New York Public Library
An illustration thought to be that
of the English explorer Henry Hudson.
Posted on 03/29/2009 6:35:03 AM PDT by Pharmboy
New York Public Library
An illustration thought to be that
of the English explorer Henry Hudson.
National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
A 17th-century navigation journal at the Museum of the City of New York.
Looking for something to celebrate? How about the commemoration of New York’s 400th birthday beginning next Saturday?
On April 4, 1609, the English navigator Henry Hudson left Amsterdam harbor to search for a shortcut to Asia. Hudson’s instructions from the Dutch East India Company were to sail east, as he had on two earlier voyages that were thwarted by Arctic ice.
Instead, inspired by insights gleaned from other explorers, Hudson steered his triple-masted ship toward the New World in hopes of discovering a Northwest Passage to Asia.
The 400th anniversary of Hudson’s departure will be celebrated this week in Amsterdam and in Manhattan, where the Museum of the City of New York opens “Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson.”
The exhibition includes 275 artifacts in an installation that evokes the hull of Hudson’s 85-foot-long ship, the Half Moon. snip...
Hudson and his crew received a decidedly mixed reception from the natives. Today, New York’s diverse population includes more American Indians and more people who identify their ancestry as Dutch than any other big American city.
And that is precisely the point of the museum’s exhibition: New York is and has always been different from other places in America because it was founded by the Dutch.
“The Dutch were the first to overthrow a king and create a republic,” said Sarah Henry, chief curator of the museum. “Nobody was celebrating tolerance, but the Dutch had a pragmatic approach to diversity.”
The exhibition — in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam and the New Netherland Project in
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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The Hudson River. Isn’t that, according to New Yorkers, the boundary of the forbidden zone? Everything west of it is, well, just a place to be scorned? :)
Today, Henry Hudson could sail up the Raritan and Rahway Rivers instead of the Hudson and he would find plenty of the Asian Indians he sought! :-)
This sounds like as good an excuse as any to come back and visit New Amsterdam again Knighthawk!
Yes that true but the “Bridge and Tunnel Crowd” keep reminding them just how close they are to the Barbarians!
I’ve been to the Scheepvaartmuseum at least three times. It’s awesome, and a must see in Amsterdam.
Longest game of ninepins ever.
Exactly what I was thinking!!
Oh the indigenous people!
Thanks again for posting. Our family is visiting NYC in June — I hope the exhibit is still open then.
I’m perplexed. Why is a museum in the most urbane and sophisticated city in the world having an exhibit celebrating the achievements of dead white patriarchal males from Europe? This doesn’t make any sense.
Yes. Also any part of NY State north or west of Westchester County is simply "Upstate" and subject to the same derision.
Gone but not forgotten. (1949 Hudson)
Yeah I want to get back to NY, not sure when. Loved the place!
Only rabid Manhattanites have that view..
Not really. I used to work with a bunch of guys from Queens, Long Island and Brooklyn and they felt that way too.
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I've never been to this museum. Is it near Central Park?
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