UPCOMING EVENTS:

Saturday, March 22, 2025  1 PM
Join VCHM Director Margaret Holmes for a special guided tour exploring the lives of women in New York from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Using objects from the museum’s collection and the historic domestic spaces of the house, this tour examines how women shaped both home life and the broader social fabric of their time.

Admission is $5/ person. Registration is required as space is limited. 
Thursday, March 27, 2025  6 PM
 In this talk by historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson, you will learn about women’s rights (or lack thereof) in Munsee, Iroquois, African, Dutch, and English culture, and how enslaved women’s rights changed over time. Learn about women’s roles in everyday life, uprisings, and war. Meet individual women like Dutch she-merchant Margaret Hardenbroeck De Vries Philipse, Esopus sachem Mamanuchqua, Jewish merchant Rebecca Gomez, Revolutionary War soldier Deborah Sampson, and more.

This talk will be offered both in-person and online.
Thursday, April 10, 2025  6 PM
This presentation by Dr. Seth Kamil delves into the nature of the inter-colonial exchange and the shared places that define the Barbados-New York connection. It is one of enslavement and exchange that shaped the colonial landscape in the 17th and 18th centuries. Understanding the bond with Barbados and the role of African slavery is crucial to comprehending the centuries-long ties between these colonial spaces. 

This talk will be offered both in-person and online. 

NEWS:

​Bronx, NY (2/21/25) – NSCDNY/ Van Cortlandt House Museum (VCHM) has received an award of $10,000 from the City of New York as part of the city’s recent announcement of more than $59 million in Cultural Development Fund (CDF) grants to 1,078 cultural organizations across the five boroughs.

For Van Cortlandt House Museum, this CDF grant will support the museum’s No-Cost Field Trips for Bronx Public Schools in the 2024-2025 School Year Initiative. 
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Read the full press release here. 

FIELD TRIPS:
​Ready for a hands-on adventure through time?  Book your field trip for the 2024-2025 school year!  Many dates still available.

VCHM is offering no-cost field trips to all Bronx public schools for the 2024-2025 school year! 

Step into the world of an 18th century New York provisioning plantation.

Van Cortlandt House Museum is open ​for self-guided tours
Wednesday through Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.​
Admission to the museum during March 2025 is free for all visitors in celebration of Women's History Month. 

Please note that while general admission for self-guided tours during regular public hours is complimentary, some special programs and events may still have an additional fee. 

Mission Statement

Van Cortlandt House Museum strives to be a vital member of The Bronx Cultural community and the larger region by preserving, researching and interpreting the Van Cortlandt House, its grounds, and historical collection for a wide audience for the purpose of growing meaningful connections between the past and the present. The Museum’s research and interpretation focuses on the historical inhabitants of the house from 1749-1823; the social history of those who lived and worked on the property; and the study of decorative arts.
Van Cortlandt House Museum is owned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, operated by the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York (NSCDNY), and is a member of the Historic House Trust of New York City.