Museums & galleries · Greenwich Village and the West Side
Whitney Museum of American Art
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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- Architecture & design — Stepped outdoor terraces on the Hudson side make the building's circulation partly external.
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