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Bronx Best Kept Secret : 18 museums in 23 categories with over 3,500,000
visitors.
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: JEAN ZIMMERMANN
Tel.: 212 327 0401 - Fax: 212 288 3666
E-mail: jzimmermann@museumregister.com
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directory of the Bronx' 18 museums is published for the first time,
exclusively on the Web. It forms the Bronx section of the MuseumRegister.com,
an international directory of museums, exclusively published on
the Internet, free to all.
The Bronx Museums Home page is at:
http://www.museumregister.com/US/NewYork/Bronx/Alpha.html
Each
museum has its own page, illustrated when possible, with a wealth
of information: address, telephone, fax, e-mail, admission, facilities,
hours, how to get there, a short history of the museum and a brief
description of the collection. When possible a link to the museum's
own web site is provided.
Museums
can be accessed through the following: Alphabetical Index, Geographical
Location and categories
http://www.museumregister.com/US/NewYork/Bronx/Categories.html
Example:
Wave Hill
http://www.museumregister.com/US/NewYork/Bronx/WaveHill/Museum.html
is listed in and can be accessed from the following indexes:
Museums Index: Alphabetical
Geographic Locations: USA, New York, Bronx
and in the following categories:
Literary Museums: Mark Twain is also listed in the "People" index
of the MuseumRegister.com
Biographical: Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Arturo Toscanini
Historic House
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Bartow-Pell
Mansion Museum, Carriage House & Gardens
(Historic House, Carriage House, Landscaping) |
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Bronx
County Historical Society (The)
(Historical Society Museum & Bronx History) |
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Bronx
Museum of the Arts (The)
(Visual Arts Museum) |
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Bronx
Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park
(Zoo & Wildlife Conservation Park) |
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City
Island Nautical Museum
(Nautical, Maritime Industry, Bronx History, Sports: Yachting) |
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Edgar
Allan Poe Cottage at Fordham
(Biographical, Historic House, Literary Museum) |
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Hall
of Fame for Great Americans (The)
(Visual Arts & History Museum) |
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Judaica
Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale (The)
(Judaica Museum) |
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Lehman
College Art Gallery
(Visual Arts & College Museum) |
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Maritime
Industry Museum, The Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
(Maritime Industry Museum) |
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Museum
of Migrating People
(Immigration History & History Museum) |
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New
York Botanical Garden (The)
(Botanical Garden, Nature Center & Historic Buildings, Landscaping)
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North
Wind Undersea Institute
Temporary closed
(Aquarium, Marine & Nautical Museum) |
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Stuart
S. Elenko Collection: The Holocaust Museum Studies Center (The)
(Holocaust
Museum) |
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Throgs
Neck Lighthouse
(Lighthouse) |
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Valentine-Varian
House/Museum of Bronx History
(Biographical,
Historic
House Museum, Bronx History) |
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Van
Cortlandt House Museum
(Biographical,
Historic
House Museum, Bronx History, U.S. Presidential Museum [George Washington]) |
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Wave
Hill
(Biographical, Historic House Museum, Literary Museu, Landscaping) |
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