Museums Council of New York City

MCNYC

About Museums Council

The Museums Council of New York City was founded in 1939 to improve professional museum practice through the exchange of knowledge and experience regarding the educational functions of museums. Membership is restricted to institutions that are not-for-profit, permanent establishments with a duly elected Board of Trustees, and operated in the public interest for the purpose of preserving, studying, interpreting, and exhibiting objects and specimens of educational and cultural value, including artistic, scientific, and historical materials. Museums thus defined include botanical gardens, libraries, zoological parks, aquaria, planetaria, historical societies and historic houses and sites.

Meetings are held bimonthly at member institutions to offer staff an opportunity to share ideas about exhibits, business, educational programs, and other current events in the museum and exhibition profession. Museums Council Member Cards are distributed annually to encourage staff to visit, explore,and keep abreast of the activities of other member institutions by permitting general admission free of charge.

The Council publishes a directory of member institutions on an annual basis. The cost is $6 for staff of member institutions and $12 for non-members. Directories can be purchased by contacting Marcia J. Rudy at mrudy@nyscience.org Requests by mail should be sent to: Marcia J. Rudy, 47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368. Checks should be made payable to The Museums Council of New York City.

Members Directory

Alice Austen House Alley Pond Environmental Center American Academy of Arts and Letters American Folk Art Museum The American Irish Historical Society American Museum of Natural History American Numismatic Society Americas Society Asia Society Museum The Bayside Historical Society The Bronx County Historical Society The Bronx Museum of The Arts Bronx Zoo - WCS Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Children's Museum Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Museum Center for Jewish History Central Park Zoo - WCS Children's Museum of the Arts Children's Museum of Manhattan China Institute Gallery Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Dahesh Museum of Art Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Fraunces Tavern Museum The Frick Collection Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Gateway National Recreation Area The Gracie Mansion Conservancy The Grolier Club Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Harbor Defense Museum The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library International Center of Photography Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Japan Society Gallery The Jewish Museum Louis Armstrong House Museum Lower East Side Tenement Museum Manhattan Sites, National Park Service The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Merchant's House Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens The Morgan Library and Museum Morris-Jumel Mansion Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden The Municipal Art Society of New York El Museo del Barrio Museum for African Art

Museum of American Finance Museum of American Illustration Museum of Arts and Design Museum of Biblical Art Museum of Chinese in America Museum of the City of New York Museum at Eldridge Street The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust The Museum of Modern Art Museum of the Moving Image National Academy Museum The National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution (NMAI) Neue Galerie New York New Museum of Contemporary Art New York Aquarium - WCS The New York Botanical Garden New York City Fire Museum New York City Police Museum New York Hall of Science New-York Historical Society The New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building The New York Public Library - Library for the Performing Arts The New York Public Library - Schomburg Center New York Transit Museum The Noguchi Museum The Paley Center for Media Prospect Park Zoo - WCS P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center - MoMA Queens Botanical Garden Queens County Farm Museum Queens Museum of Art Queens Zoo Rubin Museum of Art The Skyscraper Museum Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden South Street Seaport Museum Staten Island Children's Museum Staten Island Botanical Garden Staten Island Historical Society/Historic Richmond Town Staten Island Museum Staten Island Zoological Society Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum The Studio Museum in Harlem The Trinity Museum Ukraininan Institute of America Wave Hill Whitney Museum of American Art Yeshiva University Museum Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

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