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The Nicholas Roerich Museum is a museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to the works of Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), a Russian-born cosmopolitan artist. His early accomplishments include devising with Igor Stravinsky the libretto, and creating the sets and costumes for the “ Rite of Spring ” (1913).
The New York Hall of Science, branded as NYSCI, is a science museum at 47-01 111th Street, within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York. It occupies one of the few remaining structures from the 1964 New York World's Fair , along with two annexes completed in 1996 and 2004.
The New York Museum of Science and Industry was established through a $2,500,000 bequest from Henry R. Towne, for the, "creation of a technical museum." [1] The newly created museum was initially on display on 40th St. with a Dr. F.C. Brown as its director. [1]
This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Alexander John Motyl [a] (born October 21, 1953) is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.
KASS Computer Museum - A computer history museum & private collection; Russian Virtual Computer Museum - a history of Soviet Computers from the late 1940s; Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - a museum of Soviet electronic calculators, PCs and some other devices; Development of Computer Science and Technologies in Ukraine - Ukrainian virtual ...
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in the outskirts of Moscow there are a couple of sites dedicated to the Soviet and Russian contributions to science and technology. These include the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics , the All-Russia Exhibition Centre and the Monument to the Conquerors of Space .
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in 1923 [ 3 ] to preserve and present the history of New York City , and its people.