Museum of the City of New York

This guide to the Museum of the City of New York centers on Henry Collins Brown, the Scottish-born writer who founded the museum in 1923 but never set foot in the building you're standing in. It follows his early Old New York exhibition, the trustees who began planning a grand Fifth Avenue home, and the growing distance between Brown and the board he had built. Listen for how a dollhouse in the collection ended up holding a miniature by Marcel Duchamp.