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Friday Sep 10th, 2010
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New York State Museum
The New York State Museum
is the single largest cultural
attraction in the region, welcoming
over 700,000 visitors a year.
Founded in 1836, the museum has
the longest continuously operating
state natural history research and
collection survey in the U.S.
 Located in the Museum’s
panoramic Terrace Gallery,
Windows on New York features a
historic working carousel.
The World Trade Center exhibition,
anchored by one of the first
fire pumpers at the scene on
September 11, 2001, continues
to attract visitors from
around the world.
Other permanent exhibitions
include the Adirondack Wilderness,
Native Peoples of New York,
 with a full-size re-creation of an
Iroquois longhouse, and
New York Metropolis, featuring
everything from an actual
subway car to part of the stage
set of Sesame Street.
Natural history displays exhibit
 100-million-year-old fossils,
the bones of a prehistoric mastodon,
minerals, and 170 species of native birds.
The Museum also hosts a variety of
temporary exhibitions including the
Bank of America Great Art Series
showcasing great masterpieces
 from the state’s leading art museums.
Kids from 1 to 92 enjoy the
excitement of hands-on-learning
at the Museum’s Discovery Place,
open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The New York State Museum,
 located on Madison Avenue (in the Empire State Plaza),
is open daily from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.,
except Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year’s.
Admission is free, for more information,
please call (518) 474-5877 or visit
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