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While my husband and I are hikers, he is also a techie guy, not a Metropolitan Museum guy.
I am looking for ideas to interest him on the trip. Three day weekend. He hates cities. Right now I am considering. NY Transit Museum, and Ellis Island ( he likes history). Already been to the Natural History Museum. He also likes the military. Looking for ideas. Thanks

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SueNYC

Architecture design floor at MOMA. Museum of the City of NY - lots of techy stuff in the banking and grid exhibits. The Apple Stores. Museum of SEX? Governor's Island.

In the basement of a bookshop on Madison there is a toy soldier shop.

Central Park was designed from scratch. Hike and enjoy the technology. The American Museum of the Moving Image is largely about the technology of making movies.

Enjoy!
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nytraveler

How about visiting the Intrepid? Not sure if the space shuttle is there yet - but it should be. A aircraft carrier, its' jets and the shuttle should be enough technology for almost anyone.

Also consider the New York Historical Society. It was completely redone recently and is brilliant.

When you visited Natural History did you also see the Planetarium?

Or the large Apple Store on 5th that is open 24/7/365?

And agree Central Park can be fascinating. Although it is designed - it's nothing like a typical city park. Has a lot of heavily wooded areas, natural areas where the Manhattan bed rock comes to the surface and a huge amoung of bird life (it's directly under the east cost migratory flyway). Go to the Central Park Conservatory website and check out the many options for tours and walks.

SueNYC

Yes to the historical society. They are having an exhibit about the history of beer brewing all summer! and the space shuttle has arrived

Aduchamp1

You can take the subway up to the about the George Washington Bridge and then walk downtown along the Hudson.

Besides The Intrepid, you can go to Castle Clinton which guarded the harbor in the 1800's.

He would probably also like the Arms and Armor section of the Met Museum. (He can close his eyes as he passes the art.)

ggreen

The Queens Museum of Art is in one of the old buildings from the Worlds Fairs, and has a permanent exhibit pertaining to the two held in NYC - everything from photographs to memorabilia. It also has the Panorama, a room-sized recreation of the city that you can walk over and around. I personally really like their temporary exhibits as well, because this museum takes as its starting point the fact that Queens is the most diverse county in the country. So they show a lot of local artists you'd never see elsewhere, as well as more international artists from far-flung corners of the world. And it's not a huge place, so you won't get drowned in art.

The museum is set in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which is lovely to walk around (if not hike), and includes the New York Hall of Science, the USTA tennis center where the US Open is held, a golf course... There is also the adjacent Queens Botanical Garden, though not as big as its more famous cousins in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The Mets' Citi Field is also adjacent...

Afterward, you could venture one stop farther on the 7 train to Main Street, Flushing - one of NYC's three "Chinatowns". Loads of great restaurants!

ggreen

Oh, another idea if you'll be here before Labor Day is a trip out to Governor's Island. Take a free ferry from the tip of Manhattan or from the Brooklyn waterfront, rent a bicycle and ride around or take in any of the number of events that go on all summer. Last summer they had kayaking, but kept everyone in a little cove so it didn't look like much fun. (There's better kayaking to be had in NYC!)
http://www.govisland.com/html/home/home.shtml

ggreen

I should have mentioned that Governor's Island, being strategically located in NY Harbor, was home to the US Army and then the Coast Guard for over two hundred years before being sold to the city in 2003 and subsequently opened to the public.