New York City: Then and Now E/M/H
New York City is the most populated city in the United States, but was it always? Campers will explore how New York City evolved from its Dutch colonial roots up to the present by examining works of art, artifacts, photographs and prints from the New-York Historical Society collection. By the program’s end they will understand how New York grew to be the city it is today.
Learning History through Paintings E/M/H
The paintings in the New-York Historical Society collection are not only works of art, but windows into our past. Campers will learn to identify portraits, cityscapes and landscapes, and then practice unraveling the stories that the artists are telling. They will quickly learn that not all artists can be trusted to tell the truth!
Objects Tell Stories E/M/H
Did you know that a historian can use a cup to determine the height of the people who used it? Artifacts, the everyday objects left behind by our ancestors, hold countless secrets of the past just waiting to be discovered. Campers will become "History Detectives" and will have the chance to observe, describe and interpret some of the more than 40,000 artifacts on display at the New-York Historical Society, discovering in the process an entirely new way to think about our past and our present.
What Exactly Are Historians, and Why Do We Need Them? E/M/H
During a highlights tour of the museum campers will get the chance to experience the kind of work that historians do, from examining an artifact and discovering its secrets to analyzing a painting for clues about what the world looked like long ago. In the end, they will have to decide: Is learning about the past important after all?
To bring your camp group to the New-York Historical Society, please contact us at schoolprograms@nyhistory.org or call (212) 485-9293.
