Featured Event September 12, 2009 - January 3, 2010 New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World
South Street Seaport Museum New York City, NY Using recently uncovered archives and new scholarship, the exhibition will investigate the Dutch origins of New York as a diverse crossroads of goods and cultures. Among the highlights of the exhibition is the only surviving 17th-century document that records Peter Minuet’s legendary real estate deal with the local Lenni Lenape tribe for goods worth 60 guilders. More Events >> |