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Best place to remember why you love Brooklyn: Brooklyn Historical Society

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"The Big Game"

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Jumbo—and we mean it—sets of chess, checkers and dominoes add an exciting, athletic component to playing board games.

  1. Staten Island Children's Museum 1000 Richmond Terr, at Snug Harbor Rd
  2. Sun May 19 - Sun Sep 1
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"Great Explorations"

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Various extreme environments let kids pretend they're driving a dogsled in the tundra, diving deep to the ocean floor and venturing into a rain forest.

  1. Staten Island Children's Museum 1000 Richmond Terr, at Snug Harbor Rd
  2. Sun May 19 - Mon Sep 2
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"A Beautiful Way to Go: New York's Green-Wood Cemetery"

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The Brooklyn graveyard marks its 175th anniversary this year. Learn about the changes the green space has undergone through more than 200 artifacts, photographs and architectural drawings, and hear the stories of famous New Yorkers buried there, including Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

  1. Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave, between 103rd and 104th Sts
  2. Mon May 20 - Sun Oct 13
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"Junior Officers Discovery Zone"

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This permanent interactive exhibition allows kids to get their mitts all over NYPD-inspired activities and paraphernalia. Preschoolers can mix and match city sounds (like wailing sirens and the distinctive trot of police-horse hooves) while older children can learn how to decipher radio codes. And of course, no tyke will want to miss climbing into

  1. New York City Police Museum 100 Old Slip, between South and Water Sts, 10005
  2. Mon May 20 - Tue Dec 31
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Science Playground

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Tots learn about technology as they slide and seesaw, climb a giant spiderweb, romp in sand pits and wind their way around big trees. Ages 1 to 6.

  1. New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th St, at 47th Ave, 11368
  2. Mon May 20 - Tue Dec 31
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"'Hava Nagila': A Song for the People"

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Extend your understanding of "Hava Nagila" beyond the hora with this exhibition all about the Jewish celebratory tune. Photos, videos and other media trace the song's history back to its early days in Eastern Europe.

  1. Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Pl, at 1st Pl
  2. Mon May 20 - Fri May 31
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“Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers”

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Gotham is predicted to gain 1 million new residents by 2030, and the proportion of one- and two- person households is rising. See the ways in which New York housing might accommodate these changing demographics in an exhibit co-presented by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and MCNY. On display are models, videos and photographs, along

  1. Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave, between 103rd and 104th Sts
  2. Mon May 20 - Sun Sep 15
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"Shop Life"

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The first new permanent exhibition to open at the the Lower East Side Tenement Museum since 2008 showcases the array of local businesses that have occupied the historic tenement at 97 Orchard St. Visitors are led through re-creations of those shops, including a 19th-century beer saloon, a kosher butcher shop from the 1890s, a 1930s auction house

  1. The Tenement Museum 103 Orchard St, between Broome and Delancey Sts
  2. Mon May 20 - Tue Dec 31
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"Flip Side: The Unseen in Tibetan Art"

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The museum displays both sides of select illuminated Tibetan treasures, revealing clues to the meaning and history of the work's public-facing front.

  1. Rubin Museum of Art 150 W 17th St, at Seventh Ave, 10011
  2. Mon May 20 - Mon Aug 12
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"Living Shrines of Uyghur China: Photographs by Lisa Ross"

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Look inside China’s largest province, Xinjiang Uyghur, a location that's generally cut off from foreign access, via Lisa Ross’s photography that captures her eight-year exploration of the territory. The exhibition and Ross's book of the same title aim to unlock this region that is now the country’s most abundant source of untapped natural gas, oil

  1. Rubin Museum of Art 150 W 17th St, at Seventh Ave, 10011
  2. Mon May 20 - Mon Jul 8
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