The 29-building hospital complex on the lesser-traveled south side of Ellis Island is a unique attraction in New York City. While most visitors head straight for the immigration museum, on the other ...
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The secret half of Ellis Island almost nobody visits
Nearly everyone who visits Ellis Island sees the same thing: the restored Great Hall, ...
Ellis Island Entrance (Paul Seibert/Courtesy Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation) Ellis Island Main Building under construction circa 1900 (Courtesy Statue of Liberty National Monument and ...
Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century makeover, more than 100 years after millions of immigrants took their first steps in America there. A new $100-million project aims to revitalize the ...
It was, for decades, a gateway for many of the millions of people who immigrated to America. Ellis Island is today a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument (the statue is on Liberty Island).
The national monument to immigration at Ellis Island is in the latter part of a $117 million makeover as the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary this weekend. Ellis Island is just over a quarter-mile ...
The museum, opened 34 years ago in a 19th-century building, will be refurbished and reimagined, the president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation said. By James Barron See more of our ...
As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, relatives of the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island reflected on the American Dream. Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, made the ...
This award-winning immigration documentary is shown in two of the island’s three theaters and is accompanied by a 15-minute introduction by a park ranger. Call 212-363-3200 for schedules and details.
Visitors to the San Diego Museum of Art in California can take a selfie and, using augmented reality, incorporate facial features of subjects hanging on the wall. They can see what they look like with ...
Spokane Valley museum’s new Ellis Island exhibit lets visitors learn about their ancestors’ journeys
Many U.S. families can trace ancestors who first arrived in America to Ellis Island, where more than 12 million immigrants came through between 1892 and 1924. Now through July 31, the Spokane Valley ...
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which sustained severe damage to its infrastructure from the surging waters of Superstorm Sandy, is not expected to re-open to the public this year, the National ...
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