History Exhibition
History ExhibitionUpper East Side
The Temple of Dendur steals the show: a complete 10 BCE Nubian temple floating in a sunlit atrium with Central Park views. Thirty thousand artifacts trace five millennia of Egyptian civilization through gold jewelry, tomb models, and vivid painted facsimiles that capture colors lost to time.
Tips
June 11
Wander Fifth Avenue's Gilded Age glory, from the secrets of the Frick Collection to Millionaire's Row's oldest mansion. Your guide unpacks stories of excess, ambition, and the families who built Manhattan's most jaw-dropping private residences.
June 11
Chinoiserie's exotic fantasies get a feminist reckoning. Over 200 objects, from 16th-century porcelain to contemporary Asian and Asian-American works, retell a story of enchantment and harm.
June 11
Step into the vibrant world of colonial-era Hindu devotional art, where lithographed gods and goddesses once hung in homes across India. These mass-produced prints from 1860 to 1930 trace how technology transformed religious imagery into household objects.
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History ExhibitionHistory ExhibitionThe Temple of Dendur steals the show: a complete 10 BCE Nubian temple floating in a sunlit atrium with Central Park views. Thirty thousand artifacts trace five millennia of Egyptian civilization through gold jewelry, tomb models, and vivid painted facsimiles that capture colors lost to time.
Tips
June 11
Wander Fifth Avenue's Gilded Age glory, from the secrets of the Frick Collection to Millionaire's Row's oldest mansion. Your guide unpacks stories of excess, ambition, and the families who built Manhattan's most jaw-dropping private residences.
June 11
Chinoiserie's exotic fantasies get a feminist reckoning. Over 200 objects, from 16th-century porcelain to contemporary Asian and Asian-American works, retell a story of enchantment and harm.
June 11
Step into the vibrant world of colonial-era Hindu devotional art, where lithographed gods and goddesses once hung in homes across India. These mass-produced prints from 1860 to 1930 trace how technology transformed religious imagery into household objects.