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Museum Of The City Of New York

Museum Of The City Of New York

New York, NY 10029
Tax ID13-1624098

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About this organization

Revenue

$12,059,385

Expenses

$15,590,541

Website

mcny.org

Mission

The Museum of the City of New York fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world’s most influential metropolis. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future.

About

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS: During FY2018, the City Museum saw vigorous activity in collections management, and received generous support to accomplish projects with long-term impact for our audiences. Collection assessments are ongoing in several departments, including costumes and textiles, manuscripts and ephemera, paintings, and theater materials. We are continuing to inventory and catalog objects from all collections, including sculpture, furniture and decorative arts, photography, and toys, in addition to the departments previously mentioned with active assessments underway - ensuring that every object had an accurate record in the Museum database. With an estimated three-quarter million collection objects in total - from dance cards and menus to a police wagon and model of the Empire State Building - the Museum now has records for over half a million, and during this period 19,428 objects were catalogued. As part of this ongoing work, we digitized 2,593 objects with a supporting 21,826 digital images. Over 4,250 new catalog records are available with 23,020 images expanding public and scholarly access to our holdings. The Museum continued to make progress to catalog and digitize the scripts, scores, and published sheet music in the George M. Cohan collection on completed a project funded by an $129,467 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as embarked on new project to process, catalog, and digitize the Edward Floyd De Lancey family papers, with $50,000 support from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. Projects completed in FY2018 included the digitization and cataloging of over 1000 items related to the career of early 20th century entertainer Sophie Tucker with support from the Atran Foundation; and the conservation of two sculptures by Alexander Adolph Weinman (1870-1952) installed in faade niches of the Museums historic building in 1941, supported by a $100,000 grant from American Express Philanthropy. The Collections Department was fortunate to receive notification of two new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2018, including over $145,000 to support conservation, rehousing, cataloging, and digitization of approximately 700 Theatrical Broadsides, and nearly $97,000 to support the processing of the New York stories in the LOOK magazine photograph. We continued our online access by sharing 27 collections specific features to the "Stories" page of the Museum's main website to improve visibility, attracting 100,218 visits during the period. In addition, we continue to share new collections information via the "catablog" - online finding aids for research and scholarly access to previously inaccessible archival collections, which drew 7,273 visits. Over the past year, the Museum continued a major, multi-year initiative to catalog and digitize our rich collections and make them accessible on a user-friendly Collections Portal at collections.mcny.org where they may be studied and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Since the Portal launched in 2010, nearly 1.2 million unique visitors from every country in the world had visited the site by end of FY2018. The number of objects accessible online has grown significantly to over 205,000 tracking over 1.8 million page views during the period, alone. Continuing on previous years' implementation of a collecting plan for photography; the theater collection; and interim collecting guidelines for books, manuscripts, and ephemera; collecting criteria was adopted by the Collections Committee for costumes. As a natural outcome of our collections assessment, such plans establish criteria appropriate to our mandate, and provide a framework for considering new acquisitions in relation to objects already accessioned. During this period, the Museum acquired 1,928 objects for the collection, including: a 1667 land grant and 1800 map of property owner by Peter Stuyvesant, seventy-five photographs by Todd Webb of New York City scenes, four photographs by Benedict Fernandez of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., eleven photographs by Aaron Siskind from "Harlem Document," six hats worn by former curator Grace Mayer, one trouser ensemble by Betsey Johnson for Paraphernalia, one painting Mulberry and Prince Streets, by Frederick Brosen, and 165 drawings of theatrical subjects by Irma Selz. The Collections Department has also significantly increased outgoing loan activity to other institutions in the past few years. During FY2018, 183 objects were loaned to 23 different institutions, including a significant body of work by photographer Jacob Riis to Foam (Fotographie Amsterdam), in the Netherlands and a deck chair from the Titanic to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Additionally, the exhibition City as Canvas: Graffitti Art from the Martin Wong Collection traveled to Newfields (formerly known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art), Muslim in New York was presented by the JCC Manhattan, and The Original Mad Men: Illustrations by Mac Conner traveled to the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.

Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing

The filing sets forth the mission of the non-profit as “The museum of the city of new york fosters the understanding of distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and future.”.

When detailing its responsibilities, they were listed as: “To celebrate and interpret the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and transformation.”.

  • The state in which the non-profit is legally permitted to operate is NY.
  • The address of the non-profit for 2019 according to the filing is 1220 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10029.
  • The number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form as of 2019 is 225.
  • Does not operate a hospital.
  • Does not operate a school.
  • Collects art.
  • Does not provide credit counseling.
  • Has foreign activities.
  • Is not a donor advised fund.
  • Is not a private foundation.
  • Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
  • Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
  • Revenue less expenses is -$3,531,156.
  • The CEO compensation scheme within the organization is not based on a review and endorsement process by an independent body.
  • The organization has a written policy that describes how long it will retain documents.
  • The organization has 42 independent voting members.
  • The organization has a professional fund raiser.
  • The organization was formed in 1923.
  • The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
  • The organization is required to file Schedule B.
  • The organization is required to file Schedule J.
  • The organization is required to file Schedule O.
  • The organization pays $10,162,955 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
  • The organization pays $2,090,574 in fundraising expenses.
  • The organization provides Form 990 to its governing body.
  • The organization has minutes of its meetings.
  • The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
  • The organization has fundraising events.
  • The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.

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