Located in lower Manhattan, you’ll find the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which houses the National Museum of the American Indian. The building is absolutely stunning and the interior will amaze you (especially the rotunda). Admission is free making the museum a fun place to visit when you have some extra time of your hands.  Inside the museum you’ll find exhibits such as A Song for the Horse Nation and Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America. Each exhibit is filled with detailed information, photographs and artifacts, some dating back hundreds of years. I especially enjoyed the horse exhibit as it showcased through videos the various types of horses used by certain tribes and how they were used. The exhibits are constantly changing, so go back once in a while to fully understand the culture of the American Indians!

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Tim Burton creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005) and so many other movies and stories is now having a must see exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. “This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.” The exhibition has limited space and it’s a good idea to plan and get tickets ahead of time to secure your spot.

-Exhibition Information-

Location
The Museum Of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street  New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400  |  Contact Us |  Hours

Tickets
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Experience Titanic’s fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship’s interior. Discover how the ‘unsinkable’ Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew, as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck.

-Largest collection of Titanic artifacts, many on display for the first time after being recovered from the ocean floor including jewels, china, documents, clothing and much more
-Experience a recreation of the Ship’s illustrious Grand Staircase

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-Hours Of Operation-
SUNDAY – THURSDAY
10AM – 8PM
FRIDAY – SATURDAY
10AM – 9PM

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Between 7TH & 8TH Avenues

Discovery Times Square Exposition Website

It’s official New York City now really does have everything, you can now even “Journey To The Stars” from the safety and comfort of a museum. This amazing show is playing at The American Museum Of Natural History which is a must see museum and this exhibit should be first on your list. Here is a bit about the show from the AMNH website.

“A spectacular new Space Show, Journey to the Stars, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, premiered on Saturday, July 4, 2009, in the Hayden Planetarium at the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space.

Featuring extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling new Journey to the Stars launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including our own nurturing Sun. Tour familiar stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars. Those who come along for the journey may never see the night sky in the same way again.

Journey to the Stars is an engrossing, immersive theater experience created by the Museum’s astrophysicists, scientific visualization, and media production experts with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 40 leading scientists from the United States and abroad.”

-SHOWTIMES-
Monday-Friday
Every Half Hour, 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Except Wednesdays, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday-Sunday
Every Half Hour, 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

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Central Park West – 79TH Street, New York, NY, 10024

This Amazing World Premiere Exhibit Opens November 20, 2009

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Between 7TH & 8TH Avenues

Discovery Times Square Exposition Website

Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s 500 year old inventions from his actual notebooks as they are brought to life in in this world premiere exhibit. Discover how his visions for an airplane, automobile and bridge would have worked – long before they became the modern world’s reality. Plus, uncover the translations and hidden meanings behind the mastermind’s paintings, sketches and notebooks through innovative digital technology.

• Featuring full scale models of da Vinci’s inventions including his self-propelled cart, airplane, robot knight and mechanical lion

• Innovative touch screen technology translates over 500 sketches from his actual notebooks into 3-dimensional models

• Da Vinci’s most important paintings can now be viewed using avant-garde technologies and extensive 3D imaging and animations