It is still one of the best museums in the country for those aged up to 11, and unusually has excellent exhibits aimed at pre-school children - normally a tricky age when it comes to museums.
One would not ordinarily think of kitchenware as art, but a new exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan aims to challenge the notion that utensils are merely utilitarian.
The exhibits aims at telling the story of the use of textiles in the home i.e. the introduction of curtains and sofa cushions.
The exhibit, organized by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, aims to give immigrants a new image that is vastly different from the images of scofflaws and welfare collectors that some legislators have promoted.
The exhibit aimed to educate the public on her writings and activism and uses tools to encourage new generations to become active in issues involving their own neighborhoods.
Gripes: 1) The exhibit aims to sum up 5,000 years in the same amount of space recently devoted to a single Western artist, Robert Rauschenberg.
The exhibit aimed to preserve a record of the spontaneous outdoor shrines that were being swept away by rain or wind or collected by the city for historical preservation.
Contained within a modernist glass cube, the exhibits aim to show in a balanced, sensitive fashion the Jewish place in Munich's cultural landscape over the ages, from medieval times through to the horrors of the Third Reich and today's slow regeneration.
The exhibit aims to raise awareness of human rights, minority issues, and different forms of diversity - gender, religion, LGBT, ethnicity, language, age, etc. in Croatia.