It is very sad to hear that after over a 100 years, that the ANS has decided to move to some obscure location outside of lower Manhattan. They have struggled, I think, with relevancy which is very sad in a city that prides itself on the arts and history. It is not good. The ANA local in Colorado Springs... I went to visit it. It was not only nearly empty, but the exhibit was, IMO, very much amateurish for such a historically important collection. I will actually probably be back there in February. to see the ANS also migrate out of this cultural capital to me, says that there is something wrong with the city and its relationship with its institutions, and it says something disturbing about the Numismatic community, which in NYC and many major cities, has been slowly dying. https://numismatics.org/pr-relocation/
I would just also point out that the ANS has more than a few objects on display at the Metropolitan Museum on 5th Avenue...at more than one location in the Museum. They have 800K objects.... which might be 750,000 too many? I mean really? That is enough to fill ALL the museums numismatics needs in all the world. It would had made more sense to just move to Brooklyn where the artists are. Coisn start about Minute 34 seconds into this video
