MUSEUM

New York Historical Society

The New York Historical Society was for us a relatively unknown museum.  It has an 18 minute movie that is a wonderful introduction for any visitor to New York City.  It is immediately adjacent to the American Museum of Natural History.

The museum owns a wonderful collection of Audubon paintings.

The description and this globe were spectacular.

The development of the atomic bomb was known as the "Manhattan Project."

The display shows the various sites around New York City where materials were gathered and stored, research occurred, and the scientists prepared for the move to Los Alamos for creation of the first nuclear explosion.

Interestingly, one of the sites in New York used in the Manhattan Project is immediately across the street from where we go to church at Marble Collegiate.