Museums and Galleries
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park contains examples of almost every artistic endeavour known to man, from modern art to native carvings. Particularly dazzling are the rooms…
The permanent collection at the Frick is probably the finest private collection in America. Any visit to a temporary show must incorporate a wander through its select main galleries - formerly…
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
In the Statue of Liberty's shadow, Ellis Island Immigration Museum honours the 12 million immigrants who landed here from countless countries, between 1892 and 1954. Photographs, archives and…
The Greek and Roman Art Galleries at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Greek and Roman Galleries contain the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere.
Revamped in 2004 by Yoshio Taniguchi, MoMA's spacious and skylit Manhattan galleries contain the world's finest collection of 20th-century art. After browsing Léger's oils, Giacometti's…
One of the USA's most highly-regarded venues for contemporary art, P.S.1 occupies a disused public school in a former industrial district, just across the East River from Manhattan. From…
International Center of Photography
Manhattan's spacious International Center of Photography's huge permanent collection spans photographic history from early gelatin silver to digital colour prints. Other exhibits include…
Rose Center for Earth and Space
At the start of the millennium, the American Museum of Natural History opened the Rose Center for Earth and Space. At a cost of US$300 million, the building's spectacular architecture consists…
The stacked box architecture of the New Museum makes an astonishing landmark within which to hold New York City's only museum exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the…
Based downtown in funky Soho, the Children's Museum of the Arts (CMoA) is not what most of us associate with the word "museum". In fact, abiding by the belief that children learn best by…
Madame Tussaud's New York features some 200 life-size wax models of the world's most famous figures. There are no boundaries at this museum, so you can really get up close and personal. From…
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
This New York museum, built between 1945 and 1947, contains Buddhist art from Tibet, Mongolia, and northern China from the 15th to early 20th centuries. Built in the style of a hillside…
The late Malcom Forbes, successful magazine publisher and a passionate collector, filled this small museum in Greenwich Village with an astonishing array of toys, games and knick-knacks that…
Housed in the ornate 1908 Warburg Mansion on the Upper East Side, the Jewish Museum includes over 28,000 paintings, religious icons and interactive installations. One of the best displays…
The renowned Brooklyn Museum gets all New Yorkers travelling to the suburbs for its five floors of exhibits, which include ancient Egyptian statues, feminist art and American paintings. The…
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens has the largest and most comprehensive collection of film, television and digital media artefacts in America. The collection spans the earliest…
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum, famous in New York for inviting debate with unsettling works by unheard-of artists. It was founded in 1929 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney after the Metropolitan Museum of…
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
With a 367-seat theatre, a museum-grade art gallery and a 907-seat concert hall, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture in the Bronx hosts workshops, concerts, performances, exhibitions and…
American Museum of Natural History
With over 36 million specimens and exhibits, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest in the world, famous for its habitat groups of African, Asian and North American mammals.
With a large panoramic model of New York City as one of its main highlights, the Queens Museum of Art in the New York City Building displays high-quality visual arts and offers a range of…
