23 Best Museums in New York, NY, USA
The sheer number of museums and cultural institutions in New York can boggle the mind—it doesn't have just world-class...
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101, USA
The sister institution to MoMA is no ordinary art museum. Located in a striking Renaissance Revival former public school building in Long Island...
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Rd, Queens, NY 11106, USA
This intimate, meditative museum in Long Island City was conceived and built by Isamu Noguchi himself. Here, his mostly abstract sculptures and...
The Met Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Dr, New York, NY 10040, USA
Located on four acres in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the Met Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is America’s only...
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, USA
Although the New Museum was founded in 1977, it gained renewed attention in 2007 with the opening of its Bowery location—a seven-story building that...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA
For nearly a century and a half, the Met has remained the cultural epicenter of New York City, thanks to forward-thinking exhibits and an extensive...
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, USA
Housed in a 1902 Georgian mansion on the Upper East Side, a visit here is worth it for the collection and also for the building itself, which is one...
Rubin Museum of Art
150 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011, USA
Located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, the Rubin Museum is dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and India. Spanning 1,500 years and 38,000...
National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004, USA
Housed in a former customs house at the southern tip of Manhattan, the National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to preserving and sharing...
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA
Truly one of the world's great natural history museums, the American Museum of Natural History spans four city blocks just across from Central Park....
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, USA
The Guggenheim is a radical departure from the typical museum layout—and from every other building in New York, for that matter. The circular concrete...
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, USA
The Whitney got a major upgrade when it relocated from the Upper East Side to its vastly-expanded Meatpacking headquarters in 2015. It houses 50,000...
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002, USA
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is, as the name implies, a historic tenement house (two, if you want to get technical). On a tour of the...
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA
At 560,000 square feet, Brooklyn Museum is the third largest museum in New York City, and one of the its great institutions. Housed in a Beaux-Arts...
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA
The Colonial-style structure near the top of Central Park was built specifically to house the Museum of the City of New York in 1932 but today the...
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
The Morgan is like a multi-hyphenate millennial—only instead of actress/model/influencer/whatever, it’s museum/library/landmark/historic site/music...
9/11 Memorial & Museum
180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007, USA
Every American should visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum at least once. As you enter the museum, you descend from the street to bedrock level—the...
El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA
Founded in the late 1960s by the artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a group of Puerto Rican artists who were fed up with the lack of representation in...
Museum of Chinese in America
Second Floor, 215 Centre St, New York, NY 10013, USA
On the fringes of NYC's Chinatown, this intimate museum is housed in a modern, Maya Lin-designed space on Centre Street. The collection documents the...
The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA
Located in Midtown Manhattan, the MoMA is larger than it appears as you approach it from the street below. One of the world’s most influential...
New York Transit Museum
99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
The New York Transit Museum, a small museum near Brooklyn's Borough Hall, is in a former subway station; to enter you have to descend from the...
The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave &, E 92nd St, New York, NY 10128, USA
The largest museum of its kind outside of Israel, the Jewish Museum has over 30,000 items in its collection. Spanning Jewish ceremonial art,...
Merchant's House Museum
29 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003, USA
Built in 1832, this intimate house museum is a time capsule of the lives of a wealthy 19th century family, complete with original furnishings,...
Frick Madison
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
The Frick is as grand as it gets. Usually set in the former home of millionaire industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the Frick's holdings are packed with...