The sheer number of museums and cultural institutions in New York can boggle the mind—it doesn't have just world-class museums spanning neighborhoods from the Upper East Side all the way to the Lower East Side; it has entire neighborhoods, like Chelsea, dedicated to smaller galleries. With specialties ranging from Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish art to photography, natural history, and cutting-edge contemporary, there’s truly something for any interest—all you have to do is decide what that is.

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