Museum Of The City Of New York

Collections care:the museum holds approximately 750,000 objects in its collection, with over 190,000 objects from our collections, now available as part of our ongoing digitization project and can be viewed on our website. In fy24 the museum continues to digitize its collection, updating the collection database and online portal, processing and administering photography requests, building and managing the shelby white & leon levy institutional archive. See schedule o for continuation.the museum acquired over 850 works in fy24, predominantly in photography but including noteworthy sculpture highlights, facilitated outgoing loans of 37 works to eleven institutions across the country. The numerous tasks performed by the department of nine people include attending to internal and external requests, overseeing new acquisitions (donations and purchases), updating the collection database and online portal, processing and administering photography requests, building and managing the shelby white & leon levy institutional archive, and overseeing mcny exhibition installations as well as internal and external loan requests. The collections department supports the collection committee and prepares materials for their regular meetings. In march, the department worked on a grant request to the national endowment of humanities for digitizing the look collection, which will help make that collection more accessible.in fy24, the collection department oversaw the installation and loans of works of the following temporary exhibitions at mcny: byzantine bemb: new york by manny vega, preservation in progress, changing face of democracy: shirley chisholm at 100, as well as rotations for the on-going exhibitions, activist new york and new york at its core: port city and world city. These exhibitions included fifty-four loan requests from other museums. The collections department also managed the loan of thirty-seven works to eleven institutions across the country, for which the museum brought in $90,744. The collections department continued its support of the robust acquisition program, which in fy24 included 888 works through donations and purchasing. Rights & reproductions, a division of the collections department, net $73,372 in fy24. The distribution of images of the collection and addition of new photography on the portal also helps to make the collection more accessible to the wider public.in november 2023, the collection department saw the departure of the director of collections to pursue a new opportunity in toronto. As a result, members of the department took on the additional work while the institution searched for a new director of collections.

Educational programs:education remains at the core of the museum's mission. Students, educators, families, and community members from across the five boroughs and around the world take part in the schwarz center's educational programming each year. Our programs focus on inquiry-based learning and hands-on experiences to engage learners in examining the city's past so that they may understand the present and envision their role in shaping the future.see schedule o for continuation. In fy24, the schwarz center continued its' rebuild and expansion from programmatic reductions during the covid pandemic and closures. The schwarz center continued to rebuild its teaching team and strengthen its core programming and operations post-pandemic. In october 2023, the museum re-launched a full roster of field trips, which significantly increased the schwarz center's attendance. In fy2024, the schwarz center reached over 32,000 students, teachers, and families through onsite and virtual programming9,800 participated in onsite programs, 2,700 joined virtual programs led by museum educators featuring our collections and exhibitions, and nearly 20,000 visited the museum to explore our galleries across nearly 700 fields trips.education remains at the core of the museum's mission. The museum's educational programs and materials complement classroom learning and intentionally align with common core and nyc public school scope and sequence guidelines by using artifacts and primary sources from our exhibitions and collections to develop students' skills in historical thinking, artifact analysis, and visual inquiry. Thousands of students, educators, families, and community members from across the five boroughs and around the world take part in the schwarz center's educational programming each year. Our programs focus on inquiry-based learning and hands-on experiences to engage learners in examining the city's past so that they may understand the present and envision their role in shaping the future.the schwarz center offered on-site and virtual trips that utilize museum-developed content and hands-on learning to explore topics that are distinctly new york. Led by museum educators, these programs are 60 to 90 minutes and are designed for individual school groups of up to 35 students each. All programs feature images, text, and content from current and archival exhibitions, and in fy2024 the center prioritized creating new art-making workshops and other engagements to ensure each field trip experience includes a hands-on activity.teachers can select from a full menu of field trip options that engage students in the museum's exhibitions while supporting school curriculum and the development of skills including socio-emotional learning, historical inquiry, and visual analysis. Thirteen onsite and five virtual field trip options were offered this past year, with four developed around our centennial exhibition plus a new bilingual field trip and pk-2 holiday option. These include field trips connected to the ongoing exhibitions new york at its core and activist new york and temporary exhibitions such as byzantine bemb: new york by manny vega and our multi-gallery centennial exhibition, this is new york: 100 years of the city in art and pop culture, which opened in may 2023. In fy2024, over 19,000 students and teachers from 301 schools participated in 692 pk-12 field trips, including guided onsite (598), guided virtual (3), and self-guided (91) field trips.two major highlights for fy2024 were our multi-gallery centennial exhibition, this is new york: 100 years of the city in art and pop culture (may 2023 - july 2024). In connection with this exhibition, the schwarz center developed and offered four unique field trips that welcomed a total of 129 groups. The other was the opening of the byzantine bembe: manny vega exhibition which promoted the development of our first bilingual tours for school groups. New york by manny vega: art in el barrio / arte in el barrio (grades k-12) is centered around artist manny vega's mosaics and murals, which adorn street walls, subway stations, cultural centers, and business facades throughout nyc and in the museum's own neighborhood, el barrio. As part of a new institutional priority to develop bilingual exhibitions and educational programming, this field trip is offered in either spanish or english, or as a bilingual experience the first such field trip by the museum. In fy2024, 43 groups participated in this field trip with a total of 1,097 program attendees.in fy2024, we continued our series of virtual student workshops to complement the schwarz center's work on the hidden voices: untold stories of new york city history curriculum guide that the museum developed in partnership with the new york city department of education (nyc doe). The hidden voices of new york city series reached nearly 2,733 virtual participants across a total of 15 online sessions. The museum offers these monthly online workshops for free for teachers and students in grades 3-5. The workshop series highlights and honors the individual and collective experiences of a diverse swath of new yorkers and features the stories of historical figures from nyc. The schwarz center serves pk-12 educators and administrators through lectures, workshops, week-long courses, and collaborations with the nyc department of education. All but one of our programs a credit-bearing course are free to participants. In fy2024, the museum served 858 educators through 29 professional learning programs, which included both single-day events and multi-session programs. The museum is an accredited provider of professional learning with both the nyc doe and the new york state education department, and eligible program participants receive continuing education credits. The museum has long served as a steadfast resource for our city's teachers, and programming for educators continued to offer opportunities for engagement with the museum's content, scholarship, and leadership throughout the past year.fy2024 saw the museum deepen its commitment to programming for families and community. The core tenant of this family & intergenerational programming is to support new york city youth, families, and community members through specific channels designed to connect with our audiences in ways that are effective, equitable, creative, and engaging. This year, the museum offered 94 included-with-admission family & intergenerational learning programs, reaching 8,224 attendees. In addition, 45 other education programs (family & intergenerational and offsite programs) served 573 individuals.beginning in the summer of 2023, the museum launched a new series of family & community art-making programs: drop-in programming on weekends and school holidays for local children, families, and community members to participate in an art-making activity, explore the museum's galleries, and tap into their own self-expression while finding a sense of connection and community with other participants. Each year, the schwarz center produces kids guides for the galleries, online lesson plans for teachers, and other educational resources. In fy2024, the schwarz center completed the multi-year project people of new amsterdam, which features the profiles of seven individuals from the dutch colonial period. Intended to be used by educators, but free to access for all, these stories provide insights into the histories of trade, politics, slavery, gender roles, and ecology in the region. Accompanying insights from scholars provide additional context for the forces shaping the lives of these individuals and address the legacies of the colonial period today. The kids guide for the museum's this is new york centennial exhibition featured prompts for children to create fill-in-the-blank stories, draw their favorite nyc destination to visit, learn about featured artists and artworks, and more. Over 4,800 of the printed guides were distributed within the gallery and shared with visiting families.