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A new museum celebrating Italian-American heritage will open in Little Italy next week on the annual holiday celebrating the green, white and red. The Italian American Museum will open to the public on Monday, Oct. 14, the Columbus Day holiday, at 151 Mulberry St. It will house three exhibitions that celebrate Italy and Italian-American culture. Th...

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Nasdaq Opening Bell Ceremony with the Italian American Museum kicked off Italian Heritage Month in NYC. Head of Education, Marie Palladino, represented Joseph Scelsa, Founder of the Italian American Museum as the bell ringer. On October 3 guests danced to Volare, as green, white & red confetti & streamers cascaded down to represent the flag of our...

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October 1 2024: Little Italy, Manhattan, New York

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The Italian American Museum, the first institution of its kind in New York, officially opened its doors on October 1 with a trio of exhibitions and presentations of its Ambasciatore Awards to prominent supporters, including New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. The Museum is housed in a new building whose construction began in 2018 shortly after th...

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Dear friends, it has been a very, very busy but exciting June for all of us here at We the Italians. We started it in New York's Little Italy with the opening party of the magnificent Red Sauce Studio, the latest genius brainchild of John Viola and the group that makes the Italian American Podcast with him, including my friends Rossella Rago and Pa...

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June 1, 2024 Little Italy, Manhattan, New York

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The annual COPOMIAO meeting, held on June 1 in NYC in Little Italy's Italian American Museum, demonstrated a national coalition on the rise through the steady leadership of Basil M. Russo, who was unanimously elected to a third consecutive term by his peers. The Italian American Museum is not yet open to the public, as crews wrap up with a years-lo...

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A 95-year-old former master seamstress was reunited Wednesday with a long-lost statue of herself that stood for nearly four decades in the lobby of the Garment District suit company where she once worked. The life-sized plaster likeness of Maria Pulsone - which will soon go on display at the Italian American Museum - was found by her granddaughter,...

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The Italian American Museum, is set for a grand reopening of a brand new facility this spring in its new home in where else… Little Italy.  The Museum is dedicated to telling the history of Italian Americans in New York City, as well as celebrating Italian and Italian American culture in the modern world. Professor Joseph V. Scelsa founded the Ital...

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Infrastructural renderings that reference historical entities, almost always manage to cast a deeper impact than architecture designed to fulfil a hedonistic image. It is, after all, these references and details that humanise stoic edifices. Infusing architecture with such details becomes even more pertinent when designing structures within neighbo...

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