What do we share? How are we different? What gives our lives meaning?

These are the questions we explore at The Culture Center, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side opposite the American Museum of Natural History.

The Culture Center: concerned with everything human -- the arts, beliefs, practices and ideas that express the world's rich and diverse cultural traditions.

The Culture Center: a place in which to explore our humanity through cultural exchange.

Our goal?

To create a sense of community in a diverse world that gets smaller every day.

To encourage greater understanding across cultures by providing a place where people can learn, communicate and celebrate together.

How do we reach our goal?

In 1990, we realized that in NYC, where space is at a premium, there were many organizations which needed a place to have meetings, workshops, celebrations and exhibitions now and then. That’s how The Culture Center was born.

Our space is available for rent to individuals and organizations who want to support cultural exchange.

In turn, we devote our revenues to promoting cultural exchange.

• we hosted events for children with AIDS and SIDS, Landmarks West!, The Attingham Trust, and Interlochen Center for the Arts
• we sponsored a Chinese composer for permanent residency
• we provided a full scholarship for a Tibetan student to attend college in the US
• we produced the documentary film Explorer: The Life of Bruce Klepinger on the journeys and philosophy of one of the world's renowned trek leaders