MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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Organizations Filed Purposes: THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOSTERS THE UNDERSTANDING OF DISTINCTIVE NATURE OF URBAN LIFE IN THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL METROPOLIS. IT ENGAGES VISITORS BY CELEBRATING, DOCUMENTING, AND INTERPRETING THE CITY'S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

TO CELEBRATE AND INTERPRET THE CITY, EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ITS DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER, ESPECIALLY ITS HERITAGE OF DIVERSITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND TRANSFORMATION.

Exhibitions that Closed in FY19 (July 1, 2018 June 30, 2019): Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela (May 17 - October 28, 2018) With some 75 buildings to his credit, Rosario Candela played a major role in shaping the architectural lagacy of 20th century New York - the distinctive "prewar" streetscapes of Park and Fifth Avenues and Sutton Place in particular. Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela revisited the setback terraces and neo-Georgian and Art Deco ornament of Candela-designed high-rise apartments. His buildings established new standards of chic urban living for some of New York's wealthiest citizens and still rank among the most prized in the city, almost a century after they were built. Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs (May 3, 2018 - January 6, 2019) Stanley Kubrick was just 17 when he sold his first photograph to the pictorial magazine Look in 1945. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, and capturing the pathos of ordinary life with a sophistication that belied his young age. Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs featured more than 120 photographs by Kubrick from the Museums Look Magazine archive, an unparalleled collection that includes 129 photography assignments and more than 12,000 negatives from his five years as a staff photographer. For any fan of Kubrick's films, the exhibition explored a formative phase in the career of one of the 20th centurys most renowned motion picture directors. Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York (November 10, 2017 - September 23, 2018) Presented to mark the 40th anniversary of the pioneering Public Art Fund, Art in the Open highlighted works that have transformed both the public spaces of the city as well as public expectation of the role and potential of art that exists outside of the traditional confines of museums and galleries. The exhibition featured renderings, models, photographs, and video footage tracing the creation of public artworks by such artists as Red Grooms, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Kara Walker. Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics (October 11, 2017 - August 5, 2018) Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics traced womens political activism in New York City from the struggle to win the vote, through the 20th century, and into our own times. Beginning with the long battle for womens voting rights that culminated in 1917 statewide and 1920 nationally, the exhibition highlighted women at the center of New Yorks politics over the course of 100 years. It featured a diverse range of activists both familiar and lesser known, the battles they fought, and the many issues they championed. Exhibitions that Opened in FY19 (July 1, 2018 June 30, 2019): Rebel Women: Defying Victorianism (July 17, 2018January 6, 2019) Rebel Women: Defying Victorianism explored the lives Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American New York who refused to get off a segregated trolley in 1854; professionals like Hetty Green, a wealthy businesswoman and broker branded the "Witch of Wall Street and working women like Helen Jewett, New York's most prominent courtesan - all of whom challenged the Victorian ideal of decorous femininity. Featuring photographs, garments, paintings, and prints from the Museum's collection, the exhibition brought to light the compelling and often untold stories of the city's independent, unconventional, and path-breaking women who made an indelible impact on New York's society, culture, and economy by the turn of the 20th century. Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis (September 14, 2018April 28, 2019) Humans and microbes have always co-habited, and their relationship has had a profound influence on human history - especially in cities, a crossroads for the movements of people, goods, and germs. Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis explored the complex story of New Yorks long battle against infectious disease. It revealed how our understanding of contagion has changed us physically, socially, and culturally and shed light on the surprising interplay between people and pathogens in an urban context. Germ City featured a hybrid gallery and library where visitors could view historical artifacts, contemporary artworks, a curated selection of books, and digital interactives. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with The New York Academy of Medicine and Wellcome as part of Wellcomes international project Contagious Cities. Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers (October 26, 2018March 24, 2019) New York City's nine "Chinatowns" are collectively home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia. Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers featured the work of three photographers who have spent years documenting the lives of Chinese New Yorkers: Thomas Holton, Annie Ling, and An Rong Xu. Together, the works of these photographers provided a window into the complex realities of immigrant life in New York City. This exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Museum of Chinese in America exhibition Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980's by Bud Glick. A City for Corduroy: Don Freemans New York (November 21, 2018June 23, 2019) The adventures of Corduroy, the stuffed bear in green overalls, have been delighting children and adults for half a century - ever since Don Freemans childrens classic was published in 1968. But few know about Freemans long career as an artist who documented New York. A City for Corduroy: Don Freemans New York presented the gamut of Freemans New York work, from his lively and humane depictions of ordinary New Yorkers and the city in the 1930s, to his illustrated scenes of the Broadway backstage, to his childrens books inspired by the city, including not just the Corduroy books but also Pet of the Met and Hattie the Backstage Bat. The exhibition featured drawings, paintings, publications, and prints, as well as the artists original studies and sketches of Corduroy and other characters. PhantomFashion30 (October 31November 30, 2018) To celebrate 30 years of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, the Council of Fashion Designers of America commissioned 30 different members to express their unique takes on the iconic Phantom mask. The Museum hosted this special installation featuring designs by Badgley Mischka, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Kenneth Cole, Marchesa, Nicole Miller, Vivienne Tam, Swarovski, and more. In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend (January 31September 22, 2019) In 1947, Jackie Robinson made history when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American in Major League Baseball. In honor of the centennial of Robinsons birth, In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend featured some 30 images of Robinson and the Dodgers taken for Look magazine. Along with these stunning black-and-white images from the Museum's collection, many never before seen, the exhibition featured memorabilia and rare footage of the Robinson family, as well as the published magazines, which provide a window into the media's portrayal of this groundbreaking figure through the lens of the days popular picture press. The exhibition was a co-presentation of the Museum of the City of New York and the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History (March 14October 14, 2019) Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History traced the bikes transformation of urban transportation and leisure and explored the extraordinary diversity of cycling cultures in the city, past and present. The exhibition revealed the complex, creative, and often contentious relationship between New York and the bicycle, while underscoring the importance of cycling as the city confronts climate change, energy scarcity, and population growth in the years to come. Featuring rare vintage bicycles, documentary footage, ephemera documenting cycling various "golden ages,an array of historic and contemporary photography, the exhibition explored the technology, cultures, and landscapes of urban cycling and considered the debates over bicycles in the citys streets and parks, past, present, and future. City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York (May 1, 2019January 5, 2020) For some two centuries, working people's movements have shaped New York - and vice versa. Some of the first labor organizations in the country were formed by the city's artisans in the early 19th century, and some of the nation's foremost labor leaders have been New Yorkers, from Samuel Gompers and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to A. Philip Randolph, David Dubinksy, and Sidney Hillman. But working New Yorkers have also struggled with each other

During FY2019, the City Museum saw virgorous activity in collections management, and received generous support to accomplish projects with long-term impact for our audiences. Collection assessments are ongoing in several departments, including costumers and textiles, manuscripts and ephemera, paintings, and theater materials. We are continuing to inventory and catalog objects from all collections, including sculpture, furniture and decorative arts, photography, and toys, in addition to the deprtments previously mentioned with active assessments underway - ensuring that every object had an accurate record in the Museum database. With an estimated three-quarter million collection objects in total - from dance cards and menus to a police wagon and model of the Empire State Building - the Museum now has records for over half a million, and during this period 19,313 objects were catalogued. As part of this ongoing work, we digitized 6,839 objects with a supporting 20,319 digital images. Over 3,253 new catalog records are available, expanding public and scholarly access to our holdings. A major project in FY2019 included processing the LOOK Magazine Collection, creating catalog records and scanning reference images for over 2,400 assignments, with nearly $97,000 in support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The Museum continued to make progress to catalog and digitize the scripts, scores, and published sheet music in the George M. Cohan collection on completed a project funded by an $129,467 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and work began on the conservation, rehousing, cataloging, and digitization of approximately 700 Theatrical Broadsides, with over $145,000 to support from the NEH. Projects completed in FY2019 included the project to process, catalog, and digitize the Edward Floyd De Lancey family papers, with $50,000 support