DiMenna Children’s History Museum at New-York Historical Society to Host its Third Annual Family Benefit Party Saturday, January 24, 2015 from 11AM until 2PM
What:
The DiMenna Children’s History Museum at the New-York Historical Society is having its third annual Family Benefit Party ― Ticket to History!Parents and their children (ages 4 - 14) will explore transportation innovations by:
o flying through NYC’s skyscrapers on a Flight Simulator;
o designing and building 3-D fantasy vehicles—combine aspects of planes, trains, cars, blimps, boats, etc.;
o constructing and racing sail boats;
o building a map the Transcontinental Railroad;
o re-enacting the life of a colonial-era sailor;
o interviewing conductors, engineers, and railroad workers;
o hearing Nellie Bly’s stories of her round-the-world travel;
o decorating an historic vehicle used in NY over the past 400 years;
o taking home a memory of the day with a Green Screen historical family portrait.
Why:
The event will help the New-York Historical Society and the DiMenna Children’s History Museum to continue to provide one-of-a-kind opportunities for children and families to discover our nation's history. Through interactive museum experiences and unique family programming, as well as school programs serving students in school and in the museum, the New-York Historical Society annually serves more than 40,000 family visitors, 200,000 New York City school students, and thousands of teachers. In addition, the Family Benefit helps the New-York Historical Society care for a priceless collection, made fully accessible to the public.
Event Chairs:
Diana & Joe DiMenna, Scott Bessent & John Freeman, Brenda Earl,
Lise & Michael Evans, Carolyn Katz & Michael Goldstein, Margaret Munzer Loeb & Daniel Loeb, Mary Kathryn & Alex Navab
Event
Co-Chairs:
Maria & Frank Chiodi, Ziel Feldman, Caroline & Paul McCaffery, Zir Meir, Tiffany & Claus Moller, Beth Carney & Josh Struzziery, Nancy Lazar & George Zachar
Tickets:
$75 Child, $150 Adult. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (212) 485-9240 or e-mail DCHM@nyhistory.org.
ABOUT THE DIMENNA CHILDREN'S HISTORY MUSEUM
The DiMenna Children’s History Museum is a museum-within-a-museum and occupies the New-York Historical Society’s entire lower level. It covers 350 years of New York and American history and includes character-based pavilions, interactive exhibits and digital games, and the Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library. Families explore and learn together, through visiting the museum and participating in intergenerational family learning programs. All ages can enjoy and learn in the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, but the exhibits are targeted at age 8-13.
ABOUT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society has a mission to explore the richly layered history of New York City and State and the country, and to serve as a national forum for the discussion of issues surrounding the making and meaning of history. New York Historical is recognized for engaging the public with deeply researched and far-ranging exhibitions, such as Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America; Slavery in New York; Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society; Grant and Lee in War and Peace; Lincoln and New York; The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society; Nueva York; Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn; WWII & NYC; The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution, and Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusionwhich is currently on view through April 19, 2015. Supporting these exhibitions and related education programs is one of the world's greatest collections of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of the United States and New York.
