Since its founding in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has collected more than 32 million specimens relating to the natural world and human cultures. The Museum showcases its amazing treasures in the exhibit halls, and behind the scenes more than 200 scientists are at work making new discoveries. Millions of people from around the world visit the Museum each year.
O Metropolitan Museum of Art, conhecido informalmente como "The Met", é um museu de arte localizado na cidade de Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos, sendo um dos mais visitados museus do planeta.Fundado em 13 de abril de 1870, foi aberto ao público em 20 de fevereiro de 1872. É um dos maiores e mais importantes museus do mundo e abriga uma importante coleção de pintura europeia dos séculos XII-XX e obras da arte antiga e oriental. Estão também expostas nas suas salas pinturas e esculturas de artistas norte-americanos. São muito importantes as secções dedicadas a instrumentos musicais, armas e indumentária.O museu foi designado, em 24 de junho de 1986, um edifício do Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos bem como, na mesma data, um Marco Histórico Nacional.Em 2012 foi o segundo museu mais visitado do mundo, com.
Le Muséum américain d'histoire naturelle est l'un des grands musées de New York. Il est situé sur l’île de Manhattan dans le quartier de l’Upper West Side, au croisement de la et Central Park West, face à Central Park.Le musée, ouvert en décembre 1877, emploie plus de personnes et finance chaque année une centaine d’expéditions scientifiques.Quelques chiffres(D'après la brochure d'information du musée) 32 millions de spécimens et d'objets 3 millions de spécimens dans les collections de paléontologie des vertébrés 45 halls d'expositions permanentes 47 conservateurs et 200 chercheurs scientifiques 70 boursiers d'études supérieures et postdoctorales Deux laboratoires moléculaires Plus de 150 conférences, films, ateliers, démonstrations pour tout public chaque année
Museum Sejarah Alam Amerika adalah museum yang berada di sisi barat Central Park, Manhattan, New York, Amerika Serikat. Museum ini menempati Taman Theodore Roosevelt yang luasnya 7,3 hektare, dan terdiri dari 27 gedung yang bersambungan. Di dalamnya terdapat 45 ruang pameran permanen, planetarium, ruang pameran sementara, dan perpustakaan sejarah alam.Di museum ini bisa disaksikan asal usul manusia, opset hewan dari seluruh dunia, fosil dinosaurus, dan sejarah evolusi. Koleksi museum terdiri dari 32 juta spesimen dan artefak yang dipamerkan sedikit demi sedikit sesuai jadwal pameran.Museum ini didirikan pada tahun 1869 sebagai museum dan perpustakaan berdasarkan undang-undang Dewan Perwakilan Negara Bagian New York. Museum memiliki 225 staf ilmiah penuh waktu, dan mensponsori lebih dari 120 ekspedisi setiap tahunnya.SejarahMuseum ini menempati gedung bekas gudang senjata di Central Park sebelum dipindahkan ke lokasi sekarang pada tahun 1869. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (ayah Presiden Theodore Roosevelt) termasuk salah seorang pendiri museum bersama-sama dengan John David Wolfe, William T. Blodgett, Robert L. Stuart, Andrew H. Green, Robert Colgate, Morris K. Jesup, Benjamin H. Field, D. Jackson Steward, Richard M. Blatchford, J. Pierpont Morgan, Adrian Iselin, Moses H. Grinnell, Benjamin B. Sherman, A. G. Phelps Dodge, William A. Haines, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, Henry G. Stebbins, Henry Parish, dan Howard Potter.
81st Street–Museum of Natural History is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service. The B train provides additional service here on weekdays except nights.Station layoutThe station opened on September 10, 1932, and has four tracks and two side platforms. On this section of the line, the local tracks are stacked, uptown above downtown, and the express tracks are stacked in the same order to the east of them, so both platforms are on the west side, one above the other. The station is at Central Park West and 81st Street, rather than the major crosstown 79th Street (although an entrance also exists at this street) to accommodate the American Museum of Natural History, which largely fills the area of what was once called the Manhattan Square. The 79th Street Transverse Road, through Central Park, exits the park here. An underground entrance directly into the museum's lowest level is at the south end of the uptown (northbound or upper) platform.South of this station are storage/lay up tracks between the local and express tracks on each level. Both ends of the tracks merge with the express tracks, with switches to the local tracks.
