New York Transit Museum Archives

The mission of the New York Transit Museum is to collect, exhibit, interpret, and preserve the structural, sociological, and technological history of land-based public transportation systems in the New York metropolitan region, past and present, and to conduct research and educational programs that make its extensive collection accessible and meaningful to the broadest possible audience.

The New York Transit Museum collection holds close to one million objects and has two Archives locations open to researchers by appointment only. For more information about visiting the Archives, please click here.

To view our online Digital Collections, please visit this website.

Finding Aids

Finding aids are tools used to navigate archival resources. Finding aids describe how collections are physically arranged, provide biographical or historical context, and facilitates access to the materials.

Searching the Database

Use this site to search across the New York Transit Museum’s archival resources for detailed information contained in finding aids and collection descriptions. To filter the results of a keyword search, use the left navigation bar to refine the results. To browse our holdings, click the Collections tab above. New finding aids are being added to this database regularly. Please check back often or contact collections@nytransitmuseum.org with any questions.