Museums & galleries in New York

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American Folk Art Museum

Manhattan

American Folk Art Museum is a cultural organisation in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, New York, listed on the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs register of cultural institutions.

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American Museum of Natural History

Manhattan

American Museum of Natural History is an individually designated New York City landmark in Upper West Side (Central), New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Upper East Side

Cooper Hewitt is the Smithsonian's design museum, occupying Andrew Carnegie's 1902 mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan together with its garden.

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El Museo del Barrio

Upper East Side

El Museo del Barrio on Fifth Avenue is New York's museum of Latin American and Caribbean art, founded in 1969 by artists and educators in East Harlem.

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Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

Staten Island

Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is an individually designated New York City landmark in Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill, New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Historical Museum, Historic Richmond Town

Staten Island

Historical Museum, Historic Richmond Town is an individually designated New York City landmark in Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Mount Vernon Hotel Museum

Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum is an individually designated New York City landmark in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage

Lower Manhattan

The Museum of Jewish Heritage stands in Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan and serves as New York's memorial museum to the Holocaust, in a six-sided building of 1997 by Kevin Roche.

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Museum of Modern Art

Midtown Manhattan

The Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street holds one of the principal collections of modern and contemporary art, founded in 1929 and expanded most recently in 2019.

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Museum of the City of New York

Upper East Side

The Museum of the City of New York on upper Fifth Avenue documents the city's history and its people, in a Colonial Revival building of 1932.

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Neue Galerie New York

Upper East Side

Neue Galerie New York on Fifth Avenue holds German and Austrian art and design of the early twentieth century, in a 1914 mansion by Carrere and Hastings.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Upper East Side

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side, holding a collection of modern and contemporary art. Its building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Tenement Museum

Lower Manhattan

The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street presents the histories of migrant families who lived in two Lower East Side tenement buildings between the 1860s and the 2000s, seen on guided tours of restored apartments.

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The Frick Collection

Upper East Side

The Frick Collection occupies Henry Clay Frick's 1914 mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and holds his collection of European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, reopening in 2025 after a major renovation.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Upper East Side

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum on Fifth Avenue at the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan. It was founded in 1870 and its main building has been extended repeatedly since opening on the site in 1880.

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The Morgan Library & Museum

Midtown Manhattan

The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Avenue holds J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of manuscripts, rare books and drawings in his 1906 library by McKim, Mead and White, with a 2006 extension by Renzo Piano.

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The Skyscraper Museum

Lower Manhattan

The Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City is devoted to the study of high-rise buildings, presenting the history and engineering of tall construction in New York and elsewhere.

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Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden

Queens

Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is an individually designated New York City landmark in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, New York, protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Whitney Museum of American Art

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Whitney Museum of American Art stands at the southern end of the High Line in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, in a building by Renzo Piano opened in 2015, and holds a collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art.

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