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Crash Course Karaoke

Enjoy karaoke with a live band!

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Singer-Songwriter Sessions

The Bitter End presents a weekly acoustic show with New York's best singer-songwriters, every Sunday night.

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Seaport Past & Future

This free exhibit will take guests through The Seaport's centuries of growth and epic changes that have impacted New York City and the entire region. Achival materials showcase vintage streetscapes presented with the same views as they appear today allowing visitors to examine continuities and change over time at The Seaport. These momentous occasions will be demonstrated through multi media featu read more...

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Cost: Free

John Lennon: The New York Years

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC is proud to present JOHN LENNON: THE NEW YORK CITY YEARS, which opens May 12, 2009. This feature exhibit explores John Lennon’s passion for music, art, politics and film, with New York City as his backdrop. Capturing a time in Lennon’s life that was full of political and social activism, the exhibit reflects the spirit of the era during which he created some read more...

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Tour the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Located in the heart of the Financial District in a distinctive Italian Renaissance-revival style building, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York boasts the largest depository gold reserve found anywhere in the world, larger than even Fort Knox, containing 7,000 tons of gold. One of 12 regional reserve banks in the Federal Reserve System, the building assumes a fortress-like presence you would expe read more...

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Cost: Free

Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History of Money

Money makes the world go round. Money makes the man, and money answers all things. Even time is money. We use it every day, we talk about it every day, but it remains hard to define what it is and how it works. This exhibition will show you the different shapes of money: coins, cowrie shells, salt, tokens, gold, paper money, credit cards and many more. It illustrates how money is first and fore read more...

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Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges

Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow tells the story of Jewish professors who fled Nazism and came to America in the 1930s and 1940s, finding teaching positions at historically black colleges and universities. The exhibition explores the encounter between these scholars and their students, and their impact on each other, the Civil Rights Movement, and American society.

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Jewish Life A Century Ago

A visit to the Museum's core exhibition begins with an exploration of the history and customs of Jewish communities around the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. The distinct threads of Jewish life around the world as they depict the vibrant communities of that time are intertwined with artifacts and photographs. Learn about how and where Jews lived, their rich and diverse traditions, the read more...

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Jewish Renewal

Following the Holocaust, the Jewish people emerged to renew and repair their lives. While mourning characterized the years that follow the war, there is the triumph of the founding of the State of Israel, and the optimism of flourishing Jewish communities in the United States, and throughout the world. The continuity of Jewish heritage is distinguished by the same principles that existed before th read more...

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The War Against The Jews

The Museum's second floor tells the story of Europe's Jews confronting hatred and violence, of communities coping with persecution and isolation, and of the struggle to endure the unimaginable. Above all, it is a story of men and women who resolutely fought to preserve their humanity and their heritage. In these galleries, short films present the testimonies of those who lived through the Holocaus read more...

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Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française

Woman of Letters tells the remarkable story of a writer driven to create, of a mother and her daughters, of memory and identity, of legacy and loss. A Russian-born Jewish author, Irène Némirovsky quickly rose to literary celebrity in her adopted France. But her fame and accomplishment, and even her conversion to Catholicism, were not enough to save her when war came; she was deported to Auschwitz read more...

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Andrea Carlson

Minnesota-based artist Andrea Carlson (Anishinaabe/European) creates works that reflect cultural narratives and stories while offering a sharp commentary on museums, collections, and contemporary storytelling. Her works on paper have a metaphoric and literal biting edge, with sharp lines and layered meanings. This exhibition features more than twenty of Carlson's works, including new and large-sca read more...

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Annie Pootoogook

This exhibition features thirty-nine drawings of renowned artist Annie Pootoogook (Inuit), chronicling social, economic, and cultural realities of the Canadian North. A winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Prize in 2006 and chosen to participate in documenta 12 in 2007, Pootoogook depicts in her works the mundane as well as the intimate, while expressing a wide range of content and emotions.

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Beauty Surrounds Us

March 31, 2010 This exhibition of 77 works from the museum's collection will inaugurate the new Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures. Beauty Surrounds Us features an elaborate Quechua girl's dance outfit, a Northwest Coast chief's staff with carved animal figures and crest designs, Seminole turtle shell dance leggings, a conch shell trumpet from pre-Columbian Mexico, a Navajo saddle blank read more...

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Cost: Free

Native American Arts and Artifacts

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Ranging from ancient Paleo-Indian points to contemporary fine arts, the collections include work read more...

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Big Onion Walking Tours: Historic Lower Manhattan

A wide-ranging tour exploring the history, architecture, and people of Lower Manhattan - the birthplace of New Amsterdam and now the world's financial center. Stops could include: Trinity Church, and sites associated with 18th-century slave uprising, J. P. Morgan, Alexander Hamilton, Cass Gilbert, George Washington, Abbie Hoffman, and others.

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Daily Life Collection

Besides momentous events of the Revolutionary Era and New York City history, Fraunces Tavern's collection represents daily life of 18th-century Americans. Objects that were once common are now the most rare. Utilitarian items were often broken or used until they were worn out and then tossed away. Cooking pots, bottles, pipes, and other such items are now treasured at Fraunces Tavern Museum. An read more...

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Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom

See where the story of your freedom began. Magna Carta will make its appearance at historic Fraunces Tavern® Museum in New York City from September 15 - December 15, 2009. In the almost 800 years since it was drawn up this remarkable copy of Magna Carta has journeyed from its home at Lincoln Cathedral in England to New York just twice. The first time was for the 1939 World's Fair. The second ti read more...

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New York Collection

The collection captures an important portion of New York City's past, which is as colorful and vibrant as its present. What began as New Amsterdam, a rather insignificant Dutch outpost, became New York in 1664. Under English rule the city took on greater importance as part of Britain's vast trade system and as a strategic military base for conflicts with France for control of North America. By 177 read more...

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Revolution

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