NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Lefferts Homestead Historic House Museum

Brooklyn

The original Lefferts home, built before the American Revolution in the farming village of Flatbush, was burned down during the Battle of Long Island in 1776. The structure that now stands is a circa-1783 replacement, moved to its present location in 1918.

New-York Historical Society

Manhattan

The New-York Historical Society is the city's oldest museum and a research library. In 2011 it added a children's museum with sections on famous figures and ordinary children (newsboys and newsgirls, for instance) and a children's history library.

Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island

With nine permanent exhibits, walk-in Up4Art weekend workshops, Kidz Cook workshops, as well as Tot's Time Plus and more, the Staten Island Children's Museum has been exercising children's minds, bodies and imaginations since 1974. It's located in the Snug Harbor campus of arts attractions.

World Savvy

Brooklyn

Through the Global Youth Media Arts Program, youth ages 10-18 use their own lives and communities as a platform to examine a global theme—Immigration and Identity—using visual arts, performance and media.