State History

The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce over 1,650 pieces and sets from our preeminent collection of New York Silver is now digitized, catalogued, publicly accessible and fully searchable via our online Collections Portal – http://collections.mcny.org.  The greatest strengths of this collection lie in the years dating from colonial settlement until the first decades of the 20th century and include approximately 2,600 pieces of civic, domestic, religious, and presentation hollowware, flatware, and accessories made by New York silversmiths and designers, and owned by notable New Yorkers.  This project was made possible through the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Henry Luce Foundation, and the Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation.