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A Certificate for a Family Membership to the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library

New-York Historical Society Museum & Library is located at:
170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way/77th Street, NYC

Family Membership Level Benefits:
- Unlimited free admission for two adults and up to four children under 18
- Invitations to members-only events
- 10% off at the Museum Store, Parliament, Storico
- Empire State Reciprocal Program Membership
- Invitation to Thanksgiving Eve Family Celebration and other select Family Events
throughout the year
- Opportunity to host a Birthday Party

Current Special Exhibition:

Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution
February 14 – August 23, 2020

The New-York Historical Society presents the rock & roll world of Bill Graham (1931–1991), one of the most influential concert promoters of all time. Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution explores the life and work of the legendary music impresario who worked with the biggest names in rock music—including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones—and launched the careers of countless music luminaries at his famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the Fillmore East in New York City. 

Organized by the Skirball Cultural Center, which debuted the exhibition in Los Angeles, this comprehensive retrospective of Graham’s life and career explores some of the 20th century’s momentous cultural transformations through the lens of rock & roll. Showcasing more than 300 objects—including rock memorabilia, photographs, and concert posters—the New-York Historical presentation highlights Graham’s personal connections to New York, beginning with a site-specific installation of "The Joshua Light Show," the trailblazing liquid light show conceived in 1967 by multimedia artist Joshua White that served as a psychedelic backdrop to Graham’s concert productions in New York. 

Unique to New-York Historical is a special, immersive audio experience, providing a musical tour through the exhibition with songs by rock superstars Aerosmith, Blondie, David Bowie, Cream, the Doors, Janis Joplin, Tom Petty, and Neil Young, among others.

The New-York Historical Society Museum

As the oldest museum in New York City—predating even the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years—our Museum is home to some of the city’s and nation’s beloved artworks, including those by Thomas Cole, Rembrandt Peale, and Gilbert Stuart, as well as all 435 of John James Audubon’s extant preparatory watercolors for Birds of America.

Newly designed in 2017, the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture on our reimagined fourth floor offers visitors an interactive exploration of new and historic objects from our collection, such as George Washington’s camp bed from Valley Forge, the 1863 draft wheel used in the lottery that set off the Civil War Draft Riots, and American folk art from the legendary collection of sculptor Elie Nadelman, as well as objects from the legendary tennis player and equal rights activist Billie Jean King and 100 glistening Tiffany Lamps—one of the world’s largest collections of Tiffany glasswork—on view in our Center for Women’s History.

The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

One of the oldest, most distinguished libraries in the nation—and one of only 20 in the United States qualified to be a member of the Independent Research Libraries Association—the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, newspapers, broadsides, music sheets, manuscripts, prints, photographs and architectural drawings. The Library continues to receive important research materials relating to education, philanthropy, social service, and the history of New York and the nation, including the papers of the Children’s Aid Society, the complete archives of Time Inc. and the New York Sun, photograph collections of Jessie Tarbox Beals, Editta Sherman, and George Kalinsky, and much more.

DiMenna Children's History Museum

Founded in 2011, DiMenna Children’s History Museum is the first history museum in the United States designed specifically for children, presenting 350 years of New York and American history through character-based pavilions, interactive exhibits and digital games, the Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library, and a wide range of family learning programs for toddlers, children, and preteens.

For current exhibitions, please visit https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions

For future exhibitions, please visit https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions

Item Special Note

Certificate will be emailed to winner who must complete the form and submit it to the New-York Historical Society by mail, email or in person.