New-York Historical Society creates a new division with a focus on New York City's marginalized communities
New-York Historical Society, Admissions area with Pop Shop ceiling, a gift from the Keith Haring Foundation. Photo: New-York Historical Society / Don Pollard.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The New-York Historical Society, the oldest museum in New York City (1804), has announced plans to create the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for New York City History, Politics, and Community Activisma new division within New-York Historical initiated and funded by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. The Institute will create a new historical archive, including a focus on New York Citys marginalized communities and inclusive voices that reflects important political, social, and cultural moments from the mid-1900s to the present; it will also offer scholarly programs, a resident fellowship, and short-term fellowships. Among the first archives to be added to the Institute are Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogels papers and the High Line archives. Several archives already in New-York Historicals library and museum collections, including materials relating to the Occupy Wall Street movement, will be archived in the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute as well. A national search for an executive director with a professional background and experience in the Institutes fields of study and research, will be undertaken immediately.