New York
New York
American Bible Society Library
1865 Broadway #2
New York NY 10023
Phone 212 408-1204
Web Site
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Religion
Research /Reading Library
NY
New York
American
Numismatic Society
96 Fulton Street
New York
NY
10038
Phone
212 571-4470
Web
http://www.amnumsoc.org/
E-mail
mailto:info@numismatics.org
Description
coins of all eras and countries, joint
exhibitions with Federal reserve of
New York
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
History Resource
Collection
A-F
Coins
Collection
G-M
Money
Research
Library
New or
Updated
2/9/2006
NY
New York
Collection at Daugavas Vanagi House
115 W 183rd Street
New York
NY
10453
Phone
212 367-8099
Web Site
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Alt Web
http://www.alausa.org/E21_Museums.htm
Description
Latvian folk costumes & textiles dating to 1680
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry /Profession
Textiles
Group Identity Eastern European
Collection A-F
Costumes
New or
Updated:
07/11/2003
Dog Museum of America
51 Madison Avenue
New York NY 10010
Phone 212 696-8350
Web Site
Description famous pets and their people
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Nature of Group or Site Animals
Collection A-F Dogs
New York
New York
Madame Tussaud Wax Museum
234 West 42nd Street
New York NY
Phone
Web Site www.madame-tussauds.com
Toll Free 800 246-8872
Description 175 wax figures, some of which you can touch
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Wax
NY
New York
Museum at
the Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York
NY
10001
Phone
212 217-5970
Web Site
http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlobal:Museum
Description
costumes, textiles, accessories at fashion school
in NYC
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry
/Profession
Textiles
Collection
A-F
Costumes
New or
Updated:
11/29/2005
NY
New York
Museum of
American Financial History
28 Broadway
New York
NY
10004
Phone
212 908-4110
Web Site
www.financialhistory.org
Description
Wall street, money, financial literacy
Type of
Resource Specialty Museum
Collection
G-M
Money
New or
Updated:
8/18/2006
NY
New York
Museum of
Chinese in the Americas
70 Mulberry Street
2snd floor
New York
NY
10013
Phone
212 619-4785
Web
http://www.moca-nyc.org/
Description
documents and interprets the history and culture
of Chinese Americans
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Group
Identity
Chinese
Research
Archives
New or
Updated
2/3/2006
NY
New York
Museum of
Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place
Battery Park
City
New York
NY
10280
Phone
646 437-4200
Web Site
www.mjhnyc.org
Description
memorial to the Holocaust with artifacts, photos,
short films & testimony
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Holocaust
Group
Identity
Jewish
New or
Updated:
12/30/2005
NY
New York
Museum of
Television & Radio
25 West 52nd Street
New York
NY
10019
Phone
212 621-6800
Alt Phone
212 621-6600
Web Site
http://www.mtr.org/
Description
also in LA, has library of radio & television
programs & commercials,
and themed
screenings
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Entertainment
Industry
/Profession
Broadcasting
Research
Library
New or
Updated:
1/6/2007
NY
New York
Museum
of the American Piano
291 Broadway
MAIL PO Box
177 Dobbs Ferry 10522
New York
NY 10007
Phone
212 406-5242
Web Site
http://www.museumforpianos.org/pianomuseum/Default.asp
Description
CLOSED after 9/11, trying to reorganize
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry
/Profession
Music
Collection
G-M
Musical Instruments
New or Updated:
3/17/2004
NY
New York
Museum of Public Relations
26 Broadway
22nd Floor
New York
NY
10004
Phone
212 943-5858
Web Site
http://www.prmuseum.com/welcome.html
Description
mostly online presence with biographies of PR
Men, reference library in
NYC
available by appointment
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Nature of Group or Site
Online Museum
Industry /Profession
Advertising
Research /Reading
Library
New or Updated:
07/14/2003
NY
New York
New York
City Fire Museum
278 Spring Street
New York
NY
10013
Phone
212 691-1303
Web Site
http://www.nycfiremuseum.org/
Description
leather buckets, helmets, hand pumped engines,
horesdrawn & early motorized
equipment
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Industrial
Building
Type
Firehouse
Industry
/Profession
Firefighting
Collection
A-F
Equipment
Collection
G-M
Machinery
Collection
N-Z
Vehicles
Era
1904
New or
Updated: 12/31/2005
New York City Police
Museum
Address
New York NY
Phone
Web Site
www.nycpolicemuseum.org
Description
history of the department and present day law enforcement activities
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry
/Profession
Law Enforcement
NY
New York
Nicholas
Roerich Museum
319 West 107th St
New York
NY
10025
Phone
212 864-7752
Web Site
www.roerich.org
E-mail
mailto:director@roerich.org
Description
Paintings by Russian-born artist
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Arts
Collection
N-Z
Paintings
New or
Updated:
11/11/2005
Police Museum
235 East 20th Street
New York NY
10003
Phone 212
477-9753
Web Site
Description
weapons, uniforms, artifacts
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry
/Profession
Law Enforcement
NY
New York
Skyscraper
Museum
Battery Park City
39 Battery
Place
New York
NY 10280
Phone
212 968-1961
Web Site
www.skyscraper.org
Description
focus on the tall building, several exhibits
relating to 9/11, online
Type of
Resource Specialty Museum
Nature of
Group or Site
Web Site
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Architecture
New or
Updated:
2/26/2006
NY
New York
Sony
Wonder Technology Lab
550 Madison Avenue
New York
NY 10022
Phone
212 833-8100
Web Site
http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/
Description
medical imaging, television, recording studio,
interactive theatre
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Technology
New
or Updated:
3/19/2004
NY
New York
South
Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton St
New York
NY
10038
Phone
212 748-8600
Web Site
http://www.southstseaport.org/
Description
artifacts, ships, historic area of New York's old
port area, 19th century
print shop
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Maritime
Collection
Printing
Research
Library
New or
Updated:
3/1/2006
Theatre Museum
1515 Broadway
New York NY
Phone 212 944-7161
Web Site
Description satellite of the City Museum of New York on Broadway, about Broadway
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Entertainment
NY
New York
Theodore
Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
28 East 20th Street
New York
NY
10033
Phone
212 260-1616
Web Site
www.nps.gov/thrb
Description
reconstructed childhood home of Teddy Roosevelt
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
President
Nature of
Group or Site
Government
Industry
/Profession
Politics
Owner/Operator:
National Park Service
New or
Updated: 2/15/2006 |
