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Museum of the City of New York

Museum of the City of New York

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The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University’s teaching museum. A resource across the university, we inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering interdisciplinary understanding of the material world. We provide opportunities for faculty and students to work with collections and the public, teaching through objects and programs in classrooms, in the gallery in Manning Hall, and at the Collections Research Center. New York Guggenheim Go New York On View Now On View Now Special Exhibitions The Skyscraper Museum The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

Guide Lower East Side de New York City .... Aujourd'hui, les traces les + visibles de cette époque restent Orchad Street où se trouve un tenement visitable au n° 97. Cette rue aligne une belle brochette de ces immeubles avec leurs échelles extérieures. Little Italy est réduite à Mulberry Street, sorte de Disneyland préservé, encerclée par Chinatown qui continue son expansion. Dans toutes les rues adjacentes, on trouvera encore d'anciennes églises ou synagogues. ( cf au 12, Eldridge Street ) Il faut bien regarder toutes les façades pour y repérer des inscriptions qui donnent des indices sur la nationalité ou l'ancien usage de tel ou tel immeuble. Toutes les époques d'immigration voyaient arriver un nouveau groupe ethnique et après l'Europe en général, ce seront les Antilles puis les Hispaniques etc .... Ce quartier a ainsi servi de machine à intégrer pendant + de 300 ans.

New Orleans Museum of Art 4 Monday Tai Chi/Chi Kung NOMA, in collaboration with the East Jefferson Wellness Center, offers wellness classes every Saturday morning and Monday evening. On Monday at 6 p.m., East Jefferson Wellness Center instructor Terry Rappold leads relaxing Tai Chi exercises in various art galleries at… Japan Society, New York - Gallery March 11–June 12, 2016 The catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan on March 11, 2011 and triggered an on-going nuclear crisis has been met with an overwhelming reaction in the arts, marking a profound shift in the contemporary Japanese cultural landscape. Opening five years to the day since 3/11, Japan Society’s presentation of In the Wake reveals a stunning range of photographic responses to the disaster and the artistic paths that lie ahead as Japan continues to rebuild.

New York Hall of Science Home Tenement Museum The Urban Log Cabin Over ten thousand people lived at 97 Orchard Street between the years 1870 and 1915. You may visit some of them, like the 1915 Rogarshevskys seen below, by clicking on the rooms of the tenement building from each era. There are eleven doll house dioramas in all. The dramatizations are based upon actual tenants. Abraham and Fannie, with their four older children, emigrated from Russia in 1901. Museum of Art

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