In 1867, Mark Twain departed New York Harbor on the steamship Quaker City for a five-and-a-half-month excursion, with stops in Europe and around the Mediterranean. His humorous, opinionated, and revealing observations of the local sites and inhabitants first appeared as a series of letters in a San Francisco newspaper, two years before New York publisher Elisha Bliss released the book The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress. Using original documents, photographs, artwork, and costumes, as well as an interactive media experience, this exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of one of the best-selling travelogues of all time as it illuminates Twain’s fabled journey and explores his and other Americans’ perceptions of the Holy Land in the postbellum era.
Tue - Thu 10am - 6pm
Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 10am - 6pm
Sun 11am - 5pm
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY
40.7792476, -73.9742792
Mark Twain and the Holy Land
