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Timescapes: A Multi-Media Portrait of New York

ManhattanOngoing

This 25-minute media presentation on multiple screens grants a view into the history of New York City. With narration by Stanley Tucci, the screens turns back time, allowing audiences to see how the city has changed as it has made its way from a Dutch port town to one of the busiest metropolises in the world.

• New York Interiors

  Museum of the City of New York

  ManhattanOngoing

  The rooms in this exhibition illustrate the decorative arts throughout New York's history.

• Timescapes: A Multi-Media Portrait of New York

  Museum of the City of New York

  ManhattanOngoing

  This 25-minute media presentation on multiple screens grants a view into the history of New York City. With narration by Stanley Tucci, the screens turns back time, allowing audiences to see how the city has changed as it has made its way from a Dutch port town to one of the busiest metropolises in the world.

• On the Move: Transportation Toys from the Permanent Collection Ongoing

  Museum of the City of New York

  ManhattanOngoing

  On the Move is a special installation of toy and miniature vehicles from the museum's permanent collection that not only suggest the lives of the children who played with them but also reveal how transportation evolved and changed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

  Museum of the City of New York

  ManhattanTues, Oct 25, 2011 – Mon, Feb 20, 2012

  Cecil Beaton: The New York Years brings together extraordinary photographs, drawings and costumes by Beaton to chronicle his impact on the city’s cultural life. Beaton’s relentless energy and curiosity spurred him to pursue new fields, from fashion and portrait photography to costume and scenic design for the stage.

• The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011

  Museum of the City of New York

  ManhattanTues, Dec 6, 2011 – Sun, April 15, 2012

  This exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid.