Dr. Lilly Tuttle

Teaches at Museum of the City of New York - Public

Dr. Lilly Tuttle is a curator at the Museum of the City of New York. During her tenure at the Museum, she has collaborated on numerous exhibitions and publications. She served as Associate Curator for New York at Its Core, the Museum’s long-term, signature exhibition, which opened in the November of 2016. Most recently, she curated City/Game: Basketball in New York, which opened in February 2020 and Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, which ran from November 2017 to September 2018. Previously, she worked as a researcher, writer, and content manager at the New-York Historical Society. Lilly holds a Ph.D. in American History from New York University and a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan between the years of 1958 and 1985, and examined the convergence of urban design, historic preservation, and public art in that district.