Museums & galleries · Lower Manhattan
The Skyscraper Museum
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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- Architecture & design — A single-subject museum about the building type the city is best known for, at the end of the island where it started.
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