Museum ID from "The Americans"

April 8, 2020 4:56 AM

In "Immersion" (S5E8) of "The Americans", the FBI agents meet with a Soviet source in a museum. Where was this scene shot? (Description of the scene inside.)

The museum appears to be in an older building, with wooden floors and white walls. At one point we see a staircase in the background leading to an upper level.

In the scene, the actors walk down the length of a long rectangular gallery with display cases & paintings on the walls. In the middle of the gallery are some display cases containing models of ships. At least a couple of these display cases have a distinctive shape: their glass panes are bowed outwards in the center (i.e., the display case is narrow at the bottom and the top than it is halfway up.)

The show is set in DC, but I believe most of the American filming was done in & around New York.

Any thoughts?

posted by Johnny Assay to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

Best answer: All the displays in the scene seemed to be nautical themed so I took a guess and googled maritime museums in NYC. It looks like it's the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island. The floor-to-ceiling wood window frames and the ship portholes in the background of other photos in google images seem to match.
posted by bluecore at 5:59 AM on April 8, 2020 [4 favorites]

That's definitely correct. Just piping in to say the wide shot at 19:43 matches the hero image in bluecore's link.
posted by thejoshu at 6:06 AM on April 8, 2020