Two museums, Central Park at sunset, & optional late dinner

.Let's visit two great museums bordering the park, both pay what you wish for most people (see COST, below). We'll start at The New York Historical Society, where we'll see several intriguing exhibitions, including Flaco the giant Eurasian eagle that landed in NYC, female fashions of the past 200 years and 4 other women's exhibits, the renowned biographer Robert Caro, an esteemed photographer, Tiffany lamps, and more. Next we'll enter the park for a half-hour walk to the East Side during sunset. There we'll visit the Metropolitan Museum of art, feauring The Soul of Nature": German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. For comparison we'll also view the other great landscape paintings in the Met's collection . We'll then go for an optional late dinner, probably at an inexpensive Indian restaurant.

COST: Pay what you wish for everyone at the historical society and for NYS residents at the Met.

PACE: MODERATE (45-50 BLOCKS PER HOUR) NOT SLOW. YOU COULD GET LOST IN THE PARK IF YOU STRAGGLE BEHIND.

TRANSPORTATION: B or C train to 72nd or 79th St and Central Park West, or 1,2, or 3 train to 72nd St. and Broadway (then walk east).