Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the New-York Historical Society
The Skirball Cultural Center’s traveling exhibition Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is at the New-York History Society through January 23! Visit if you can to see archival photos and documents, historical artifacts and more!
Highlights include a robe and jabot from RBG’s Supreme Court wardrobe; the official portraits of RBG and Sandra Day O’Connor—the first two women to serve on the Supreme Court—on loan from the National Portrait Gallery; and listening stations where visitors can hear RBG’s delivery of oral arguments, majority opinions, and forceful dissents in landmark Supreme Court cases. Also: Step into the justice’s world and take a picture standing in a 3D rendering of the Supreme Court bench.
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