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DiMenna Children’s History Museum at New-York Historical
Society to Host Its Fourth Annual Family Benefit Party
Saturday, January 23, 2016
11 am – 2 pm
Sponsored by Fendi with support from seedling
and barkTHINS
Media Sponsors: WNET and Big Apple Parent
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The DiMenna Children’s History Museum
at the New-York Historical Society hosts its fourth
annual Family Benefit Party―Heroes in History!
Parents and children (ages 4 – 14) will have the
opportunity to meet historical figures and explore
fascinating moments from history with fun,
interactive activities:
o Learn
how to be a spy for George Washington and Alexander
Hamilton
o Join
the Wright Brothers and design light-weight
airplanes
o Marvel
at a strongman and his superhuman feats of strength
o Forge
a path to freedom with Harriet Tubman along the
Underground Railroad
o Track
Typhoid Mary using stealth detective work
o Tinker
with circuits and hear from Thomas Edison about his
incredible inventions
o Shout
out your headlines with a band of newsies
o Take
a high flying historical family portrait in our
photo booth
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Funds raised at the event help the
New-York Historical Society and the DiMenna
Children’s History Museum to continue providing
exceptional opportunities for children and families
to discover and explore our nation’s history.
Through interactive museum experiences and unique
family programming, as well as school programs
serving students at their schools and in the Museum,
the New-York Historical Society annually impacts
over 40,000 family visitors, 200,000 New York City
school students, and thousands of teachers.
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Where:
Event Chairs:
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
11 am – 2 pm
New-York Historical Society
170 Central
Park West at 77th Street,
New York, NY 10024
Diana & Joe DiMenna, Brenda M. Earl,
Richard Gilder & Lois Chiles, Lewis E. Lehrman,
Margaret & Daniel S. Loeb, Caroline & Paul McCaffery,
Mary Kathryn Navab, Pam & Scott Schafler
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Event
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Maria & Frank Chiodi, Beth Carney &
Joseph J. Struzziery
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ABOUT THE DIMENNA CHILDREN’S
HISTORY MUSEUM
The DiMenna
Children’s History Museum is a
museum-within-a-museum that explores New York
and American history through the eyes of
children of the past. Occupying the New-York
Historical Society’s entire lower level, it
includes character-based pavilions, the Barbara
K. Lipman Children’s History Library,
interactive exhibits, and games. The DiMenna
Children’s History Museum encourages children to
identify with the people whose enterprise and
creativity changed the course of our history. It
also hosts a series of family programs, from
Sunday story hours to arts and crafts. All ages
can enjoy and learn in the DiMenna Children’s
History Museum, but the exhibits are targeted at
age 8-13.
ABOUT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
Founded in
1804, the New-York Historical Society has a
mission to explore the richly layered history of
New York City and State and the country, and to
serve as a national forum for the discussion of
issues surrounding the making and meaning of
history. New York Historical is recognized for
engaging the public with deeply researched and
far-ranging exhibitions, such asAlexander
Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America;
Slavery in New York; Nature and the American
Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York
Historical Society; Grant and Lee in War and
Peace; Lincoln
and New York; The
Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York
Historical Society; Nueva
York; Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn; WWII
& NYC; The
Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,
and Chinese
American: Exclusion/Inclusion. Supporting
these exhibitions and related education programs
is one of the world’s greatest collections of
historical artifacts, works of American art, and
other materials documenting the history of the
United States and New York.
New-York Historical presents two
groundbreaking exhibitions on view now: Superheroes
in Gotham (through
February 21), sharing the fascinating,
inspiring, and largely unknown history of
superheroes in New York City and beyond; and Silicon
City (through
April 10), exploring New York’s pivotal role in
launching the Digital Age.
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