The city's monthly payments to the museum will be restored.
One of the most popular experiments has been the museum's monthly free first-Saturday programs, which attract thousands of visitors for evenings of music and art.
In the August 1998 issue of the museum's monthly magazine, Smithsonian, the appraisal value of the instruments was stated to be $50 million.
El Museo del Barrio: Super Sábado!: We Love Musica (Saturday) Music and musical activities are planned from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. during this monthly program at the museum, at 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem.
(Anne Mancuso) Around Town Museums and Sites American Museum of Natural History: Bird Talk and Screening (Tuesday) If it looks, flies and sings like a bird, it's a species familiar to the Linnaean Society, a natural-history organization named for the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus that holds monthly meetings at the museum.
At this show the opening night of the current season of the museum's monthly One Step Beyond series, Mr. Butler was joined onstage by Tendai Maraire, who primarily played a pair of congas, and two female rappers, Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White, who on their own make up the duo THEESatisfaction.
Under the agreement, Mr. Giuliani promised to restore the city's monthly payments to the museum and to drop, once and for all, his efforts to evict it from a city-owned building and remove its board of trustees because of last fall's "Sensation" exhibition, which included a painting of the Virgin Mary adorned with elephant dung.
If you're in town for a few days, consider the museum's monthly "tradecraft" training sessions, including a class taught at night on city streets.
A drink next to the dinosaur is just the prologue to an imaginative bi-monthly evening that the museum has started.
In addition to exhibits of cocktail shakers and such, the museum also plans monthly seminars and classes.
Residents said the museum would provide monthly income from a tenant that promised to reflect the philosophy that was an important part of the building and the East Village itself.