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Andrew Carnegie built his mansion in 1903 and lived there until his death in 1919; his wife, Louise, lived there until her death in 1946. The building is now the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. The surrounding neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side has come to be called Carnegie Hill. The mansion was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966.HistoryThe land was purchased in 1898 in secrecy by Carnegie, further north than most mansions, in part to ensure there was enough space for a garden. He asked his architects Babb, Cook & Willard for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York". However, it was also the first American residence to have a steel frame and among the first to have a private Otis Elevator and central heating. His wife, Louise, lived in the house until she died in 1946.The Carnegie Corporation gave the house and property to the Smithsonian in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum opened there in 1976. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates handled the renovation into a museum in 1977. The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek, in 2001.
The Otto H. Kahn House was the New York City residence of Otto H. Kahn, a German financier and philanthropist. The mansion is located at 1 East 91st Street, in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side.
Convent of the Sacred Heart is an independent Roman Catholic all-girl school in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Teaching from pre-kindergarten all the way through to twelfth grade, it is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side at East 91st Street and Fifth Avenue.The school is housed in the former Otto H. Kahn House and James A. Burden House, both of which are New York City-Designated Landmarks.HistoryFounded in 1881 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic congregation established in France in 1800, the school is New York City’s oldest private school for girls. The school was originally housed in a Manhattan brownstone on Madison Avenue at East 54th Street.By the 1930s, the school had outgrown its Madison Avenue space and moved into the Kahn mansion. In 1940, the Society acquired the Burden mansion next door.Membership and accreditationIn addition to being a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart and a part of the global Network of Sacred Heart Schools, a worldwide network of over 150 schools committed to the mission of a Sacred Heart education, the school is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.
The Spence School is an American all-girls independent school in New York City, founded in 1892 by Clara B. Spence.OverviewSpence has about 688 students, with grades K-4 representing the Lower School, 5-8 representing the Middle School, and 9-12 representing the Upper School. Lower school average class sizes are 16-18 and middle and upper school average class sizes are 13-14. The student: teacher ratio is 7:1 and students of color in all grades make up approximately 33 percent of the student body. The school is popular with elite families in New York City. For the 2012-13 academic year, tuition is $40,000 for all grades K-12. Its sister schools are the all-girls Brearley School, the all-girls Chapin School and the all-boys Collegiate School, all in New York City. Forbes magazine ranked Spence ninth on its "America's Best Prep Schools" list in 2010.HistoryThe Spence School was founded in 1892 by Clara B. Spence, who was its head for 31 years. The school's motto is "non scholae sed vitae discimus" (Latin for "Not for school, but for life we learn"). The first building was located on New York City's West 48th Street.The school once had a boarding option, but all current girls are day students.Clara B. Spence described her school as: "A place not of mechanical instruction, but a school of character where the common requisites for all have been human feeling, a sense of humor and the spirit of intellectual and moral adventure."
The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture excluding Israeli museums, more than 30,000 objects. While its collection was established in 1904 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the museum did not open to the public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary. It focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. Its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, is supplemented by multiple temporary exhibitions each year.HistoryThe Warburg FamilyFelix M. Warburg and his brother Paul Warburg were international bankers in the early 20th Century who cultivated their fortunes at the New York banking firm Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. Felix and Paul moved to the United States in 1894 and Felix soon after married Freida Schiff, daughter of Jacob Schiff, a partner at the firm. Active in the Jewish community and philanthropy for most of his life, Felix organized the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies by combining 75 separate charities and organizations. He also served as the director of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America along with his father-in-law Jacob H. Schiff. By that time, the Warburg family had been living in the house since 1908 when construction that began two years prior was completed.
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion located on 1109 Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in the Upper East Side in New York City. Today the Jewish Museum of New York is housed there.HistoryThe six-story mansion, built in 1908 to designs by the architect C. P. H. Gilbert, was constructed for the philanthropist Felix M. Warburg (d.1937). The style is a revival of early French Renaissance architecture from the period Francois I.Warburg purchased from Perry Belmont a lot that measured 100 feet along Fifth Avenue, but required Gilbert to cover only half of it with his house, permitting a side lawn fifty feet across on the avenue. When it was completed, Warburg's father-in-law Jacob Schiff feared that it was ostentatious and would incite envy and anti-semitism. The Warburgs specified that they were pleased with Harry Sinclair's house and would like something similar, with details likewise drawn from the Late Gothic Hôtel de Cluny, Paris.His widow Frieda Schiff Warburg had tried to donate the house to a cultural institute but failed and finally sold the mansion in 1941 to developer Henry Kaufman and the architect Emery Roth, who intended to redevelop the site into an eighteen-story apartment building. After the developers' plans fell through, the mansion reverted to Mrs. Warburg.