Programs & Events
Want to explore New Netherland on your own?
The New Netherland Institute and the New Netherland Research Center offer a variety of resources that bring the colony to life in fresh and accessible ways. Through digital exhibitions, you can meet the people, places, and artifacts of the seventeenth century; discover books for young adults and children that tell the colony’s stories through history, adventure, and imagination; sample quirky “Dutch Treats” that reveal surprising episodes and anecdotes; trace the course of events in a pictorial timeline from the Norsemen to the Dutch departure; and watch demonstrations like Arthur Kirmss’s video on wampum making. Together, these resources invite readers of all ages to step into New Netherland’s world.
Digital Exhibitions
In NNI's Digital Exhibitions you can meet the people who made New Netherland home, wander the places they roamed, open a window into their lives through artifacts they left behind, and learn about their world through letters they wrote, maps they drew and more.
Dutch Treats
Ever wonder how much Dutchmen paid for Manhattan? Or imagine a white whale swimming a hundred miles up the Hudson River? Or picture a 17th Dutchman as a party animal? You will after tasting these bite-size morsels of New Netherland & the Dutch World.
Digital Walking Tour of New Amsterdam
From The New Amsterdam History Center
Walk down Manhattan's Stone Street in 1660 with this 3D re-creation of New Amsterdam in Google Earth. The online view now available is a video which takes you into homes, gardens and taverns and introduces you to people on the street.
