NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

This is the place for all parents who have ever wished their kids could hear and see the radio and television shows they loved as children. Using one of the museum's 96 consoles, viewers can track down anything from Howdy Doody and The Electric Company to the legendary Edward R. Murrow covering World War II or Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his "Fireside Chats." The museum has a collection of nearly 150,000 programs—including newscasts, public affairs programs, documentaries, performing arts programs, comedy and variety shows, sports, children's programming and commercial advertising—covering more than 70 years of television and radio history. Each year, the museum—using radio and television programs from the collection—organizes major exhibitions, screening and listening series, seminars and education classes that focus on topics of social, historical, popular or artistic interest.

• Directions: Subway: E, M to Fifth Avenue - 53rd Street; B, D, F to 47-50th Street - Rockefeller Center

• Archive
• Disability Access: Fully accessible; elevators available
• Disability Assistance: Assistive listening devices and more than 1,000 closed captioned television programs available
• Gift Shops: Books on radio and television, videotapes and cassettes of classic and current programs, media-oriented memorabilia including watches, pins and replicas of old-time radios, museum brochures, catalogs, posters, T-shirts and postcards
• Public Phone
• Reference Center: Open to the public, call for details
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