NY City Museum is Wonderful
The Museum of the City of New York is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of the city of New York. Through wit, wonder and immersive exhibits, they do a complex city justice. On exhibit through the end of September is “Another Wonderland,” which showcases the rescue and restoration of New Deal era murals that feature Lewis Carroll’s Alice and friends at city landmarks. The murals were originally in a now shuttered city children’s hospital on the Lower East Side. Once the exhibition is done the murals will be located to another city hospital in that neighborhood.
Also, an ongoing exhibit is “He Built This City.” Queens-born artist Joe Macken began building a scale model of the city in 2004. Twenty-one years later he finished the 50 × 27 foot balsa and wood architectural portrait.
Other ongoing exhibits include “The Occupied City,” an immersive journey into New York during the Revolutionary War and “New York at Its Core,” that questions what makes New York New York.
