Imagine what Henry Hudson saw on that sunny September afternoon 400 years ago when he first looked upon the green and wooded island of Manhattan… The Museum of the City of New York’s Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City exhibition does just that.
The museum’s ambitious and critically praised exhibition employs innovative multimedia, historical artifacts, maps and ten years of research by the Mannahatta Project to “re-imagine” the ecology of the island of Manhattan at the moment when Henry Hudson first sailed into the New York harbor.
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The Scotch Plains Public Library has arranged a curator-lead tour of this major museum exhibition. Interested residents of Scotch Plains and neighboring communities are invited to participate in the tour on Sunday, October 4th. Admission, which includes access to all of the museum’s galleries is $25.00 ($20.00 for seniors), and is payable in advance to the library. Transportation for an additional fee will be arranged, depending on demand. The bus will leave the library parking lot at noon. Those requesting transportation must sign up and pay that fee by September 25.
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The curator’s tour will give participants a chance for a special look at this important exhibit before it closes on October 12. The library also owns the exhibition’s companion book by Eric Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (New York : Abrams, 2009).
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City is presented in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society. For more information about the Mannahatta Project, visit http://themannahattaproject.org/ or the the website of The Museum of the City of New York, http://www.mcny.org/
Scotch Plains Library’s Autumn in New York activities will continue with a program on the Brooklyn Bridge and musical and film events in November and December. More information can be found at http://www.scotlib.org/calendar.htm
For further information about the library trip and tour, and to register please call the Scotch Plains Library at 908-322-5007, x.204 or e-mail library@scotlib.org
