Museums & galleries · Manhattan
American Folk Art Museum
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.
Good for
- Rainy day — Somewhere with an indoor collection to spend an afternoon in. It is in this corpus as listed on the city's cultural organisations register as a museum.
These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.
Sources & verification
- coordinates.latitude
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Point published against this record by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
- coordinates.longitude
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- name
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The register's own title for this record is "American Folk Art Museum"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
- externalIds.sourceRecordId
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The identifier New York City Department of Cultural Affairs gives this record in DCLA Cultural Organizations. Read from the response, never transcribed.
- category
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "Cultural organization".
- neighborhoodId
- DCLA Cultural Organizations (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- 2020 neighborhood tabulation area, from the code published with the record.
Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.
Created from record 1028159 of DCLA Cultural Organizations, retrieved 2026-09-08.
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