Our beautifully redesigned Museum Store features a large selection of gifts, books and limited edition art prints. Located just inside the 77th Street entrance, the Museum Store is your one stop for everything New-York Historical

Acclaimed restaurateur Stephen Starr, of Buddakan and Morimoto, brings casual elegance to the New-York Historical Society with Caffè Storico (Italian for “historic”).

Visitors can witness the dynamic forces that have shaped the nation and the city in New York Story, an eighteen-minute theatrical media experience set in the custom-designed, state-of-the-art Robert H. Smith Auditorium that illuminates the story of New York and its rise from a remote outpost to a city at the center of the world.

Each year we present over 100 riveting Public Programs on history and current events featuring such luminaries as Toni Morrison, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gloria Steinem and many, many others. Recent collaborators have included the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Central Park Conservancy, and even the New York Yankees.

The New-York Historical Society is the only museum in the metropolitan area where you can encounter acclaimed exhibitions that are part history lesson and part art exhibition. These shows break new ground in scholarship while they introduce you to the beauty, sometimes the darkness, and always the complexity of bygone eras.

The first-ever museum bringing American history to life through the eyes of children, where kids plus history equals serious fun!

Explore the story of New York and America in the newly designed Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History, which focuses on New York's seminal role in the founding era of the United States with New York Rising. Other highlights include: