Spring 2026
Art Daily
The New York Historical presents a first-of-its-kind exhibition marking New Amsterdam’s 400th anniversary, featuring works by Rembrandt van Rijn and other 17th-century Dutch masters that bring the early Dutch colony to life.
Old Masters, New Amsterdam: New York Historical celebrates 400 years with Rembrandt and Hals
New York Almanack
Highlights the ‘Old Masters, New Amsterdam’ exhibit at New York Historical featuring the ‘Mapping Early New York’ installation.
Updated ‘Mapping Early New York’ 3D Digital Installation Going On View
New York Historical
An exhibition at The New York Historical explores New York City’s origins as the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, bringing its 17th-century landscape and figures like Peter Stuyvesant to life through the modern streets of Lower Manhattan.
Recalling when Lower Manhattan was New Amsterdam in the New York Times
Art Daily
This spring, the New Amsterdam History Center returns its expanded Mapping Early New York 3D installation to The New York Historical, enhancing Old Masters, New Amsterdam (May 1–August 30, 2026), curated by Russell Shorto and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr..
Mapping Early New York returns to The New York Historical in Art Daily
I Love New York
New Amsterdam History Center’s Early Mapping Early New York Project is part of the Old Masters, New Amsterdam exhibit.
The New York Historical to Present “Old Masters, New Amsterdam” in I Love New York
Fall/Winter 2024 – 2025
The Guardian
Russell Shorto returns to fascinating history of a unique city in Taking Manhattan, a book showing how New Amsterdam became New York
‘New York plows ahead’: how the English invaded and changed a city
April 2025
article in OUR TOWN:
Inside one of the city’s greatest edifices, a new exhibit brings excitement and edification to the people—and it’s free too!
New Visions of Old New York Exhibit Brings Thrill of History to Hall of Records Building
New York
400 years of NYC: New exhibit brings visitors back to New Amsterdam
Brooklyn’s Map Explained with Daniel Steiner
Brooklyn Map Explained (video) – features Toya Dubin of NAHC’s Mapping New York Project
Summer 2024
RTL.nl – June 9, 2024
New York was founded by the Dutch exactly 400 years ago (In Dutch and English)
Fire Island and Great South Bay News –
History: Recreating The Wreck of Prince Maurice
New York Almanack – June 12, 2024
A 3d Map of New Amsterdam in 1660
New York Times – June 13, 2024
A Royal Visit to the City That Was Once Called New Amsterdam
Grondahl: New York exhibit eye-opening window into Dutch colony – June26, 2024
A visit to the exhibit: “New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam.”
Al Jazeera English, ‘New York before New York’ exhibit: Dutch settlers influenced the creation of Manhattan, July 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqNXmp6CQzk
Spring 2024
West Side Rag
Tolerance and Capitalism; Slavery and Swindle: the Mixed Legacy of the Dutch in New Amsterdam
The Bowery Boys
Visit the Exhibit at New-York Historical Society – New York Before New York
Untapped New York
New York Before New York Guided Tour at NYHS
New-York Historical Society
Atlas Obscura – March 19, 2024
This New York City Map is Full of Dutch Secrets
New York Almanack – April 25, 2024
The 1657 Wreck of the Dutch Ship The Prince Maurice
Shelter Island Reporter – May 28, 2024
A Story of a Shipwreck and Salvation: Shelter Island History Center offers a window to the past
