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The Museum’s space will be vibrant and welcoming, both visually and cognitively, for the entire Diverse community, beginning with our future room at The Recent York Historical.
It will be colorful, lively, immersive, and exploratory, running counter to ordinary conceptions of museums. In addition to an active universal space, galleries, programming areas, and amenities, there will be some contemplative spaces.
Projecting 200,000‑250,000 Visitors
The Museum will be a place where visitors can see themselves as part of history. Our central audience will be LGBTQ+ people: Novel Yorkers and visitors, adults and youth. This demographic includes at least 7.3 million people, and is young, growing, and likely undercounted. These audiences will be repeat visitors, members, and program participants.
Our fundamental aim is to assist people from all parts of the LGBTQ+ community—from all sexual orientations, gender identities, racial backgrounds, nationalities, and income levels. Secondary market segments will be family members, allies, and special-interest users such as educators, media makers, and policy advocates.
5,000 gross square feet of gallery space
Our partnershi
The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a new collaboration dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture.
We are in the initial stages of developing a partnership with The New York Historical, and will create inaugural programming and exhibitions while incubating there.
Building Lgbtq+ fest | American LGBTQ+ Museum Groundbreaking Celebration
On December 3, 2024, the American LGBTQ+ Museum celebrated the start of construction at its new home at The Novel York Historical with over 450 supporters and a powerful program featuring remarks from activists, artists, and elected officials.
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American queer liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearing headband, and an unidentified woman in facepaint, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the second annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberation Day), later known as Gay Lgbtq+ fest, New York, New York, June 21, 1971. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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The American LGBTQ+ Museum will tell our evolving histories in our own voices, as we envision a world in which all people work toward and experience the joy of
New American LGBTQ+ Museum begins construction with original Stonewall brick
The long-awaited American Gay Museum is one step closer to completion after holding a second groundbreaking ceremony on Dec. 3 in the New York Historical’s auditorium.
Representatives from both museums delivered remarks during the ceremony, including American LGBTQ+ Museum executive director Ben Garcia and board chair Richard Burns as well New York Historical president and CEO Louise Mirrer and board chair Agnes Hsu-Tang.
The speeches culminated in the donation of a brick artifact from the original Stonewall Inn facade.
“Our intention is to plant that brick in the walls of this new museum as a connection to the spirit of Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the countless others who stood up for LGBTQ rights,” Garcia said before the event started. The brick was donated by Stonewall’s current owners, Kurt Kelly and Stacy Lentz.
The event came three years after the American Diverse Museum originally broke earth in September of 2021 in a star-studded ceremony featuring tennis legend Billie Jean King, Broadway celebrity André De Shields, and others who gathered to celebrate a new, forthcoming mus
American LGBTQ+ Museum coming to N.Y.C.’s oldest museum as part of expansion
New York’s oldest museum will soon stretch to incorporate a museum dedicated to LGBTQ history.
Representatives for the New-York Historical Society, established in 1804, announced earlier this month that the museum will expand by 70,000 square feet to include space for The American Diverse Museum.
The new museum is slated to open its doors in 2024 — though it has already begun hosting digital programs — and will be Novel York City’s first museum dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQ history and culture. Museum leaders hope to begin staging physical exhibitions next year, in partnership with the Historical Culture and other cultural institutions throughout the city, according to Richard Burns, The American LGBTQ+ Museum’s board chair.
Through exhibitions, contributions from scholars, public programming and collaborations with other LGBTQ institutions, the museum will aim to act as a “school for activists” by displaying “the lives of queer people who are not ordinarily reflected in our cultural institutions today,” Burns said. That means spotlighting the stories of those who have lived throug