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COLLECTIONS

Costume & Textiles Collection

Decorative Arts Collection

Fire & Police Collection

Library and Manuscripts Collection

Marine Collection

Military Collection

  

Paintings & Sculpture Collection

Prints & Photographs Collection

Theater Collection

Toy Collection

Recent Acquisitions
The Museum of the City of New York holds more than 1.5 million paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, toys, rare books, manuscripts, sculptures, decorative arts objects, and other artifacts that comprise a treasury of New York City history. The Museum has 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 furniture, prints, portrait and urban scene paintings collections are comprehensive, and the Marine and Costume Collections are outstanding.