The Museum of the city of new York, located on Fifth Avenue, near Museum mile, is both an art gallery and history Museum. He talks about how it was created, developed and grew new York.

The five-storey building in the neo-Georgian style of dark red brick with white trim, facing Central Park, designed by the Joseph Friedlander in 1932 specifically for the Museum. There are about 750 thousand exhibits – prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes, paintings, sculptures, books, manuscripts and even toys.

Among the exhibits there are unique – for example, chair Sarah Repel. This simple, somewhat coarse, the chair of the XVII century, made of walnut wood, was Sarah Repel – it is believed that she was the first white Christian child born in 1625 in Fort orange, the first permanent Dutch settlement in America.

About how started new York, tell maps, watercolors, engravings from the mid-seventeenth century. Paintings by Ralph Bleykloka, child of Hasama, Asher Durand, Reginald Marsh represent the views of new York, more than a hundred paintings and prints depict local Harbor (American marine painter James Butterworth, Thomas Birch, Gordon Grant).

Widely represented family and personal papers, letters, chronicling how the story of individuals intertwined with the history of the city. Numerous photographs, negatives and daguerreotypes show changes of landscape and life. The construction of skyscrapers, the Great depression, new York during the Second world war and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – all this is reflected in portraits and landscape photographers.

If the tourist is boring to watch photos and documents for real estate, he can see a collection of costumes and textiles. It includes over 25 thousand items – clothes, shoes, umbrellas, hats, fashionable accessories, jewelry. You can see, for example, that wore in 1860 to a ball in honor of the Prince of Wales, in 1883, to a ball at Vanderbilt or in 1966 – on the famous black and white ball Truman Capote at the Plaza".

The Museum houses one of the most significant collections of the new York furniture of the XVIII and XIX centuries, as well as silver and Chinese porcelain. Huge theater collection consists of tens of thousands of folders containing posters, contracts, letters, autographs, sheet music, newspaper clippings, photos, reviews, and obituaries.

Thematic galleries devoted to the history of firefighting, the trade of the port. A separate gallery is filled with toys, starting from the XVIII century to the present day: Dollhouse, dolls, trains, games and trinkets.

Of great interest for tourists are rooms Rockefeller – donated by John D. Rockefeller, Junior furniture has helped to furnish several rooms in exactly the way it was in his father's house. Luxury furniture from cherry, maple, walnut, inlaid with mother of pearl, marble, gives an idea of the environment in which he lived first in the world a dollar millionaire.