Museums in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Americas, housing over 2 million works spanning 5,000 years of human creativity across 17 curatorial departments and 2 million square feet of gallery space.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks — Frank Lloyd Wright's organic, spiraling rotunda on Fifth Avenue that is itself a work of art rivaling anything inside it.

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's largest and most celebrated science museums, occupying four city blocks on the Upper West Side with 45 permanent exhibition halls.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) houses the world's most important collection of modern and contemporary art, from Van Gogh's *Starry Night* to Warhol's *Campbell's Soup Cans*, in a sleek, recently expanded Midtown building.

The Museum of the City of New York occupies a Georgian Colonial Revival building on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, dedicated to telling the story of New York City through art, photography, objects, and interactive installations.

The Brooklyn Museum is New York's second-largest art museum, housed in a grand Beaux-Arts building in Prospect Park. It holds over 1.5 million works spanning ancient Egyptian art to contemporary American painting.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is a deeply moving tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks. The memorial features two massive reflecting pools in the footprints of the original Twin Towers, while the underground museum houses artifacts and personal stories.

The Frick Collection is an intimate, exquisite art museum housed in the former Gilded Age mansion of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick on the Upper East Side, displaying Old Masters in the setting they were intended for.

The Morgan Library & Museum is an extraordinary museum, library, and cultural center built around the private library of financier J.P. Morgan. It houses rare manuscripts, medieval illuminated books, and Old Master drawings in stunning Gilded Age rooms.

The Cloisters is the Metropolitan Museum's branch for medieval European art and architecture, built from elements of five medieval French cloisters reassembled in Fort Tryon Park at Manhattan's northern tip.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is the preeminent museum dedicated exclusively to 20th and 21st-century American art, housed in a striking Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District.

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is an aircraft carrier turned floating museum docked at Pier 86 on the Hudson River, displaying historic aircraft, a Cold War submarine, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

The National Museum of the American Indian is a free Smithsonian museum housed in the spectacular Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece at the foot of Broadway in Lower Manhattan.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the only museum in the US devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, housed in the magnificent former mansion of industrialist Andrew Carnegie on the Upper East Side.

The Neue Galerie is an intimate museum of early 20th-century German and Austrian art and design, housed in a magnificent 1914 Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue at 86th Street. Its star attraction is Gustav Klimt's golden Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

The New York Transit Museum is housed in a decommissioned 1936 IND subway station in downtown Brooklyn. It is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history.

The New Museum is a contemporary art museum on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, dedicated exclusively to presenting new art and new ideas. Its striking stacked-box building, designed by SANAA, has become a Bowery landmark since opening in 2007.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a museum and school dedicated to photography and visual culture. Its current space on the Lower East Side, opened in 2020, features expansive galleries designed for large-scale photographic exhibitions.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, is the only museum in the US dedicated to the art, history, and technology of film, television, and digital media, housed in a beautifully renovated Art Deco building.

MoMA PS1 is MoMA's cutting-edge contemporary art outpost in a converted public school in Long Island City, Queens. It presents the most experimental, boundary-pushing exhibitions in New York's museum landscape.

The Tenement Museum is a uniquely immersive history museum on the Lower East Side, offering guided tours through meticulously restored apartments in an 1863 tenement building where 7,000 immigrants from over 20 countries once lived.

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is a museum at Columbus Circle dedicated to contemporary craftsmanship across art, design, and jewelry. Housed in a building redesigned by Allied Works Architecture, it occupies a prime position overlooking Central Park.

El Museo del Barrio is a museum of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American art and culture situated at the northern end of Museum Mile, at the gateway to East Harlem (El Barrio). It bridges contemporary art with traditional Caribbean and pre-Columbian works.

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) preserves and presents the history, heritage, and culture of Chinese people in the Americas. The museum occupies a space designed by Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) in a converted machine shop in Chinatown.