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The New-York Historical Society on the corner of Central Park West and 77th Street now has a new entrance and other upgrades. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

New York City museum reopens after $65M renovation

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The New-York Historical Society on the corner of Central Park West and 77th Street now has a new entrance and other upgrades. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The New-York Historical Society on the corner of Central Park West and 77th Street now has a new entrance and other upgrades. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

NEW YORK (AP) – The New-York Historical Society has added a children’s museum, loads of interactive features, and a motion-sensitive reproduction of a 19th-century painting.

These are some of the changes at New York City’s oldest museum following a three-year, $65 million renovation. It reopens to the public on Friday.

The museum on Central Park West also has a new entrance that lets passersby see inside its expansive new gallery.

Life-size bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass have been placed out front.

President and CEO Louise Mirrer says it’s part of an effort to make the building more inviting. It also emphasizes that history is the theme of the 207-year-old institution.

Its collections include Tiffany lamps, Audubon watercolors and Hudson River School paintings.

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Online: www.nyhistory.org

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The New-York Historical Society on the corner of Central Park West and 77th Street now has a new entrance and other upgrades. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The New-York Historical Society on the corner of Central Park West and 77th Street now has a new entrance and other upgrades. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.