Visitors can select vintage television broadcasts from the Center's collection, take guided tours and participate in programs covering everything from Shark Tank to Presidential Debates. Read more.
Located in an erstwhile firehouse, this fascinating little museum features an extensive collection of vintage firefighting equipment and memorabilia dating all the way back to the 1600s. Read more.
Visitors can ride on trikes with square wheels; take a boat ride over funky shapes; play with robots, and make their own tessellation tiles. Read more.
This teeny two-room museum is appropriately located above an old speakeasy that once served as a hangout for famous gangsters like Al Capone and John Gotti. Read more.
The museum features elevator parts dating all the way back to the mid-1800s, along with paintings and photographs of elevators.
The Mmuseumm still takes the cake for most interesting miscellany per square inch. Housed in an abandoned freight elevator in TriBeCa, the museum aims to showcase "contemporary artifacts." Read more.
Housed in the heart of Chinatown, the Museum of Chinese in America has been a testament to Chinese-American heritage for over 30 years. Read more.
The City Reliquary looks like the inside of a crazy collector’s apartment. It's not so surprising that it got its start as the window display of founder Dave Herman’s Williamsburg home ten years ago. Read more.
Evolving from mobile exhibitions blowing up grains to make cereal to a physical lab space, MOFAD is the definition of what the New York Times called "not just hands-on, but tongue-on and nostrils-on." Read more.
A walk-through gives you the sense of floating on your back in a large, boundless ocean. I credit this feeling to either Zen or some kind of piped-in hallucinatory gas. Read more.
