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Telling New York City’s stories since 1923. 📍1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
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Meet Sylvia Rivera, a trans Latina activist who advocated for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers. 🏳️🌈 Museum educator Sydney is back to highlight an inspirational and under shared New Yorker as part of our monthly “Hidden Voices of New York City” series. Educators! Register your students (grades 3-5) for a virtual workshop about Rivera's life and legacy on Wednesday, June 14. Sign up on our website.
#HiddenVoicesNYC #PrideMonth #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe
#HiddenVoicesNYC #PrideMonth #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe
New York City’s biggest block party is back on Tuesday, June 13, from 6 pm to 9 pm. Explore your favorite cultural institutions at this year’s #MuseumMile Festival. @The Metropolitan Museum of Art @Neue Galerie New York @The Jewish Museum @El Museo del Barrio @Guggenheim Museum @AKC Museum of the Dog
“Thank god I’ve been sitting on the couch for 45 years.” 😂 Would you have won it all? Here’s another clip from @Public Opinion , who tested folks on some NYC film trivia, inspired by our new exhibition “This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.” #ThisIsNewYork #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe #NYCHistory
How many did you guess right? “This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture” is now open! Inspired by the exhibition’s one-of-a-kind immersive film experience, “You Are Here,” our friends at @Public Opinion headed to the streets to test New Yorkers on their NYC film history. #ThisIsNewYork #MCNY100 #TikTokTaughtMe #LearnOnTikTok
For seven years, Filipina photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani worked collaboratively with Farah, a survivor of labor trafficking from the Philippines, to document her everyday life—from grocery shopping and attending mosque to Farah’s community work and family vacations.
In photographs from her larger series, “We Are Like Air: NYC,” Bacani captures a migrant Southeast Asian woman’s journey towards safety and security in her adopted home in Queens. Explore Bacani’s work in our contemporary photography exhibition “New York Now: Home.” Through June, travelers can also see “We Are Like Air: NYC” at JFK Airport Terminal 4, which was, meaningfully, the first arrival point for the artist and Farah when they immigrated to the United States. The #NewYorkNow installation at the airport is part of a brand-new, ongoing collaboration between T4 and the Museum.
Stay tuned for more artist spotlights as part of our new #BeyondTheLens video series. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth
In photographs from her larger series, “We Are Like Air: NYC,” Bacani captures a migrant Southeast Asian woman’s journey towards safety and security in her adopted home in Queens. Explore Bacani’s work in our contemporary photography exhibition “New York Now: Home.” Through June, travelers can also see “We Are Like Air: NYC” at JFK Airport Terminal 4, which was, meaningfully, the first arrival point for the artist and Farah when they immigrated to the United States. The #NewYorkNow installation at the airport is part of a brand-new, ongoing collaboration between T4 and the Museum.
Stay tuned for more artist spotlights as part of our new #BeyondTheLens video series. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth
Meet Wong Chin Foo. 👋 Museum educator Sydney is back to highlight an inspirational and under shared New Yorker as part of our monthly “Hidden Voices of New York City” series.
Interested in learning more about Wong? On May 3, we are hosting a virtual program about the activist featuring guest speaker Scott D. Seligman, author of “The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo” (2013). Students, Grades 3-5, will also have the opportunity to learn about Wong during our student programs on May 17. #AAPIMonth #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe
Interested in learning more about Wong? On May 3, we are hosting a virtual program about the activist featuring guest speaker Scott D. Seligman, author of “The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo” (2013). Students, Grades 3-5, will also have the opportunity to learn about Wong during our student programs on May 17. #AAPIMonth #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe
New York became the great skyscraper city, surpassing its rival Chicago, in the 1920s. Reformers argued that these massive buildings were depriving New Yorkers of light and fresh air, so a 1916 citywide zoning law required “set back” upper floors to provide light and air at street level. Completed in 1931, @empirestatebldg is an example of a setback skyscraper, with its upper floors set back from the lot line. The setback skyscraper is what created the distinctive profile of New York City’s skyline we know and love today. #LearnOnTikTok #TikTokTaughtMe #NYC #Architecture
