Diane von Furstenberg has sold 15 million wrap dresses and raised $100 million for the Statue of Liberty Museum. It was in recognition of both of those…
In the current political climate, opening a new museum at the Statue of Liberty would seem an invitation to controversy. The US is in the midst of its most bitter debate on immigration for generations and, inevitably, the world’s best-known symbol of hope and freedom has been caught up in rhetoric during the Trump presidency.
Construction costs for the 26,000-square-foot building topped $70 million, and over 4 million global visitors are expected to visit annually.…
Lee A. Iacocca, the visionary automaker who ran the Ford Motor Company and then the Chrysler Corporation and came to personify Detroit as the dream…
It’s a wall. It’s made of steel. It was built because immigrants kept coming.
But it’s not the wall you’re thinking of.
We’re talking about the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island: 770 stainless steel panels engraved with the names of about 775,000 immigrants.
The 26,000-square-foot space offers expanded access to artifacts, content and exhibits on the history of the Statue of Liberty…
ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK – It may surprise no one to see names like “The Russo Family” from Sicily, Italy, or Anton Ivanovich Malygin from St. Petersburg…
The original Statue of Liberty torch — 3,600 pounds of copper and glass, and 16 feet tall — is being moved to the other side of Liberty Island. In advance of the crane’s arrival, we took 675 photographs to present the torch in augmented reality.
