Educating Tomorrow

Alice Austen House
Staten Island, NY
Upon entering the Alice Austen House Museum, students step back in time and enter the Victorian world that Alice lived in. After a brief introduction to Alice and her family's home, each child will be given a guidebook containing reproductions of photographs that Alice took more than 100 years ago.
www.aliceausten.org

American Immigrant Wall of Honor
Ellis Island
The largest Wall of names in the world, pays tribute to America's rich cultural heritage, celebrating American immigration from its earliest beginnings right up to present day. Over 600,000 names are currently inscribed, representing virtually every nationality, including those who endured forced migration from slavery as well as our earliest settlers, the American Indian.
www.wallofhonor.com

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Bronx, NY
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is owned by the City of New York, operated by the International Garden Club, Inc. and is a member of the Historic House Trust. A New York City Landmark, the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is one of the most beautifully located country seats in the City. The restoration of this Mansion is an outstanding example of effective preservation in New York City.
www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org

Boscobel
Garrison
Boscobel is situated on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point. The mansion and surrounding grounds have panoramic views of the Hudson Highlands and the river. The Hudson was recently named one of ten "American Heritage Rivers." The mansion dates from the early nineteenth century and contains one of the nation's leading collections of furniture and decorative arts from the Federal period, much of it made by premier New York cabinetmakers such as Duncan Phyfe and Michael Allison.
www.boscobel.org

Bowne House
Flushing
Bowne House (ca. 1661) is the oldest house in Queens and among the oldest in New York City. Bowne House has been a musuem since 1947.
www.bownehouse.org

Bronx County Historical Society
Bronx
Guided tours of The Society's historic house museums provide a unique experience in Bronx history and in our American heritage. At the Museum of Bronx History, located in the Valentine Varian House which was built around 1758, students enter a charming fieldstone farmhouse that was a part of Revolutionary War history.
www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org

Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn
Museum programs at Brooklyn Historical Society are age-appropriate explorations of their new exhibit, Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn. Museum programs are designed to meet NYS learning standards and reinforce Core Curriculum understandings.
www.brooklynhistory.org

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Cold Spring Harbor
www.cshwhalingmuseum.org

Conference House
Staten Island
www.theconferencehouse.org

Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Manhattan
ndm.si.edu

Deep Hollow Ranch
Montauk, NY
Deep Hollow Ranch lies at the eastern most tip Long Island where ranching has been a way of life for some 350 years.
www.deephollowranch.com

Ellis Island Museum of Immigration
Ellis Island
www.ellisisland.org

Foundry School Museum
Cold Spring
www.pchs-fsm.org

Fraunces Tavern Museum
Manhattan
www.frauncestavernmuseum.org

Gracie Mansion
Manhattan
www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/gracie.html

Harbor Defense Museum
Brooklyn, NY
Nestled within the heart of Fort Hamilton in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the Harbor Defense Museum's mission is to preserve the history and evolution of New York City's coastal defense systems. As the only Army Museum in New York City, the Harbor Defense Museum has acquired a fine collection of military artifacts from the Revolutionary War to World War II.
www.harbordefensemuseum.com

John Jay Homestead
Katonah
www.johnjayhomestead.org

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Manhattan
www.tenement.org

Lyndhurst
Tarrytown
www.lyndhurst.org

Morris-Jumel Mansion
Manhattan
www.morrisjumel.org

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Manhattan, NY
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden transports the visitor back to the days when midtown Manhattan was a country escape for New Yorkers living in the crowded city at the southern tip of the island. New York City's only surviving day hotel, this unique museum brings this bygone era of old New York alive for children and adults alike. The Museum has a fine collection of American furniture and decorative arts, costumes, quilts and textiles, and works on paper including early American and New York City historical archives and documents.
www.mvhm.org

Museum of the City of New York
Manhattan
The Frederick A. O. Schwarz Children's Center at the Museum of the City of New York offers programs that reinforce New York City history content and fulfill the NYS Standards for Social Studies. Enroll your class in an innovative and exciting hands-on program at the Museum of the City of New York while fulfilling the NYS Standards for Social Studies in grades K-8.
www.mcny.org

Museum Village
Monroe, NY
www.museumvillage.org

New Windsor Cantonment
Vails Gate
nysparks.state.ny.us/sites/info.asp?siteID=18

New York City Fire Museum
Manhattan
www.nycfiremuseum.org

Old Merchant's House
Manhattan
www.merchantshouse.com

Oyster Bay Historical Society
Oyster Bay
www.oysterbayhistory.org/auction/buildingfund.html

Philipsburg Manor
Tarrytown
www.hudsonvalley.org

Philipse Manor Hall
Yonkers
www.philipsemanorfriends.org

Queens Historical Society
Flushing
www.queenshistoricalsociety.org

Raynham Hall Museum
Oyster Bay
www.raynhamhallmuseum.org

Historic Richmond Town
Staten Island
www.historicrichmondtown.org

Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay
www.nps.gov/sahi

Sea Cliff Village Museum
Sea Cliff
www.seacliff-ny.gov/

South Street Seaport Museum
Manhattan
www.southstseaport.org

St. Paul's Church National Historic Site
Mount Vernon
www.nps.gov/sapa

Statue of Liberty
Liberty Island, New York/New Jersey
www.nps.gov/stli/pphtml/planyourvisit.html

Stony Point Battlefield
Stony Point
nysparks.state.ny.us/sites/info.asp?siteID=27

Suffolk County Marine Museum
West Sayville
counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/Vanderbilt/Vanderbilt.htm

Sunnyside
Irvington
www.bigapplecircus.org

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Manhattan
www.bigapplecircus.org

Van Cortlandt Manor
Croton-on-Hudson
www.bigapplecircus.org

Vanderbilt Mansion
Hyde Park
www.bigapplecircus.org

Walt Whitman Birthplace
Huntington Station
www.bigapplecircus.org

Washington's Headquarters
Newburgh
www.bigapplecircus.org

Young-Morris Historic Site
Poughkeepsie
www.bigapplecircus.org