Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York holds one of America's most important photographic collections, a world renowned collection on American theater, and the finest and most complete collection of Currier and Ives hand-colored lithographs. The New York Silver Collection spans four centuries and is considered the best of its type. The Marine and Costume Collections are outstanding and the furniture, portrait and urban scene paintings collections are comprehensive. There are more than 1.5 million paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, toys, rare books, manuscripts, sculptures, decorative arts objects, and other artifacts that comprise New York City's historic treasury.