Oct 7, 2026 · 30 min · 5 segments
The Museum of New York Presents "Raise Your Voice", a new permanent exhibition which chronicles the four main ways that ordinary New Yorkers have organized to make change, over the last 250 years…
The Museum of the City of New York debuted a new permanent exhibition last Tuesday called Raise Your Voice.
This exhibition chronicles the four ways that ordinary New Yorkers have organized across the decades to make change that would not have happened without their efforts.
This exhibit was created with support from the Puffin Foundation, which previously sponsored a longtime exhibit at the same museum called Activist New York.
In the same space that it currently is at right now, but now we're joined by Sarah Seidman, the curator of the Raise Your Voice New York City Activism ongoing permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, and also Neal Rosenstein, president of the Puffin Foundation.
Well, the Museum of the City of New York has previously, as we said, hosted this longstanding exhibition called Activist New York before this new exhibition, not to be confused, called Raise Your Voice, just opened in September.
Could you just speak about how this show differs from Activist New York and what the curatorial process looked like when you were reimagining this new exhibition?
So, you know, through our continued partnership with the Puffin Foundation, we were able to really expand on the work that we did with the previous show, Activists New York, by focusing on the show on the tactics of activism, as well as highlighting more objects from the museum's large collection, making it more sustainable and organic in terms of how the show evolves since it's an ongoing exhibition and making it more hands on for visitors of all ages.
Can you talk a little bit more about about the hands on parts of the exhibit, like what people will see and be able to interact with when they walk into the space?
So we have a music station that Neil can also speak more about as well, where you can choose a song from, you know, that's New York related.
Over the decades, we have an interactive music poster maker that we made with artist and designer Josh McPhee where you can make a poster about you know any issue that you care about using different symbols that have appeared consistently across movements over time and send it to yourself to hang on your wall or print it and use it at an action of your choosing.
And then we also have an activity that's really geared toward visitors of all ages around civic involvement, like everyday problems in your neighborhood, trash pickup, a bike lane, whether there should be more, how do you ride your bike around the city? Or how can you access your subway station more effectively through elevators? or other accessibility features and show folks, you know, different options for engaging with local government, getting involved.
And we also do have voter registration forms for New York State residents and ways to look up elected officials as well.
It has over 200 objects and images from activist moments in history and throughout time in New York City history that is But one of the things that's also, an exhibit is part of a new center and a new initiative that the museum is undertaking with our support and is actually called a Center for Activism.
The Museum of the City of New York debuted a new permanent exhibition last Tuesday called Raise Your Voice.
This exhibition chronicles the four ways that ordinary New Yorkers have organized across the decades to make change that would not have happened without their efforts.
This exhibit was created with support from the Puffin Foundation, which previously sponsored a longtime exhibit at the same museum called Activist New York.
In the same space that it currently is at right now, but now we're joined by Sarah Seidman, the curator of the Raise Your Voice New York City Activism ongoing permanent exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, and also Neal Rosenstein, president of the Puffin Foundation.
Well, the Museum of the City of New York has previously, as we said, hosted this longstanding exhibition called Activist New York before this new exhibition, not to be confused, called Raise Your Voice, just opened in September.
Could you just speak about how this show differs from Activist New York and what the curatorial process looked like when you were reimagining this new exhibition?
So, you know, through our continued partnership with the Puffin Foundation, we were able to really expand on the work that we did with the previous show, Activists New York, by focusing on the show on the tactics of activism, as well as highlighting more objects from the museum's large collection, making it more sustainable and organic in terms of how the show evolves since it's an ongoing exhibition and making it more hands on for visitors of all ages.
Can you talk a little bit more about about the hands on parts of the exhibit, like what people will see and be able to interact with when they walk into the space?
So we have a music station that Neil can also speak more about as well, where you can choose a song from, you know, that's New York related.
Over the decades, we have an interactive music poster maker that we made with artist and designer Josh McPhee where you can make a poster about you know any issue that you care about using different symbols that have appeared consistently across movements over time and send it to yourself to hang on your wall or print it and use it at an action of your choosing.
And then we also have an activity that's really geared toward visitors of all ages around civic involvement, like everyday problems in your neighborhood, trash pickup, a bike lane, whether there should be more, how do you ride your bike around the city? Or how can you access your subway station more effectively through elevators? or other accessibility features and show folks, you know, different options for engaging with local government, getting involved.
And we also do have voter registration forms for New York State residents and ways to look up elected officials as well.
It has over 200 objects and images from activist moments in history and throughout time in New York City history that is But one of the things that's also, an exhibit is part of a new center and a new initiative that the museum is undertaking with our support and is actually called a Center for Activism.
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