Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Did you know New York City has a whole museum dedicated to its history?
Come with us as @UrbanistAriel visits the @MuseumofCityNY, where curator Lilly Tuttle tells us how the institution came to be—and points out a symbol of hospitality you’ll want to look for when you visit.
Find MCNY in East Harlem along Manhattan’s famed Museum Mile.
About this series: #FoundedByNYC Origin Stories celebrates the places and people that make New York City great. It’s part of NYC Tourism’s commemoration of New York City’s 400th anniversary this year. #NYC400
Video description: This POV video is shot throughout a large Colonial Revival–style museum, with a white woman with blond hair wearing clear glasses and a white button-down shirt and blue jeans leading the videographer around the building’s interior and exterior courtyard while pointing out various highlights as she does.
Did you know New York City has a whole museum dedicated to its history?
Come with us as @UrbanistAriel visits the @MuseumofCityNY, where curator Lilly Tuttle tells us how the institution came to be—and points out a symbol of hospitality you’ll want to look for when you visit.
Find MCNY in East Harlem along Manhattan’s famed Museum Mile.
About this series: #FoundedByNYC Origin Stories celebrates the places and people that make New York City great. It’s part of NYC Tourism’s commemoration of New York City’s 400th anniversary this year. #NYC400
Video description: This POV video is shot throughout a large Colonial Revival–style museum, with a white woman with blond hair wearing clear glasses and a white button-down shirt and blue jeans leading the videographer around the building’s interior and exterior courtyard while pointing out various highlights as she does.
