Top 5 Museums in Union Square, New York (NY)

The William Secord Gallery specializes in the sale of the fine nineteenth and twentieth century dog and animal paintings. Open by appointment

The Center for Jewish History in New York City illuminates history, culture, and heritage. The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The collections span a thousand years, with more than 5 miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, and photographs. The Center for Jewish History is home to the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, the David Berg Rare Book Room and the Collection Management & Conservation Wing. Public programs create opportunities for diverse audiences to explore the rich historical and cultural material that lives within the Center's walls.

Tibet House US is a long-term cultural institution founded in 1987 at the request of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to ensure the survival of Tibetan civilization and culture. Tibet House has a spacious gallery for daily meditation classes, lectures and teachings, cultural events and performances. The gallery also features works by contemporary artists of Tibetan origin or inspired by Tibetan culture. In addition to the Gallery, Tibet House has a Repatriation Collection of Tibetan art and ritual implements, an extensive library and research space, book and gift shop, and a traditional shrine-room. Tibet House US is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of this earth.

We’re one of the very few auction houses in the world dealing exclusively in rare, original vintage posters. Since the late 1980s, we’ve held auctions 3-4 times a year. Poster aficionados, enthusiasts, collectors, galleries, and leading art museums around the world value Rennert’s Gallery as one of their most trusted venues for successful consignments, unique buying opportunities, unequaled experience in the field, and an impeccable eye for quality in original poster art. Our gallery hosts rotating exhibitions of original poster art, as well as a bookstore of research and coffee-table volumes on poster art, and an extensive research archive open to the public by appointment. We additionally offer for sale a wide catalogue of “Contemporary Classics” poster originals from the 1960s to the 1980s, with specialties in local New York topics, plus late 20th-century Polish, Japanese, and Israeli designers. Our auctions are held under our subsidiary brand Poster Auctions International.