Halve Maen approaching Manhattan 28 June 2009

NY400: Holland on the Hudson was the 2009 commemoration of the 400th anniversary of

Henry Hudson Henry Hudson ( 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. In 1607 and 16 ...

's 1609 expedition up the river bearing his name, that later provided the basis for the founding of

New Netherland New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva P ...

. The peak of activity in New York City was NY400 Week, September 8-13. It was also the occasion for environmental thinking, including the Mannahatta Project reconstructing the ecology of 1609 Manhattan. Sponsored by the Embassy of the Netherlands and

NYC & Company NYC & Company is New York City’s official marketing, tourism and partnership organization. The not-for-profit quasi-agency's mission is to maximize opportunities for travel and tourism in New York City Tourism is travel for pleasure or bus ...

, the event was also known as Henry Hudson 400 in the Netherlands and as the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial in New York State, also commemorating the achievements of

Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the (also known as ''Clermont''). In 1807, that steamboa ...

and Samuel de Champlain, after the

Hudson–Fulton Celebration The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton's ...

a century previous. Design for the campaign was by a collaboration between two artists, the Swiss Cornelia Blatter and the Dutch Marcel Hermans. Visits to New York City were made by a replica of the ''Half Moon'' and another of the ''

Onrust The ''Onrust'' (; en, Restless) was a Dutch ship built by Adriaen Block and the crew of the '' Tyger'', which had been destroyed by fire in the winter of 1613. The ''Onrust'' was the first ship to be built in what is now New York State, and the ...

'', as well as Vermeer's '' The Milkmaid'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The New Island Festival on Governors Island included the Goverthing art installation. Museum exhibitions were also held at the

Museum of the City of New York A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

, the

Hudson River Museum The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948. While often considered an art museum by th ...

and the Westchester Arts Council. The event's architectural legacy includes the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion at

Peter Minuit Plaza Peter Minuit Plaza is an urban square serving the intermodal transportation hub at South Ferry, and lies at the intersection of State Street and Whitehall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The plaza is a heavy pedestrian ...

at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the Walkway over the Hudson as a pedestrianized former railroad bridge at Poughkeepsie.

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