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The DiMenna Children’s History Museum at the New-York Historical Society hosts its fourth annual Family Benefit Party―Heroes in History! Parents and children (ages 4 – 14) will have the opportunity to meet historical figures and explore fascinating moments from history with fun, interactive activities:
o Learn how to be a spy for George Washington and Alexander Hamilton
o Join the Wright Brothers and design light-weight airplanes
o Marvel at a strongman and his superhuman feats of strength
o Forge a path to freedom with Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad
o Track Typhoid Mary using stealth detective work
o Tinker with circuits and hear from Thomas Edison about his incredible inventions
o Shout out your headlines with a band of newsies
o Take a high flying historical family portrait in our photo booth
Funds raised at the event help the New-York Historical Society and the DiMenna Children’s History Museum to continue providing exceptional opportunities for children and families to discover and explore our nation’s history. Through interactive museum experiences and unique family programming, as well as school programs serving students at their schools and in the Museum, the New-York Historical Society annually impacts over 40,000 family visitors, 200,000 New York City school students, and thousands of teachers.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
11 am – 2 pm
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at 77th Street, New York, NY 10024
Diana & Joe DiMenna, Brenda M. Earl, Richard Gilder & Lois Chiles, Lewis E. Lehrman, Margaret & Daniel S. Loeb, Caroline & Paul McCaffery, Mary Kathryn Navab, Pam & Scott Schafler
Maria & Frank Chiodi, Beth Carney & Joseph J. Struzziery
For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (212) 485-9240 or visit www.nyhistory.org/heroes.
ABOUT THE DIMENNA CHILDREN’S HISTORY MUSEUM
The DiMenna Children’s History Museum is a museum-within-a-museum that explores New York and American history through the eyes of children of the past. Occupying the New-York Historical Society’s entire lower level, it includes character-based pavilions, the Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library, interactive exhibits, and games. The DiMenna Children’s History Museum encourages children to identify with the people whose enterprise and creativity changed the course of our history. It also hosts a series of family programs, from Sunday story hours to arts and crafts. 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/Inclusion. 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.
New-York Historical presents two groundbreaking exhibitions on view now: Superheroes in Gotham (through February 21), sharing the fascinating, inspiring, and largely unknown history of superheroes in New York City and beyond; and Silicon City(through April 10), exploring New York’s pivotal role in launching the Digital Age.