from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The Collections Department was fortunate to receive notification of two new grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), including over $185,000 to support digitization of select work captured by photographer John Vachon in the LOOK Magazine collection; and nearly $160,000 and processing, rehousing, cataloging, and digitization of approximately 8,000 Theatrical design drawings. We continued our online access by sharing 26 collections specific features to the "Stories" page of the Museum's main website to improve visibility, attracting 14,184 visits during the period. In addition, we continue to share new collections information via the "catablog" - online finding aids for research and scholarly access to previously inaccessible archival collections, which drew 6,962 visits. Over the past year, the Museum continued a major, multi-year initiative to catalog and digitize our rich collections and make them accessible on a user-friendly Collections Portal at collections.mcny.org where they may be studied and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Since the Portal launched in 2010, nearly 1.3 million unique visitors from every country in the world had visited the site by end of FY2019. The number of objects accessible online has grown significantly to over 210,000 tracking over 1.6 million page views during the period, alone. Continuing on previous years implementation of a collecting plan for photography, the theater collection, and costumes, the Museum approved a formal collecting plan for manuscripts and ephemera. As a natural outcome of our collections assessment, such plans establish criteria appropriate to our mandate, and provide a framework for considering new acquisitions in relation to objects already accessioned. During this period, the Museum acquired 1,844 objects for the collection, including: two silver pieces deigned form the Museums exhibition Silver then and Now by Wendy Yothers and Michael Gayk, five hundred and fifty-five photographs by Harvey Wang, ten photographs by Allan Tannebaum, seven photographs by Ruggero Rugarli, twenty-four photographs by Jeanette Beckman, two hats deigned by Bill Cunningham, and a b[urse designed by Judith Leiber and owned by Lilly Lawrence. The Collections Department has also significantly increased outgoing loan activity to other institutions in the past few years. During FY2019, 189 objects were loaned to 25 different institutions, including an engraving to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, two drawings by John Singer Sargent to the Morgan Library and Museum and then to the National Portrait Gallery, and a number of photographs by Berenice Abbott to two venues in Spain and one in Amsterdam. Additionally, the exhibition Mac Conner, A New York Life traveled to Upcountry History Museum in Greenville, South Carolina.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center In FY2019, the Center welcomed more than 46,500 students, teachers, and family members for field trips, out-of-school-time programs, professional development, and family programs. Field trips make up the bulk of the Schwarz Centers attendance, linking historical and contemporary topics pertaining to New York City to the New York City Department of Education Scope and Sequence for Social Studies and Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts in History. The two formats currently utilized to deliver these programs are: Gallery Programs, which provide 60-minute interactive tours of the Museums exhibitions, including special exhibitions and the Museums long-term exhibitions Activist New York and New York at Its Core; and 75-minute History Labs, which meet in the classrooms to offer a content-rich experience utilizing the Museums collections while focusing on core themes in New York City history. Hands-on and inquiry-based, programs led by full-time and per diem Museum Educators encourage children to reflect on what they have learned about the citys past, present, and future and to connect this new knowledge to classroom learning. During the summer months, the Center offers field trip programs for groups from summer camps, homeless shelters, and community centers throughout the tri-state area. In the 2018-19 (FY19) school year, the Schwarz Center served 1,187 groups comprised of 31,091 students and adult chaperones through field trips. Approximately 62% of field trip groups came from New York Citys largely underserved public schools, and about 8% of participants visited from New York Citys charter schools. Students roughly match the demographics of the public school system: 41% Hispanic, 26% African-American, 16% Asian, and 15% white, with nearly 73% qualifying as economically disadvantaged, according to the NYC Department of Education. With the support of a number of foundations and generous individuals, and our ongoing commitment to the East Harlem community, the Schwarz Center was able to offer 387 fee waivers to underserved school groups from the 5 boroughs - amounting to 32% of all field trips attendance for the 2018-19 school year. The Summer Internship Program in Museum Education continued to introduce disconnected and disadvantaged young adults to the study and practice of museum education through valuable professional experience working in a museum. THis year's cohort was again comprised of eight young adults ages 18-23 who were at a turning point in their lives - either lacking previous direction in school or job training or unable to afford post-secondary education. After a three-month orientation and training period, interns are taught the Museum's Summer Programs in July and August, and were responsible for assisting with weekday Family