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Manhattan: Financial District Museums

While you're downtown visiting the attractions in New York City's Financial District, find some time to check out the area's museums. Financial District museums include South Street Seaport, The Skyscraper Museum and Ellis Island.
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Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Located in the New York Harbor, approximately 12 million steerage and third class steamship passengers were processed on Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. Immigrants who entered the United States through the port of New York were legally and medically inspected at Ellis Island.
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Housed in a meeting place of American Revolutionary leaders, its permanent collection contains important early American prints, paintings, decorative arts and artifacts dating from the Colonial period to the mid-19th-century.
Museum Of Jewish Heritage
Serving as a Living Memorial to the Holocaust, this Battery Park City museum seeks to educate visitors about the 20th century Jewish experience, before, after and during the Holocaust. Their collection includes films, original documents and artifacts.
National Museum of the American Indian
The New York branch of this museum is located in the George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan. The museum is host to an extensive collection of artifacts.
The Skyscraper Museum
Currently sponsoring an exhibit [link=http://www.skyscraper.org/programs/]WTC:Monument[/link] at The New York Historical Society, The Skyscraper Museum will open in its permanent home later this year.
South Street Seaport Museum
This downtown museum is dedicated to preservation and education of maritime artifacts and history. They also host a number of family activities, lectures and musical performances.
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