and Community Engagement Programs onsite and offsite and a four-week-long literacy program, Catching Up and Getting Ahead. In partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Center also offers Saturday Academy, a free SAT prep and American history course for approximately 350 students grades 8-12, that serves all five boroughs with priority seating for students from East Harlem. Free SAT materials helped students achieve higher scores on their exams. Over 60% percent of the students who took the SAT practice test at the end of Saturday Academy (and had scores for comparison) improved their scores and over 20% percent of the students who improved their scores increased by over 100 points. In March 2019, the Museum hosted the 29th annual New York City History Day, a multi-month citywide research program for middle and high school students that culminates in a student competition day featuring their final creative research projects. New York City History Day is the regional division of National History Day. Focused on the year's theme of "Triumph and Tragedy in History", the event drew over 1,000 attendees including 411 registered students who came from 36 different schools across all five boroughs. Students presented their projects and shared their knowledge and love of learning history throughout the day, presenting a broad range of topics from the Chicago Fire of 1871 to the development of the polio vaccine. New York City History Day welcomed over 132 volunteer judges - a record high for the museum. Since 2014, the Center has collaborated with the New York City Department of Education on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Camps for citywide elementary school students. In this program, students learn the art and skill of photography through studies of Central Park and other landmarks and sites around New York City. They develop their visual literacy through close looking, interacting with the Museums renowned photography collection, and through developing skills using digital cameras. The Museum participated as one of the partner sites in the New York City Department of Educations History by Design program. Participating afterschool groups visit the Museum as they prepare to curate their own exhibitions in school. In FY19, the Museum served 5,503 participants through Family and Community Engagement Programs, including 505 participants joining us from the citys shelters through a partnership with the Department of Homeless Services. The Center offered 79 days of programming in FY19, with only 26 of those serving 50 or fewer attendees. Having fewer events with a higher impact allows us to focus our marketing efforts and staff resources in a more sustainable way. Programs include the six-week NYC Tots series, an early childhood program for adults and children ages 2 to 4 years featuring song, play, gallery visits, hands-on object exploration, and art-making; Cultural Heritage Celebrations, which explore historical and contemporary topics relating to the diverse cultures of New York City such as the annual Native American Heritage Celebration, Herstory Day, Black Futures, and the LGBTQ Teen Summit. The Center served 3,800 teachers and administrators in FY19 through its robust Professional Learning programming, including specially designed lectures, workshops, week-long courses, and collaborations with the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). Teachers participated in thoughtful tours and workshops throughout the academic year, including programs on Breaking Boundaries in conjunction with the exhibition In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson. The Centers worked closely with the NYCDOE to produce supplementary curriculum material for the citys more than 1.1 million public school students. This included civics-focused lessons as part of the NYCDOEs Civics for All initiative and curriculum highlighting the featured individuals from New York at Its Core for the NYCDOEs project Hidden Voices. The Museum also continued to lead P-Credit courses as an approved host site by the NYCDOEs Afterschool and Professional Development Program. The Museum offers some of the mostly highly ranked courses in the city. These courses support teachers working towards a salary differential. Courses introduce educators from across the city to the Museum and provide rich and meaningful content through topics including Native New York: American Indians and Dutch New Amsterdam; New York at Its Core: Examining Our Citys Past, Present, and Future; Rhythm & Power: Dance, Immigration, and Community Action; and Capturing the City Through the Camera: Documenting New York's History. The Center also hosted its seventh annual Teaching Social Activism Conference inspired by the Museum's ongoing exhibition, Activist New York, in May 2019, with 374 educators, students, professors, community organizers, and activists in attendance (out of over 1,000 registrations) - continuing its yearly climb to reach its highest attendence yet. The 2019 theme of the conference was "Building Tomorrow". Educator and activist Annie Tan's inspiring keynote set the stage for 17 presentations, 14 gallery tours and teach-ins, and countless opportunities for networking, socializing, and engaging. In addition, a second afternoon keynote featured a panel discussion with youth leaders from Teens Take Charge. The Center convened a group of 8 educators to serve as the Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) for the conference. Under the guidance of the Center's staff, TAG members selected the 17 sessions from over 60 proposals and worked closely with the selected presenters to strengthen their presentations.

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